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Cell Rep ; 42(11): 113419, 2023 11 28.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37952150

ABSTRACT

Plasmodium parasites contribute to one of the highest global infectious disease burdens. To achieve this success, the parasite has evolved a range of specialized subcellular compartments to extensively remodel the host cell for its survival. The information to fully understand these compartments is likely hidden in the so far poorly characterized Plasmodium species spatial proteome. To address this question, we determined the steady-state subcellular location of more than 12,000 parasite proteins across five different species by extensive subcellular fractionation of erythrocytes infected by Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium knowlesi, Plasmodium yoelii, Plasmodium berghei, and Plasmodium chabaudi. This comparison of the pan-species spatial proteomes and their expression patterns indicates increasing species-specific proteins associated with the more external compartments, supporting host adaptations and post-transcriptional regulation. The spatial proteome offers comprehensive insight into the different human, simian, and rodent Plasmodium species, establishing a powerful resource for understanding species-specific host adaptation processes in the parasite.


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Malaria , Proteomics , Humans , Malaria/parasitology , Proteome/metabolism , Plasmodium berghei/metabolism , Erythrocytes/parasitology
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J Med Chem ; 61(8): 3660-3673, 2018 04 26.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29578710

ABSTRACT

FK506-binding proteins (FKBPs) are evolutionarily conserved proteins that display peptidyl-prolyl isomerase activities and act as coreceptors for immunosuppressants. Microbial macrophage-infectivity-potentiator (Mip)-type FKBPs can enhance infectivity. However, developing druglike ligands for FKBPs or Mips has proven difficult, and many FKBPs and Mips still lack biologically useful ligands. To explore the scope and potential of C5-substituted [4.3.1]-aza-bicyclic sulfonamides as a broadly applicable class of FKBP inhibitors, we developed a new synthesis method for the bicyclic core scaffold and used it to prepare an FKBP- and Mip-focused library. This allowed us to perform a systematic structure-activity-relationship analysis across key human FKBPs and microbial Mips, yielding highly improved inhibitors for all the FKBPs studied. A cocrystal structure confirmed the molecular-binding mode of the core structure and explained the affinity gained as a result of the preferred substituents. The best FKBP and Mip ligands showed promising antimalarial, antileginonellal, and antichlamydial properties in cellular models of infectivity, suggesting that substituted [4.3.1]-aza-bicyclic sulfonamides could be a novel class of anti-infectives.


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Azabicyclo Compounds/pharmacology , Sulfonamides/pharmacology , Tacrolimus Binding Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors , Azabicyclo Compounds/chemical synthesis , Azabicyclo Compounds/chemistry , Azabicyclo Compounds/metabolism , Candida albicans/drug effects , Chlamydia trachomatis/drug effects , HeLa Cells , Humans , Legionella pneumophila/drug effects , Molecular Structure , Plasmodium falciparum/drug effects , Protein Binding , Structure-Activity Relationship , Sulfonamides/chemical synthesis , Sulfonamides/chemistry , Sulfonamides/metabolism , Tacrolimus Binding Proteins/metabolism
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Sci Rep ; 3: 2176, 2013.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23846290

ABSTRACT

Mechanical forces are critical to modulate cell spreading, contractility, gene expression, and even stem cell differentiation. Yet, existing tools that can apply controllable subcellular forces to a large number of single cells simultaneously are still limited. Here we report a novel ultrasound tweezing cytometry utilizing ultrasound pulses to actuate functionalized lipid microbubbles covalently attached to single live cells to exert mechanical forces in the pN - nN range. Ultrasonic excitation of microbubbles could elicit a rapid and sustained reactive intracellular cytoskeleton contractile force increase in different adherent mechanosensitive cells. Further, ultrasound-mediated intracellular cytoskeleton contractility enhancement was dose-dependent and required an intact actin cytoskeleton as well as RhoA/ROCK signaling. Our results demonstrated the great potential of ultrasound tweezing cytometry technique using functionalized microbubbles as an actuatable, biocompatible, and multifunctional agent for biomechanical stimulations of cells.


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Cytoskeleton/metabolism , Sound , Stress, Mechanical , Actins/metabolism , Animals , Calcium/metabolism , Cell Line , Cell Membrane/metabolism , Humans , Mice , Microscopy, Fluorescence , Myosin Type II/metabolism , Shear Strength , Signal Transduction , Time-Lapse Imaging , rhoA GTP-Binding Protein/metabolism
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