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Wichers, Jan Stephan [Author]; van Gelder, Carolina [Author]; Fuchs, Gwendolin [Author]; Ruge, Julia Mareike [Author]; Pietsch, Emma [Author]; Ferreira, Josie L. [Author]; Safavi, Soraya [Author]; von Thien, Heidrun [Author]; Burda, Paul-Christian [Author]; Mesén-Ramirez, Paolo [Author]; Spielmann, Tobias [Author]; Strauss, Jan [Author]; Gilberger, Tim-Wolf [Author]; Bachmann, Anna [Author]; Phillips, Margaret [Author]

Characterization of Apicomplexan Amino Acid Transporters (ApiATs) in the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum

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  • Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Characterization of Apicomplexan Amino Acid Transporters (ApiATs) in the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum
  • Contributor: Wichers, Jan Stephan [Author]; van Gelder, Carolina [Author]; Fuchs, Gwendolin [Author]; Ruge, Julia Mareike [Author]; Pietsch, Emma [Author]; Ferreira, Josie L. [Author]; Safavi, Soraya [Author]; von Thien, Heidrun [Author]; Burda, Paul-Christian [Author]; Mesén-Ramirez, Paolo [Author]; Spielmann, Tobias [Author]; Strauss, Jan [Author]; Gilberger, Tim-Wolf [Author]; Bachmann, Anna [Author]; Phillips, Margaret [Author]
  • Published: American Society for Microbiology, 2021-11-10
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00743-21
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  • Description: During the symptomatic human blood phase, malaria parasites replicate within red blood cells. Parasite proliferation relies on the uptake of nutrients, such as amino acids, from the host cell and blood plasma, requiring transport across multiple membranes. Amino acids are delivered to the parasite through the parasite-surrounding vacuolar compartment by specialized nutrient-permeable channels of the erythrocyte membrane and the parasitophorous vacuole membrane (PVM). However, further transport of amino acids across the parasite plasma membrane (PPM) is currently not well characterized. In this study, we focused on a family of Apicomplexan amino acid transporters (ApiATs) that comprises five members in Plasmodium falciparum. First, we localized four of the P. falciparum ApiATs (PfApiATs) at the PPM using endogenous green fluorescent protein (GFP) tagging. Next, we applied reverse genetic approaches to probe into their essentiality during asexual replication and gametocytogenesis. Upon inducible knockdown and targeted gene disruption, a reduced asexual parasite proliferation was detected for PfApiAT2 and PfApiAT4. Functional inactivation of individual PfApiATs targeted in this study had no effect on gametocyte development. Our data suggest that individual PfApiATs are partially redundant during asexual in vitro proliferation and fully redundant during gametocytogenesis of P. falciparum parasites. IMPORTANCE Malaria parasites live and multiply inside cells. To facilitate their extremely fast intracellular proliferation, they hijack and transform their host cells. This also requires the active uptake of nutrients, such as amino acids, from the host cell and the surrounding environment through various membranes that are the consequence of the parasite’s intracellular lifestyle. In this paper, we focus on a family of putative amino acid transporters termed ApiAT. We show expression and localization of four transporters in the parasite plasma membrane of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes that represent one ...
  • Access State: Open Access