PMID: 3773936Oct 1, 1986Paper

Membrane potential of erythrocytic stages of Plasmodium chabaudi free of the host cell membrane

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology
R B MikkelsenE A Nillni

Abstract

Free parasites were isolated from Plasmodium chabaudi-infected rat erythrocytes by N2-cavitation and purified on Percoll gradients. The membrane potential of the free parasites determined from the transmembrane distribution of the lipophilic cation, tetraphenylphosphonium, was -93 +/- 10 mV for late stage parasites and -90 +/- 3 mV for ring forms. Studies with intact infected erythrocytes demonstrated that the membrane potential of ring forms was much smaller compared to late trophozoites and schizonts and thus the present findings with free parasites suggest that host cell cytoplasmic factors may determine the magnitude of the parasite membrane potential. Both extracellular pH and [Na+] were found to modify the membrane potential of free parasites. Electrogenic protonophores, the H+-ATPase inhibitor dicyclohexylcarbodiimide and orthovanadate collapsed the potential of free parasites. Ouabain (or its membrane permeant derivative, strophanthidin), and oligomycin were without effect. These inhibitor studies suggest that an electrogenic H+-ATPase similar to that found in yeast generates in part the membrane potential of malaria parasites. Using weak acid distribution or a pH sensitive fluorescent dye, it was demonstrated that free...Continue Reading

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