The effect of TAO expression on PCD-like phenomenon development and drug resistance in Trypanosoma brucei

Parasitology International
Akiko TsudaMisao Onuma

Abstract

Drug resistance in Trypanosoma brucei causes severe problems for people and domestic animals, but molecular mechanisms of the resistance are not well known. Programmed cell death (PCD) is a fundamental process in both multicellular and unicellular organisms, and it is speculated to be one of the important factors contributing to the emergence of drug resistance. We have previously reported that the expression of TAO appears to play a role in the inhibition of the PCD-like phenomenon development in T. brucei. In this study, to ascertain the correlation between the development of the PCD-like phenomenon and the expression of TAO in T. brucei, we genetically engineered T. brucei for conditional over-expression of the TAO gene. TAO over-expressing transgenic T. brucei was refractory to the development of the PCD-like phenomenon compared to the wild-type, indicating that expression of TAO might have a regulatory role on PCD development. Furthermore, the transgenic cells showed resistance to suramin and antrycide. We postulated that intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) may be involved in the mechanism of resistance to antrycide because augmentation of ROS in transgenic cells was lower than that in the wild-type cells following...Continue Reading

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