Chimerization at the AQP2-AQP3 locus is the genetic basis of melarsoprol-pentamidine cross-resistance in clinical Trypanosoma brucei gambiense isolates

Aquaglyceroporin-2 is a known determinant of melarsoprol-pentamidine cross-resistance in Trypanosoma brucei brucei laboratory strains. Recently, chimerization at the AQP2-AQP3 tandem locus was described from melarsoprol-pentamidine cross-resistant Trypanosoma brucei gambiense isolates from sleeping sickness patients in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Here, we demonstrate that reintroduction of wild-type AQP2 into one of these isolates fully restores drug susceptibility while expression of the chimeric AQP2/3 gene in aqp2-aqp3 null T. b. brucei does not. This proves that AQP2-AQP3 chimerization is the cause of melarsoprol-pentamidine cross-resistance in the T. b. gambiense isolates.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:5

Enthalten in:

International journal for parasitology. Drugs and drug resistance - 5(2015), 2 vom: 01. Aug., Seite 65-8

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Graf, Fabrice E [VerfasserIn]
Baker, Nicola [VerfasserIn]
Munday, Jane C [VerfasserIn]
de Koning, Harry P [VerfasserIn]
Horn, David [VerfasserIn]
Mäser, Pascal [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

158801-98-0
673LC5J4LQ
Aquaporin
Aquaporin 2
Aquaporin 3
Drug resistance
Human African trypanosomiasis
Journal Article
Melarsoprol
Pentamidine
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Reverse genetics
Sleeping sickness
Trypanocidal Agents
Trypanosoma brucei gambiense
ZF3786Q2E8

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Date Completed 17.05.2016

Date Revised 10.07.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ijpddr.2015.04.002

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM249645513