Enzymes of Purine Salvage Pathway in Trypanosoma brucei and Trypanocidal Action of Acyclic Nucleoside Phosphonates

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Enzymes of Purine Salvage Pathway in Trypanosoma brucei and Trypanocidal Action of Acyclic Nucleoside Phosphonates

Original language description

Trypanosoma brucei is a medically and veterinary important protozoan parasite. Since commonly used drugs are toxic and inefficient against the diseases caused by this pathogen, it is necessary to search for new therapeutic alternatives. Unlike mammals, T. brucei cannot synthesize purines de novo and it depends strictly on the uptake of these essential molecules from its environment. To transform, interconvert and metabolize purines, complex and versatile purine salvage pathway (PSP) has evolved in these purine auxotrophs. Hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HGPRT) and xanthine PRT (XPRT) are two key enzymes of the redundant PSP in T. brucei. RNAi silencing of the glycosomal XPRT led to a strong growth phenotype in the media containing only xanthine while no growth phenotype was observed when hypoxanthine was added. RNAi silencing of the cytosolic HGPRT resulted in slight phenotype in the media containing hypoxanthine suggesting that XPRT can also act on hypoxanthine when HGPRT is ablated. Moreover, the double-knock down of HGPRT/XPRT was lethal when 6-oxo purines were the only purine sources in the media implying that no other enzymes can circumvent the action of PRTs. In vitro studies confirmed affinity of the recombinant HGPRT to hypoxanthine or guanine and not to xanthine. Moreover, we screened nearly 100 acyclic nucleoside phosphonates (ANPs), which are potential inhibitors of HGPRT and XPRT. Some of the ANPs have the effective 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) in the single jM values. The mode of action of these drugs was studied using a cell line overexpressing the v5-tagged HGPRT suggesting that ANPs binds to and inhibit the activity of the HGPRT enzyme.

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Czech description

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10608 - Biochemistry and molecular biology

Project

<a href="/en/project/LL1205" target="_blank" >LL1205: Exploration of the unique charakters od the Trypanosoma brucei FoF1 ATP synthase complex for future drug development against african sleeping sickness.</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů