کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1936996 1050706 2007 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Participation of macrophage membrane rafts in Trypanosoma cruzi invasion process
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی زیست شیمی
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Participation of macrophage membrane rafts in Trypanosoma cruzi invasion process
چکیده انگلیسی

Membrane rafts are small and dynamic regions enriched in sphingolipids, cholesterol, ganglioside GM1 and protein markers like flotillins, forming the flatter domains or caveolins, which are characterized as stable flask-shape invaginations. We explored whether membrane rafts participate in the entry of Trypanosoma cruzi’s trypomastigotes into murine macrophages through transient depletion of macrophage membrane cholesterol with methyl-beta-cyclodextrin and treatment with filipin. These treatments led to a decrease in the trypomastigote invasion process. Macrophage pre incubated with increasing concentrations of cholera toxin B, that binds GM1, inhibited the adhesion and invasion of trypomastigote and amastigote forms. Immunofluorescence analysis demonstrated a colocalization of GM1, flotillin 1 and caveolin 1 in the T. cruzi parasitophorous vacuole. Taken together these data suggest that membrane rafts, including caveolae, are involved in the process of T. cruzi invasion of macrophages.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications - Volume 363, Issue 3, 23 November 2007, Pages 828–834
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