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Global phosphoproteome of Leishmania mexicana developmental stages

ABSTRACT: Using a combination of phosphoproteome enrichment and tandem mass tag (TMT) labelling-based quantitative proteomic mass spectrometry (MS), we robustly identified and quantified 1,833 phosphorylated proteins across three life cycle stages of Leishmania mexicana (L. mexicana) parasite. Protein kinase domain was the most enriched protein domain in the L. mexicana phosphoproteome. Additionally, this study systematically characterised the perturbing effect of HSP90 inhibition on the global phosphoproteome of the L. mexicana across its life cycle stages and showed that the inhibition causes substantially distinct molecular effects in the promastigotes and the amastigotes. While tanespimycin treatment decreased the phosphorylation of HSP90 and its co-chaperon HSP70 in the amastigotes, the opposite effect was observed in the promastigotes. Additionally, our results show that while kinase activity and microtubule motor activity are highly represented in the negatively affected phosphoproteins of the promastigotes, ribosomal proteins, protein folding, and proton channel activity are preferentially enriched in the perturbed amastigote phosphoproteome. Our results also show that RNA helicase domain was distinctively enriched among the positively affected RNA-binding amastigote phosphoproteome. This study reveals the dramatically different ways the HSP90 inhibition stress modulates the phosphoproteome of the pathogenic amastigotes and provides in-depth insight into the scope of selective molecular targeting in the therapeutically relevant amastigotes.

INSTRUMENT(S): LTQ Orbitrap Elite

ORGANISM(S): Leishmania Mexicana Mhom/gt/2001/u1103

SUBMITTER: Karunakaran Kalesh

LAB HEAD: Kalesh Karunakaran

PROVIDER: PXD043002 | Pride | 2023-10-04

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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Project description:Protozoa of the genus Leishmania are the causative agents of leishmaniasis in humans. These parasites cycle between promastigotes in the sand fly mid-gut and amastigotes in phagolysosome of mammalian macrophages. During infection, host up-regulate nitric oxide synthase and parasite induce host arginase expression, both of which use arginine as a substrate. These elevated activities deplete macrophage arginine pools, a situation that invading Leishmania must overcome since it is an essential amino acid. Leishmania donovani imports exogenous arginine via a mono-specific amino acid transporter (AAP3) and utilizes it primarily through the polyamine pathway to provide precursors for trypanothione biosynthesis. Here we report the discovery of a pathway whereby promastigote and amastigote forms of the Leishmania sense the lack of environmental arginine and respond with rapid up-regulation in AAP3 expression and activity, as well as several other transporters. Significantly, this arginine deprivation response is also activated in parasites during macrophage infection. Phosphoproteomic analyses of L. donovani promastigotes have implicated a Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 2 (MPK2)-mediated signaling cascade in this response and L. mexicana mutants lacking MPK2 are unable to respond to arginine deprivation. In this study, we established that Leishmania cells sense the absence of arginine in their environment; both in culture (axenic promastigotes and amastigotes) and in macrophages during infection (amastigotes). This study describes the first amino acid deprivation sensing mechanism and the pathway that transduce this response, and reveals a novel host-pathogen metabolic interplay. Total RNA from Ten Leishmania donovani samples were analyzed using RNA-Seq. Cells from two life stages (promastigotes and amastigotes) were grown in axenic culture in the presence and absense of arginine. For each condition two biological replicates were grown and analyzed. In addition two macrophage grown amastigotes were analyzed.

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Global phosphoproteome of Leishmania mexicana developmental stages

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