Probing the molecular mechanism of aggressive infection by antimony resistant Leishmania donovani.

Autor: Mukherjee B; CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India; School of Medical Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, India., Mukherjee K; CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India., Nanda P; School of Medical Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, India., Mukhopadhayay R; CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India., Ravichandiran V; National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research, Kolkata 700054, India., Bhattacharyya SN; CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India. Electronic address: suvendra@iicb.res.in., Roy S; CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India; National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research, Kolkata 700054, India. Electronic address: drsyamalroy@yahoo.com.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Cytokine [Cytokine] 2021 Sep; Vol. 145, pp. 155245. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Aug 26.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cyto.2020.155245
Abstrakt: The disease visceral leishmaniasis (VL) or kala azar is caused by the protozoan parasite, Leishmania donovani (LD). For many decades the pentavalent antimonial drugs countered the successive epidemics of the disease in the Indian sub-continent and elsewhere. With time, antimony resistant LD (LD R ) developed and the drug in turn lost its efficacy. Infection of mammals with LD R gives rise to aggressive infection as compared to its sensitive counterpart (LD S ) coupled with higher surge of IL-10 and TGF-β. The IL-10 causes upregulation of multidrug resistant protein-1 which causes efflux of antimonials from LD R infected cells. This is believed to be a key mechanism of antimony resistance. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are tiny post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression in mammalian cells and in macrophage play a pivotal role in controlling the expression of cytokines involved in infection process. Therefore, a change in miRNA profiles of macrophages infected with LD S or LD R could explain the differential cytokine response observed. Interestingly, the outcome of LD infection is also governed by the critical balance of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines which is inturn regulated by miRNA-Ago2 or miRNP complex and its antagonist RNA binding protein HuR. Here Ago2 plays the fulcrum whose phosphorylation and de-phosphorylation dictates the process; which in turn is controlled by PP2A and HuR. LD S and LD R upregulate PP2A and downregulate HuR at different magnitude leading to various levels of anti-inflammatory to proinflammatory cytokine production and resulting pathology in the host. While ectopic HuR expression alone is sufficient to clear LD S infection, simultaneous upregulation of HuR and inhibition of PP2A is required to inhibit LD R mediated infection. Therefore, tampering with miRNA pathway could be a new strategy to control infection caused by LD R parasite.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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