An enhanced toolkit for the generation of knockout and marker-free fluorescent Plasmodium chabaudi
Autor: | Edward J. Marr, Burcu Anar, David A. Baker, Ellen Bushell, Jason P. Mooney, Philip J Spence, Oliver Billker, Wiebke Nahrendorf, Joanne Thompson, Rachel M Milne, Julian C. Rayner, Frank Schwach, Deirdre Cunningham, Jean Langhorne, Gareth Girling |
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Přispěvatelé: | Mooney, Jason P [0000-0002-2824-124X], Nahrendorf, Wiebke [0000-0002-4503-8761], Langhorne, Jean [0000-0002-2257-9733], Billker, Oliver [0000-0003-1716-168X], Thompson, Joanne [0000-0002-3343-2278], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository |
Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
030231 tropical medicine
malaria Virulence Medicine (miscellaneous) Transfection Plasmodium General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Schizogony Plasmodium chabaudi 03 medical and health sciences Plasmid 0302 clinical medicine PlasmoGem parasitic diseases Parasite hosting Gene 030304 developmental biology 0303 health sciences biology Articles Method Article biology.organism_classification Cell biology 3. Good health Malaria |
Zdroj: | Marr, E J, Milne, R M, Anar, B, Girling, G, Schwach, F, Mooney, J P, Nahrendorf, W, Spence, P J, Cunningham, D, Baker, D A, Langhorne, J, Rayner, J C, Billker, O, Bushell, E S & Thompson, J 2020, ' An enhanced toolkit for the generation of knockout and marker-free fluorescent Plasmodium chabaudi ', Wellcome Open Research, vol. 5, pp. 71 . https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15587.2 Wellcome Open Research |
ISSN: | 2398-502X |
DOI: | 10.17863/cam.54164 |
Popis: | The rodent parasite Plasmodium chabaudi is an important in vivo model of malaria. The ability to produce chronic infections makes it particularly useful for investigating the development of anti-Plasmodium immunity, as well as features associated with parasite virulence during both the acute and chronic phases of infection. P. chabaudi also undergoes asexual maturation (schizogony) and erythrocyte invasion in culture, so offers an experimentally-amenable in vivo to in vitro model for studying gene function and drug activity during parasite replication. To extend the usefulness of this model, we have further optimised transfection protocols and plasmids for P. chabaudi and generated stable, fluorescent lines that are free from drug-selectable marker genes. These mother-lines show the same infection dynamics as wild-type parasites throughout the lifecycle in mice and mosquitoes; furthermore, their virulence can be increased by serial blood passage and reset by mosquito transmission. We have also adapted the large-insert, linear PlasmoGEM vectors that have revolutionised the scale of experimental genetics in another rodent malaria parasite and used these to generate barcoded P. chabaudi gene-deletion and –tagging vectors for transfection in our fluorescent P. chabaudi mother-lines. This produces a tool-kit of P. chabaudi lines, vectors and transfection approaches that will be of broad utility to the research community. |
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