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. 2017 Jan;19(1):55-61.
doi: 10.1016/j.micinf.2016.08.003. Epub 2016 Aug 20.

Decreased cruzipain and gp85/trans-sialidase family protein expression contributes to loss of Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigote virulence

Juan San Francisco  1 , Iván Barría  2 , Bessy Gutiérrez  1 , Iván Neira  1 , Christian Muñoz  1 , Hernán Sagua  1 , Jorge E Araya  1 , Juan Carlos Andrade  1 , Anibal Zailberger  3 , Alejandro Catalán  1 , Francisco Remonsellez  4 , José Luis Vega  2 , Jorge González  5
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Decreased cruzipain and gp85/trans-sialidase family protein expression contributes to loss of Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigote virulence

Juan San Francisco et al. Microbes Infect. 2017 Jan.
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Abstract

Two cell lines derived from a single Trypanosoma cruzi clone by long-term passaging generated a highly virulent (C8C3hvir) and a low virulent (C8C3lvir) cell line. The C8C3hvir cell line was highly infective and lethal to Balb/c mice, and the C8C3lvir cell line was three- to five-fold less infective to mouse cardiomyocytes than C8C3hvir. The highly virulent T. cruzi cell line abundantly expressed the major cysteine proteinase cruzipain (Czp), complement regulatory protein (CRP) and trans-sialidase (TS), all of which are known to act as virulence factors in this parasite. The in vitro invasion capacity and in vivo Balb/c mouse infectiveness of the highly virulent strain was strongly reduced by pre-treatment with antisense oligonucleotides _targeting TS or CRP or with E64d. Based on these results, we conclude that decreased levels of TS, CRP and Czp expression could contribute to loss of T. cruzi trypomastigote virulence.

Keywords: Cruzipain; Genetically related cell lines; Gp85/trans-sialidase family; Trypanosoma cruzi; Virulence.

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