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Pathogenic Acanthamoeba castellanii Secretes the Extracellular Aminopeptidase M20/M25/M40 Family Protein to Target Cells for Phagocytosis by Disruption

Acanthamoeba is free-living protist pathogen capable of causing a blinding keratitis and granulomatous encephalitis. However, the mechanisms of Acanthamoeba pathogenesis are still not clear. Here, our results show that cells co-cultured with pathogenic Acanthamoeba would be spherical and floated, ev...

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Autores principales: Huang, Jian-Ming, Liao, Chen-Chieh, Kuo, Chung-Ching, Chen, Lih-Ren, Huang, Lynn L. H., Shin, Jyh-Wei, Lin, Wei-Chen
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6149796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29258252
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules22122263
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author Huang, Jian-Ming
Liao, Chen-Chieh
Kuo, Chung-Ching
Chen, Lih-Ren
Huang, Lynn L. H.
Shin, Jyh-Wei
Lin, Wei-Chen
author_facet Huang, Jian-Ming
Liao, Chen-Chieh
Kuo, Chung-Ching
Chen, Lih-Ren
Huang, Lynn L. H.
Shin, Jyh-Wei
Lin, Wei-Chen
author_sort Huang, Jian-Ming
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description Acanthamoeba is free-living protist pathogen capable of causing a blinding keratitis and granulomatous encephalitis. However, the mechanisms of Acanthamoeba pathogenesis are still not clear. Here, our results show that cells co-cultured with pathogenic Acanthamoeba would be spherical and floated, even without contacting the protists. Then, the Acanthamoeba protists would contact and engulf these cells. In order to clarify the contact-independent pathogenesis mechanism in Acanthamoeba, we collected the Acanthamoeba-secreted proteins (Asp) to incubate with cells for identifying the extracellular virulent factors and investigating the cytotoxicity process. The Asps of pathogenic Acanthamoeba express protease activity to reactive Leu amino acid in ECM and induce cell-losing adhesion ability. The M20/M25/M40 superfamily aminopeptidase protein (ACA1_264610), an aminopeptidase be found in Asp, is upregulated after Acanthamoeba and C6 cell co-culturing for 6 h. Pre-treating the Asp with leucine aminopeptidase inhibitor and the specific antibodies of Acanthamoeba M20/M25/M40 superfamily aminopeptidase could reduce the cell damage during Asp and cell co-incubation. These results suggest an important functional role of the Acanthamoeba secreted extracellular aminopeptidases in the Acanthamoeba pathogenesis process. This study provides information regarding clinically pathogenic isolates to target specific molecules and design combined drugs.
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spelling pubmed-61497962018-11-13 Pathogenic Acanthamoeba castellanii Secretes the Extracellular Aminopeptidase M20/M25/M40 Family Protein to Target Cells for Phagocytosis by Disruption Huang, Jian-Ming Liao, Chen-Chieh Kuo, Chung-Ching Chen, Lih-Ren Huang, Lynn L. H. Shin, Jyh-Wei Lin, Wei-Chen Molecules Article Acanthamoeba is free-living protist pathogen capable of causing a blinding keratitis and granulomatous encephalitis. However, the mechanisms of Acanthamoeba pathogenesis are still not clear. Here, our results show that cells co-cultured with pathogenic Acanthamoeba would be spherical and floated, even without contacting the protists. Then, the Acanthamoeba protists would contact and engulf these cells. In order to clarify the contact-independent pathogenesis mechanism in Acanthamoeba, we collected the Acanthamoeba-secreted proteins (Asp) to incubate with cells for identifying the extracellular virulent factors and investigating the cytotoxicity process. The Asps of pathogenic Acanthamoeba express protease activity to reactive Leu amino acid in ECM and induce cell-losing adhesion ability. The M20/M25/M40 superfamily aminopeptidase protein (ACA1_264610), an aminopeptidase be found in Asp, is upregulated after Acanthamoeba and C6 cell co-culturing for 6 h. Pre-treating the Asp with leucine aminopeptidase inhibitor and the specific antibodies of Acanthamoeba M20/M25/M40 superfamily aminopeptidase could reduce the cell damage during Asp and cell co-incubation. These results suggest an important functional role of the Acanthamoeba secreted extracellular aminopeptidases in the Acanthamoeba pathogenesis process. This study provides information regarding clinically pathogenic isolates to target specific molecules and design combined drugs. MDPI 2017-12-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6149796/ /pubmed/29258252 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules22122263 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Huang, Jian-Ming
Liao, Chen-Chieh
Kuo, Chung-Ching
Chen, Lih-Ren
Huang, Lynn L. H.
Shin, Jyh-Wei
Lin, Wei-Chen
Pathogenic Acanthamoeba castellanii Secretes the Extracellular Aminopeptidase M20/M25/M40 Family Protein to Target Cells for Phagocytosis by Disruption
title Pathogenic Acanthamoeba castellanii Secretes the Extracellular Aminopeptidase M20/M25/M40 Family Protein to Target Cells for Phagocytosis by Disruption
title_full Pathogenic Acanthamoeba castellanii Secretes the Extracellular Aminopeptidase M20/M25/M40 Family Protein to Target Cells for Phagocytosis by Disruption
title_fullStr Pathogenic Acanthamoeba castellanii Secretes the Extracellular Aminopeptidase M20/M25/M40 Family Protein to Target Cells for Phagocytosis by Disruption
title_full_unstemmed Pathogenic Acanthamoeba castellanii Secretes the Extracellular Aminopeptidase M20/M25/M40 Family Protein to Target Cells for Phagocytosis by Disruption
title_short Pathogenic Acanthamoeba castellanii Secretes the Extracellular Aminopeptidase M20/M25/M40 Family Protein to Target Cells for Phagocytosis by Disruption
title_sort pathogenic acanthamoeba castellanii secretes the extracellular aminopeptidase m20/m25/m40 family protein to target cells for phagocytosis by disruption
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6149796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29258252
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules22122263
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