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Trans-Signalgebung: ein neuartiger Mechanismus der Leishmania Immun-Evasion im Wirt durch Export von Parasiten-Signal-Proteinen

Fachliche Zuordnung Parasitologie und Biologie der Erreger tropischer Infektionskrankheiten
Zellbiologie
Förderung Förderung von 2013 bis 2017
Projektkennung Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 242589725
 
Erstellungsjahr 2018

Zusammenfassung der Projektergebnisse

Using a combination of pharmacological inhibition and genetic complementation, we analysed the impact of phosphorylation on the function of the major chaperone HSP90 in the context of viability, fitness and infectivity. We find that two phosphorylation sites impact on the in vitro infectivity, but also on the ability of casein kinase 1.2 to use HSP90 as substrate. MAP kinase 1 also uses HSP90 as substrate and shows stable interaction with the HSP90 complex. Using a ribosome profiling strategy, we analysed the impact of HSP90 inhibition on protein synthesis in Leishmania. In keeping with the morphological effects of HSP90 inhibition – promastigote-to-amastigote differentiation – we find a large number stress proteins with elevated synthesis, reflecting the challenges encountered by Leishmania upon transmission to a homeothermic mammalian host and the oxidative challenges inside macrophages. Moreover, we find a downregulation of fatty acid metabolism enzymes, reflecting changes in carbon source usage, and strong upregulation of histones, possibly reflecting a more compact chromatin structure of the amastigote.

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