The antimalarial drug primaquine targets Fe–S cluster proteins and yeast respiratory growth

Malaria is a major health burden in tropical and subtropical countries. The antimalarial drug primaquine is extremely useful for killing the transmissible gametocyte forms of Plasmodium falciparum and the hepatic quiescent forms of P. vivax. Yet its mechanism of action is still poorly understood. In...

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Main Authors: Lalève, Anaïs, Vallieres, Cindy, Golinelli-Cohen, Marie-Pierre, Bouton, Cécile, Song, Zehua, Pawlik, Grzegorz, Tindall, Sarah M., Avery, Simon V., Clain, Jérôme, Meunier, Brigitte
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author Lalève, Anaïs
Vallieres, Cindy
Golinelli-Cohen, Marie-Pierre
Bouton, Cécile
Song, Zehua
Pawlik, Grzegorz
Tindall, Sarah M.
Avery, Simon V.
Clain, Jérôme
Meunier, Brigitte
author_facet Lalève, Anaïs
Vallieres, Cindy
Golinelli-Cohen, Marie-Pierre
Bouton, Cécile
Song, Zehua
Pawlik, Grzegorz
Tindall, Sarah M.
Avery, Simon V.
Clain, Jérôme
Meunier, Brigitte
author_sort Lalève, Anaïs
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description Malaria is a major health burden in tropical and subtropical countries. The antimalarial drug primaquine is extremely useful for killing the transmissible gametocyte forms of Plasmodium falciparum and the hepatic quiescent forms of P. vivax. Yet its mechanism of action is still poorly understood. In this study, we used the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae model to help uncover the mode of action of primaquine. We found that the growth inhibitory effect of primaquine was restricted to cells that relied on respiratory function to proliferate and that deletion of SOD2 encoding the mitochondrial superoxide dismutase severely increased its effect, which can be countered by the overexpression of AIM32 and MCR1 encoding mitochondrial enzymes involved in the response to oxidative stress. This indicated that ROS produced by respiratory activity had a key role in primaquine-induced growth defect. We observed that Δsod2 cells treated with primaquine displayed a severely decreased activity of aconitase that contains a Fe–S cluster notoriously sensitive to oxidative damage. We also showed that in vitro exposure to primaquine impaired the activity of purified aconitase and accelerated the turnover of the Fe–S cluster of the essential protein Rli1. It is suggested that ROS-labile Fe–S groups are the primary targets of primaquine. Aconitase activity is known to be essential at certain life-cycle stages of the malaria parasite. Thus primaquine-induced damage of its labile Fe–S cluster – and of other ROS-sensitive enzymes – could inhibit parasite development.
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spelling nottingham-403462020-05-04T20:03:14Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40346/ The antimalarial drug primaquine targets Fe–S cluster proteins and yeast respiratory growth Lalève, Anaïs Vallieres, Cindy Golinelli-Cohen, Marie-Pierre Bouton, Cécile Song, Zehua Pawlik, Grzegorz Tindall, Sarah M. Avery, Simon V. Clain, Jérôme Meunier, Brigitte Malaria is a major health burden in tropical and subtropical countries. The antimalarial drug primaquine is extremely useful for killing the transmissible gametocyte forms of Plasmodium falciparum and the hepatic quiescent forms of P. vivax. Yet its mechanism of action is still poorly understood. In this study, we used the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae model to help uncover the mode of action of primaquine. We found that the growth inhibitory effect of primaquine was restricted to cells that relied on respiratory function to proliferate and that deletion of SOD2 encoding the mitochondrial superoxide dismutase severely increased its effect, which can be countered by the overexpression of AIM32 and MCR1 encoding mitochondrial enzymes involved in the response to oxidative stress. This indicated that ROS produced by respiratory activity had a key role in primaquine-induced growth defect. We observed that Δsod2 cells treated with primaquine displayed a severely decreased activity of aconitase that contains a Fe–S cluster notoriously sensitive to oxidative damage. We also showed that in vitro exposure to primaquine impaired the activity of purified aconitase and accelerated the turnover of the Fe–S cluster of the essential protein Rli1. It is suggested that ROS-labile Fe–S groups are the primary targets of primaquine. Aconitase activity is known to be essential at certain life-cycle stages of the malaria parasite. Thus primaquine-induced damage of its labile Fe–S cluster – and of other ROS-sensitive enzymes – could inhibit parasite development. Elsevier 2016-04 Article PeerReviewed Lalève, Anaïs, Vallieres, Cindy, Golinelli-Cohen, Marie-Pierre, Bouton, Cécile, Song, Zehua, Pawlik, Grzegorz, Tindall, Sarah M., Avery, Simon V., Clain, Jérôme and Meunier, Brigitte (2016) The antimalarial drug primaquine targets Fe–S cluster proteins and yeast respiratory growth. Redox Biology, 7 . pp. 21-29. ISSN 2213-2317 Mitochondria; Malaria; Aconitase; Sod2; Oxidative stress; Yeast model; Primaquine http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213231715001597 doi:10.1016/j.redox.2015.10.008 doi:10.1016/j.redox.2015.10.008
spellingShingle Mitochondria; Malaria; Aconitase; Sod2; Oxidative stress; Yeast model; Primaquine
Lalève, Anaïs
Vallieres, Cindy
Golinelli-Cohen, Marie-Pierre
Bouton, Cécile
Song, Zehua
Pawlik, Grzegorz
Tindall, Sarah M.
Avery, Simon V.
Clain, Jérôme
Meunier, Brigitte
The antimalarial drug primaquine targets Fe–S cluster proteins and yeast respiratory growth
title The antimalarial drug primaquine targets Fe–S cluster proteins and yeast respiratory growth
title_full The antimalarial drug primaquine targets Fe–S cluster proteins and yeast respiratory growth
title_fullStr The antimalarial drug primaquine targets Fe–S cluster proteins and yeast respiratory growth
title_full_unstemmed The antimalarial drug primaquine targets Fe–S cluster proteins and yeast respiratory growth
title_short The antimalarial drug primaquine targets Fe–S cluster proteins and yeast respiratory growth
title_sort antimalarial drug primaquine targets fe–s cluster proteins and yeast respiratory growth
topic Mitochondria; Malaria; Aconitase; Sod2; Oxidative stress; Yeast model; Primaquine
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