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  • 1
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    s.l. : American Chemical Society
    Biochemistry 20 (1981), S. 1262-1267 
    ISSN: 1520-4995
    Source: ACS Legacy Archives
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
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  • 2
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    s.l. : American Chemical Society
    Inorganic chemistry 31 (1992), S. 4160-4163 
    ISSN: 1520-510X
    Source: ACS Legacy Archives
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1550-7408
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: . Arginine kinase catalyzes the transphosphorylation between phosphoarginine and ADP. Phosphoarginine is involved in temporal ATP buffering and inorganic phosphate regulation. Trypanosoma cruzi arginine kinase phosphorylates only L-arginine (specific activity 398.9 mUE-min−1 mg−1), and is inhibited by the arginine analogs, agmatine, canavanine, nitroarginine, and homoarginine. Canavanine and homoarginine also produce a significant inhibition of the epimastigote culture growth (79.7% and 55.8%, respectively). Inhibition constants were calculated for canavanine and homoarginine (7.55 and 6.02 mM, respectively). In addition, two novel guanidino kinase activities were detected in the epimastigote soluble extract. The development of the arginine kinase inhibitors of T. cruzi could be an important feature because the phosphagens biosynthetic pathway in trypanosomatids is different from the one in their mammalian hosts.
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  • 4
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    The @journal of eukaryotic microbiology 49 (2002), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1550-7408
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: . This work reports the characterization of an arginine kinase in the unicellular parasitic flagellate Trypanosoma brucei, the etiological agent of human sleeping sickness and Nagana in livestock. The arginine kinase activity, detected in the soluble fraction obtained from procyclic forms, had a specific activity similar to that observed in Trypanosoma cruzi, about 0.2 μmol min−1mg−1. Western blot analysis of T. brucei extracts revealed two bands of 40 and 45 kDa. The putative gene sequence of this enzyme had an open reading frame for a 356-amino acid polypeptide, one less than the equivalent enzyme of T. cruzi. The deduced amino acid sequence has an 82% identity with the arginine kinase of T. cruzi, and highest amino acid identities of both trypanosomatids sequences, about 70%, were with arginine kinases from the phylum Arthropoda. In addition, the amino acid sequence possesses the five arginine residues critical for interaction with ATP as well as two glutamic acids and one cysteine required for arginine binding. The finding in trypanosomatids of a new phosphagen biosynthetic pathway, which is not present in mammalian host tissues, suggests this enzyme as a possible target for chemotherapy.
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    The @journal of eukaryotic microbiology 46 (1999), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1550-7408
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Interaction between factors from Trypanosoma cruzi extracts and AP-1 sequences was studied by electrophoretic mobility shift assays. Using a double-stranded probe carrying the AP-1 sequence from the SV40 promoter, three specific complexes designated A, B, and C were detected. Complexes A and C were formed when using single-stranded probes. The relative amount of complex B, specific for double-stranded DNA, increased as a function of probe length. Complexes were stabilized by cross-linking with UVC irradiation and resolved on denaturing SDS-PAGE. Complex A generated bands of 60- and 39 kDa; complex B produced two bands of 46- and 43 kDa; and complex C generated one band of 43 kDa. The AP-I binding activity was much higher in purified nuclear preparations than in soluble fractions, and was detected in crude extracts from the three forms of the parasite. The binding signal, however, was much stronger in amastigote and trypomastigote than in the epimastigote forms. Specific binding was increased by oxidative stress. Antibodies raised against peptides corresponding to conserved domains of mammalian c-Jun and c-Fos detected bands of 40- and 60 kDa, respectively, in a nuclear epimastigote preparation.
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    The @journal of eukaryotic microbiology 44 (1997), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1550-7408
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: . Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigote motility can be enhanced by addition of L-arginine, to the culture. This effect is blocked by N-methyl-L-arginine, a competitive inhibitor of the nitric oxide synthase. N-methyl-D-aspartate and L-glutamate, two agonists of the NMDALglutamate receptor, also enhanced motility. This stimulation is blocked by MK-801 a noncompetitive antagonist of the NMDA receptor. In addition, sodium nitroprusside, a guanylyl cyclase stimulator and 8-Br-cyclic GMP, an analog of cyclic GMP, also stimulated epimastigote motility. It is suggested that an increase of intracellular cyclic GMP levels mediated by nitric oxide may be responsible for the increase in epimastigote motility.
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  • 7
    ISSN: 1550-7408
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: . Differential display of mRNAs from Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigote and metacyclic trypomastigote stages showed several mRNA species differing in their expression level. The cDNA corresponding to one of these mRNAs was used as a probe in Northern blots and identified a RNA product of 2.6 kb with an expression level eight or more times higher in trypomastigotes than in epimastigotes. This probe was also used to screen a genomic library of T. cruzi CL Brener clone prepared in lambda FIX. A clone of about 15 kb was selected that, after partial sequencing, revealed an open reading frame of 688 amino acids encoding a deduced protein with similarity to RNA helicases of the DEAD-box gene family. The presence of the eight conserved motifs characteristic of the DEAD protein family was observed in the T. cruzi sequence, indicating that it corresponds to a putative RNA helicase gene, which we named HelTc. Southern blot analysis indicated that HelTc is a single-copy gene. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis separation of chromosomes of several isolates of T. cruzi showed that this gene was localized in one or two chromosomal bands.
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    The @journal of eukaryotic microbiology 46 (1999), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1550-7408
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: A very specific L-arginine transporter showing high affinity has been characterized in Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigotes. Uptake was found to be dependent on L-arginine concentration and it was saturable. Values for maximum velocity and Km ranged between 48.1-57.5 pmol·min-1 per 3 times 10- cells and between 4.2-5.5 μM, respectively. the calculated activation energy and Q10 were 31.1 KJ·mol-1, and 1.7, respectively. Uptake velocity significantly increased when cells were preincubated in the absence of L-arginine, Cells retained the labeled amino acid independently of the presence or absence of exogenous L-arginine. the specificity of L-arginine uptake was demonstrated by competition assays in the presence of 80-fold molar excess of natural amino acids and several L-arginine derivatives. the highest levels of inhibition were caused by L-homoarginine, D-arginine, L-canavanine, L-ornithine, and L-citrulline. L-arginine uptake by T. cruzi epimastigotes was not affected by the presence of potassium or sodium ions in the incubation mixture or by pH changes in the range between 5.5-8.5. the major product of L-arginine uptake was characterized as phosphoarginine. Moreover, arginine kinase activity was detected in soluble extracts from T. cruzi epimastigotes.
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  • 9
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    The @journal of eukaryotic microbiology 44 (1997), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1550-7408
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: . Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes survive inside macrophages by promoting fusion between the parasitophorous vacuole and mature host lysosomes upon internalization. Since trypomastigotes can evade the lytic pathway, the earliest steps of endocytosis, such as early endosome fusion, may be affected. To test this hypothesis, we used an in vitro early endosome fusion assay. Our results show that trypomastigote-infected macrophage cytosols cannot promote fusion between early endosomes, compared to mock-infected cytosols (heat-killed trypomastigotes were used in the parasite-macrophage interaction assay). GTPγS addition potentiates the fusogenic activity driven by trypomastigote-infected macrophage cytosol-mediated assays, unlike the biphasic fusogenic effect obtained with GTPγS treatment of macrophage cytosol controls. Calcium-stimulated early endosome fusogenic processes are not affected in the assays mediated by infected macrophage cytosol. We conclude that GTP-regulated factors, and not calcium-regulated elements, are involved in the inhibition of the early endosome fusogenic process by the trypomastigote-infected macrophage cytosol. This primary impediment to the progress of a normal endocytosis may be a relevant step required for the lysosomal recruitment-fusion of the host lysosmes upon trypomastigote infection and further survival of the parasite within its host.
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    The @journal of eukaryotic microbiology 42 (1995), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1550-7408
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: . Phytomonas sp. membranes have an adenylyl cyclase activity which is greater in the presence of Mn2+ than with Mg2+. The Mg2+ and Mn2+ activity ratio varies from one membrane preparation to another, suggesting that the adenylyl cyclase has a variable activation state. A [35S]GTP-γ-S-binding activity with a Kd of 171 nM was detected in Phytomonas membranes. Incubation of these membranes with activated cholera or pertussis toxin and [adenylate 32P]NAD+ led to incorporation of radioactivity into bands of about 40–44 kDa. Crude membranes were electrophoresed on SDS-polyacrylamide gels and analyzed, by Western blotting, with the 9188 anti-αs antibody and the AS/7 antibody (anti-α1, anti-αi1, anti-αi2). These procedures resulted in the identification of polypeptides of approximately 40–44 kDa. Phytomonas adenylyl cyclase could be activated by treatment of membrane preparations with cholera toxin, in the presence of NAD+, while similar treatment with pertussis toxin did not affect this enzyme activity. These studies indicate that in Phytomonas, adenylyl cyclase activity is coupled to an unknown receptor entity through Gαs, proteins.
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