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    Success and virulence in Toxoplasma as the result of sexual recombination between two distinct ancestries (2001)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2001-10-06
    Description: Toxoplasma gondii is a common human pathogen causing serious, even fatal, disease in the developing fetus and in immunocompromised patients. Despite its ability to reproduce sexually and its broad geographic and host range, Toxoplasma has a clonal population structure comprised principally of three lines. We have analyzed 15 polymorphic loci in the archetypal type I, II, and III strains and found that polymorphism was limited to, at most, two rather than three allelic classes and no polymorphism was detected between alleles in strains of a given type. Multilocus analysis of 10 nonarchetypal isolates likewise clustered the vast majority of alleles into the same two distinct ancestries. These data strongly suggest that the currently predominant genotypes exist as a pandemic outbreak from a genetic mixing of two discrete ancestral lines. To determine if such mixing could lead to the extreme virulence observed for some strains, we examined the F(1) progeny of a cross between a type II and III strain, both of which are relatively avirulent in mice. Among the progeny were recombinants that were at least 3 logs more virulent than either parent. Thus, sexual recombination, by combining polymorphisms in two distinct and competing clonal lines, can be a powerful force driving the natural evolution of virulence in this highly successful pathogen.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Grigg, M E -- Bonnefoy, S -- Hehl, A B -- Suzuki, Y -- Boothroyd, J C -- AI04717/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI21423/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI41014/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2001 Oct 5;294(5540):161-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5124, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11588262" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alleles ; Animals ; Base Sequence ; Crosses, Genetic ; Genes, Protozoan ; Genetic Variation ; Genotype ; Humans ; Introns ; Lethal Dose 50 ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred CBA ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Polymorphism, Genetic ; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ; *Recombination, Genetic ; Toxoplasma/classification/*genetics/isolation & purification/*pathogenicity ; Toxoplasmosis/*parasitology ; Toxoplasmosis, Animal/*parasitology ; Virulence/genetics
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN: 1095-9203
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    Polymorphic secreted kinases are key virulence factors in toxoplasmosis (2006)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2006-12-16
    Description: The majority of known Toxoplasma gondii isolates from Europe and North America belong to three clonal lines that differ dramatically in their virulence, depending on the host. To identify the responsible genes, we mapped virulence in F(1) progeny derived from crosses between type II and type III strains, which we introduced into mice. Five virulence (VIR) loci were thus identified, and for two of these, genetic complementation showed that a predicted protein kinase (ROP18 and ROP16, respectively) is the key molecule. Both are hypervariable rhoptry proteins that are secreted into the host cell upon invasion. These results suggest that secreted kinases unique to the Apicomplexa are crucial in the host-pathogen interaction.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2646183/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2646183/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Saeij, J P J -- Boyle, J P -- Coller, S -- Taylor, S -- Sibley, L D -- Brooke-Powell, E T -- Ajioka, J W -- Boothroyd, J C -- 1R01AI045806-01A1/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI05093/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI059176/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI21423/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI30230/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI36629/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI41014/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- F32AI60306/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI021423/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI021423-20/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI036629/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Dec 15;314(5806):1780-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17170306" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alleles ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Chromosome Mapping ; Chromosomes/genetics ; Crosses, Genetic ; Female ; Genes, Protozoan ; Genetic Complementation Test ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred BALB C ; Mice, Inbred CBA ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis ; *Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ; Protozoan Proteins/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism ; Quantitative Trait Loci ; Toxoplasma/enzymology/*genetics/*pathogenicity ; Toxoplasmosis, Animal/*parasitology ; Virulence ; Virulence Factors/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN: 1095-9203
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    Rapid membrane disruption by a perforin-like protein facilitates parasite exit from host cells (2008)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2008-12-20
    Description: Perforin-like proteins are expressed by many bacterial and protozoan pathogens, yet little is known about their function or mode of action. Here, we describe Toxoplasma perforin-like protein 1 (TgPLP1), a secreted perforin-like protein of the intracellular protozoan pathogen Toxoplasma gondii that displays structural features necessary for pore formation. After intracellular growth, TgPLP1-deficient parasites failed to exit normally, resulting in entrapment within host cells. We show that this defect is due to an inability to rapidly permeabilize the parasitophorous vacuole membrane and host plasma membrane during exit. TgPLP1 ablation had little effect on growth in culture but resulted in a reduction greater than five orders of magnitude of acute virulence in mice. Perforin-like proteins from other intracellular pathogens may play a similar role in microbial egress and virulence.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2662845/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2662845/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kafsack, Bjorn F C -- Pena, Janethe D O -- Coppens, Isabelle -- Ravindran, Sandeep -- Boothroyd, John C -- Carruthers, Vern B -- R01 AI021423/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI046675/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI046675-06/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI046675-07/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI046675-08/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI046675-09/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI46675/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2009 Jan 23;323(5913):530-3. doi: 10.1126/science.1165740. Epub 2008 Dec 18.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19095897" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Calcimycin/pharmacology ; Cell Membrane/*metabolism ; Cell Membrane Permeability ; Cells, Cultured ; Host-Parasite Interactions ; Humans ; Intracellular Membranes/*metabolism ; Ionophores/pharmacology ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Perforin/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Permeability ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Protozoan Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Toxoplasma/genetics/growth & development/*metabolism/pathogenicity ; Vacuoles/*metabolism/*parasitology
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
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    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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