Non-linear hierarchy of the quorum sensing signalling pathway in bloodstream form African trypanosomes.
Trypanosoma brucei, the agents of African trypanosomiasis, undergo density-dependent differentiation in the mammalian bloodstream to prepare for transmission by tsetse flies. This involves the generation of cell-cycle arrested, quiescent, stumpy forms from proliferative slender forms. The signalling...
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| author | Lindsay McDonald Mathieu Cayla Alasdair Ivens Binny M Mony Paula MacGregor Eleanor Silvester Kirsty McWilliam Keith R Matthews |
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| description | Trypanosoma brucei, the agents of African trypanosomiasis, undergo density-dependent differentiation in the mammalian bloodstream to prepare for transmission by tsetse flies. This involves the generation of cell-cycle arrested, quiescent, stumpy forms from proliferative slender forms. The signalling pathway responsible for the quorum sensing response has been catalogued using a genome-wide selective screen, providing a compendium of signalling protein kinases phosphatases, RNA binding proteins and hypothetical proteins. However, the ordering of these components is unknown. To piece together these components to provide a description of how stumpy formation arises we have used an extragenic suppression approach. This exploited a combinatorial gene knockout and overexpression strategy to assess whether the loss of developmental competence in null mutants of pathway components could be compensated by ectopic expression of other components. We have created null mutants for three genes in the stumpy induction factor signalling pathway (RBP7, YAK, MEKK1) and evaluated complementation by expression of RBP7, NEK17, PP1-6, or inducible gene silencing of the proposed differentiation inhibitor TbTOR4. This indicated that the signalling pathway is non-linear. Phosphoproteomic analysis focused on one pathway component, a putative MEKK, identified molecules with altered expression and phosphorylation profiles in MEKK1 null mutants, including another component in the pathway, NEK17. Our data provide a first molecular dissection of multiple components in a signal transduction cascade in trypanosomes. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-191e20eb2e3f41c19cc654eac3c608332025-08-20T02:03:51ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Pathogens1553-73661553-73742018-06-01146e100714510.1371/journal.ppat.1007145Non-linear hierarchy of the quorum sensing signalling pathway in bloodstream form African trypanosomes.Lindsay McDonaldMathieu CaylaAlasdair IvensBinny M MonyPaula MacGregorEleanor SilvesterKirsty McWilliamKeith R MatthewsTrypanosoma brucei, the agents of African trypanosomiasis, undergo density-dependent differentiation in the mammalian bloodstream to prepare for transmission by tsetse flies. This involves the generation of cell-cycle arrested, quiescent, stumpy forms from proliferative slender forms. The signalling pathway responsible for the quorum sensing response has been catalogued using a genome-wide selective screen, providing a compendium of signalling protein kinases phosphatases, RNA binding proteins and hypothetical proteins. However, the ordering of these components is unknown. To piece together these components to provide a description of how stumpy formation arises we have used an extragenic suppression approach. This exploited a combinatorial gene knockout and overexpression strategy to assess whether the loss of developmental competence in null mutants of pathway components could be compensated by ectopic expression of other components. We have created null mutants for three genes in the stumpy induction factor signalling pathway (RBP7, YAK, MEKK1) and evaluated complementation by expression of RBP7, NEK17, PP1-6, or inducible gene silencing of the proposed differentiation inhibitor TbTOR4. This indicated that the signalling pathway is non-linear. Phosphoproteomic analysis focused on one pathway component, a putative MEKK, identified molecules with altered expression and phosphorylation profiles in MEKK1 null mutants, including another component in the pathway, NEK17. Our data provide a first molecular dissection of multiple components in a signal transduction cascade in trypanosomes.https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1007145&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Lindsay McDonald Mathieu Cayla Alasdair Ivens Binny M Mony Paula MacGregor Eleanor Silvester Kirsty McWilliam Keith R Matthews Non-linear hierarchy of the quorum sensing signalling pathway in bloodstream form African trypanosomes. PLoS Pathogens |
| title | Non-linear hierarchy of the quorum sensing signalling pathway in bloodstream form African trypanosomes. |
| title_full | Non-linear hierarchy of the quorum sensing signalling pathway in bloodstream form African trypanosomes. |
| title_fullStr | Non-linear hierarchy of the quorum sensing signalling pathway in bloodstream form African trypanosomes. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Non-linear hierarchy of the quorum sensing signalling pathway in bloodstream form African trypanosomes. |
| title_short | Non-linear hierarchy of the quorum sensing signalling pathway in bloodstream form African trypanosomes. |
| title_sort | non linear hierarchy of the quorum sensing signalling pathway in bloodstream form african trypanosomes |
| url | https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1007145&type=printable |
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