Influência das proteínas motoras e CK2 no processo de interação Leishmania braziliensis-macrófago.

• Autor(a) principal: Cardoso, Elisama Azevedo
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/14361
• topic: CK2; Myosin Va; Actin; Leishmania braziliensis; CK2; Miosina Va; Actina; Leishmania braziliensis; Leishmania braziliensis; Macrófagos; Actina; Caseína; Miosina Tipo V; CNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::PARASITOLOGIA::PROTOZOOLOGIA DE PARASITOS::PROTOZOOLOGIA PARASITARIA HUMANA

The members of the genus Leishmania are responsible for a group of parasitic diseases that vary from self-limited lesions to severe tissue injury. These parasites are obligatory intracellular protozoa that use human macrophages as hosts. Their entry into macrophages occurs through phagocytosis that involves the cytoskeleton, comprised of actin and myosin, to form the phagosomes. Actin and myosin are also involved in other cellular processes including cytokinesis, intracellular trafficking of organelles and vesicles, which may interfere with parasite entry. Previous studies have analyzed the expression, localization and role of both actin and myosin in Leishmania. Their participation in various processes vital to the biology of the parasite suggests new targets for therapeutic intervention. Since myosin is required for intracellular transport, attempts have been made to examine the intracellular localization and expression of Leishmania myosin. Studies have shown the presence of kinase activity of CK2 in various trypanosomes linked to cell growth, morphology and infectivity of macrophages by promastigotes. Therefore, the objective of this thesis was to investigate the role of myosin, actin and CK2 for infectivity of Leishmania brasiliensis. In addition, the influence of these proteins in cytokine production and microbiocidal activity in human macrophages was investigated. Drug-based inhibition using lipoxin, latrunculin, nocodozole and TBB caused at least a 50% decrease in growth of L. brasiliensis. The CK2 secreted by the parasite was purified from the supernatant of cultures by HPLC and fraction 44 was determined to correspond to this protein. Lipoxin and TBB were shown to inhibit CK2 activity, contrary to latrunculin that increased its activity. Pretreatment of parasites or macrophages with either lipoxin, latrunculin, nocodozole or TBB lead to a ~50% decrease in the association index between L. brasiliensis and macrphages, with or without preactivation with LPS and INF-γ. Latrunculin and TBB increased the NO in non-activated macrophages and parasites did not infect activated macrophages treated with latrunculin. The other drugs all decreased the production of NO. The release of IL-10 was decreased after treatment with all drugs in non-activated macrophages in the presence of parasites and in activated macrophages in the presence of parasites. For the production of TNF-α, there was a significant decrease in activated macrophages by latrunculin, nocodozole and TBB. When macrophages were activated and infected, treatment with lipoxin showed an increase in the production of this cytokine, opposite to the reduction observed with TBB. When evaluating the integrity of actin, all compounds were determined to influence the organization of actin leading to a decrease in the association index. The transfection of the tail of myosin Va fused to eGFP into macrophages was observed to decrease the association index by 94%. The data confirm the importance of CK2, actin and myosin Va in the process of interactions between parasites and macrophages.