RRC ID 87903
著者 Ghosh S, Chigicherla KV, Dasgupta S, Goto Y, Mukherjee B.
タイトル Oxidative stress-driven enhanced iron production and scavenging through Ferroportin reorientation worsens anemia in antimony-resistant Leishmania donovani infection.
ジャーナル PLoS Pathog
Abstract Despite the withdrawal of pentavalent-antimonials in treating Visceral leishmaniasis from India, recent clinical isolates of Leishmania donovani (LD) exhibit unresponsiveness towards pentavalent-antimony (LD-R). This antimony-unresponsiveness points towards a genetic adaptation that underpins LD-R's evolutionary persistence and dominance over sensitive counterparts (LD-S). This study highlights how LD evolutionarily tackled antimony exposure and gained increased potential of scavenging host-iron within its parasitophorous vacuoles (PV) to support its aggressive proliferation. Even though anti-leishmanial activity of pentavalent antimonials relies on triggering oxidative outburst, LD-R exhibits a surprising strategy of promoting reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation in infected macrophages. An inherent metabolic shift from glycolysis to Pentose Phosphate shunt allows LD-R to withstand elevated ROS by sustaining heightened levels of NADPH. Elevated ROS levels on the other hand trigger excess iron production, and LD-R capitalizes on this surplus iron by selectively reshuffling macrophage-surface iron exporter, Ferroportin, around its PV thereby gaining a survival edge as a heme-auxotroph. Higher iron utilization by LD-R leads to subsequent iron insufficiency, compensated by increased erythrophagocytosis through the breakdown of SIRPα-CD47 surveillance, orchestrated by a complex interplay of two proteases, Furin and ADAM10. Understanding these mechanisms is crucial for managing LD-R-infections and their associated complications like severe anemia, and may also provide valuable mechanistic insights into understanding drug unresponsiveness developed in other intracellular pathogens that rely on host iron.
巻・号 21(1)
ページ e1012858
公開日 2025-1-1
DOI 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012858
PII PPATHOGENS-D-24-00843
PMID 39888953
PMC PMC11785346
MeSH Animals Antimony* / pharmacology Antiprotozoal Agents / pharmacology Cation Transport Proteins* / metabolism Drug Resistance Ferroportin Humans Iron* / metabolism Leishmania donovani* / drug effects Leishmania donovani* / metabolism Leishmaniasis, Visceral* / drug therapy Leishmaniasis, Visceral* / metabolism Leishmaniasis, Visceral* / parasitology Macrophages / metabolism Macrophages / parasitology Mice Oxidative Stress* / drug effects Reactive Oxygen Species / metabolism
リソース情報
病原真核微生物 Leishmania donovani D10, Ld003