2016
DOI: 10.1007/s10863-016-9665-9
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The active transport of histidine and its role in ATP production in Trypanosoma cruzi

Abstract: Trypanosoma cruzi, the aetiological agent of Chagas's disease, metabolizes glucose, and after its exhaustion, degrades amino acids as energy source. Here, we investigate histidine uptake and its participation in energy metabolism. No putative genes for the histidine biosynthetic pathway have been identified in genome databases of T. cruzi, suggesting that its uptake from extracellular medium is a requirement for the viability of the parasite. From this assumption, we characterized the uptake of histidine in T.… Show more

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“…For example, it is well documented that T. cruzi is able to consume glucose preferentially at the beginning of the exponential proliferation phase, and after exhaustion of this metabolite, they switch to a metabolism that is mainly based on the consumption of amino acids [10][11][12]. It is well known that a variety of amino acids are robust energy sources [13][14][15][16][17][18]. In addition, amino acids are important to crucial processes such as energy management [19], cell proliferation [20,21], cell differentiation [13,[22][23][24], host cell infection [15], intracellular survival [23,25], osmotic control [26] and resistance to different types of stress conditions [14,[27][28][29].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, it is well documented that T. cruzi is able to consume glucose preferentially at the beginning of the exponential proliferation phase, and after exhaustion of this metabolite, they switch to a metabolism that is mainly based on the consumption of amino acids [10][11][12]. It is well known that a variety of amino acids are robust energy sources [13][14][15][16][17][18]. In addition, amino acids are important to crucial processes such as energy management [19], cell proliferation [20,21], cell differentiation [13,[22][23][24], host cell infection [15], intracellular survival [23,25], osmotic control [26] and resistance to different types of stress conditions [14,[27][28][29].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A K m (constante de Michaelis-Menten), bem como a atividade específica desse transportador se mostraram semelhantes àquelas descritas para alguns dos outros transportadores de aminoácidos do parasita, tais como o transportador de Pro de alta afinidade (sistema A) , o transportador único de Glu (Silber et al, 2006) e o transportador de baixa afinidade para Arg (Canepa et al, 2009). A forma tripomastigota metacíclica também pode incorporar His, porém, quando comparada às taxas de incorporação da forma epimastigota, a última incorpora cerca de 60% a mais com respeito ao metacíclico, sugerindo uma maior dependência deste aminoácido para o estágio epimastigota, provavelmente associado à proliferação celular (Barison et al, 2016).…”
Section: O Aminoácido Histidina (His) E O T Cruziunclassified
“…Foi observado que além de incorporada pelo parasita, His está sendo usada como fonte de energia para manter a viabilidade celular (Barison et al, 2016), em níveis similares aos demonstrados para Pro, anteriormente descrita como um aminoácido protetor ao estresse metabólico e relevante em termos de bioenergética para o parasita (Magdaleno et al, 2009;Martins et al, 2009;Paes et al, 2013;Mantilla et al, 2015).…”
Section: O Aminoácido Histidina (His) E O T Cruziunclassified
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