Abstract:
:Cerebral malaria is a severe neurological complication associated with sequestration of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes (IE) in the brain microvasculature, but the specific binding interactions remain under debate. Here, we have generated an engineered three-dimensional (3D) human brain endothelial microvessel model and studied P. falciparum binding under the large range of physiological flow velocities that occur in both health and disease. Perfusion assays on 3D microvessels reveal previously unappreciated phenotypic heterogeneity in parasite binding to tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α)-activated brain endothelial cells. While clonal parasite lines expressing a group B P. falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1) present an increase in binding to activated 3D microvessels, P. falciparum-IE expressing DC8-PfEMP1 present a decrease in binding. The differential response to endothelium activation is mediated by surface expression changes of endothelial protein C receptor (EPCR) and intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1). These findings demonstrate heterogeneity in parasite binding and provide evidence for a parasite strategy to adapt to a changing microvascular environment during infection. The engineered 3D human brain microvessel model provides new mechanistic insight into parasite binding and opens opportunities for further studies on malaria pathogenesis and parasite-vessel interactions.IMPORTANCE Cerebral malaria research has been hindered by the inaccessibility of the brain. Here, we have developed an engineered 3D human brain microvessel model that mimics the blood flow rates and architecture of small blood vessels to study how P. falciparum-infected human erythrocytes attach to brain endothelial cells. By studying parasite lines with different adhesive properties, we show that the malaria parasite binding rate is heterogeneous and strongly influenced by physiological differences in flow and whether the endothelium has been previously activated by TNF-α, a proinflammatory cytokine that is linked to malaria disease severity. We also show the importance of human EPCR and ICAM-1 in parasite binding. Our model sheds new light on how P. falciparum binds within brain microvessels and provides a powerful method for future investigations of recruitment of human brain pathogens to the blood vessel lining of the brain.
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Bernabeu M,Gunnarsson C,Vishnyakova M,Howard CC,Nagao RJ,Avril M,Taylor TE,Seydel KB,Zheng Y,Smith JDdoi
10.1128/mBio.00420-19subject
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2019-05-28 00:00:00issue
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