Abstract:
:Malaria parasites increase their host erythrocyte's permeability to various nutrients, fueling intracellular pathogen development and replication. The plasmodial surface anion channel (PSAC) mediates this uptake and is linked to the parasite-encoded RhopH complex, consisting of CLAG3, RhopH2, and RhopH3. While interactions between these subunits are well established, it is not clear whether they remain associated from their synthesis in developing merozoites through erythrocyte invasion and trafficking to the host membrane. Here, we explored protein-protein interactions between RhopH subunits using live-cell imaging and Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) experiments. Using the green fluorescent protein (GFP) derivatives mCerulean and mVenus, we generated single- and double-tagged parasite lines for fluorescence measurements. While CLAG3-mCerulean served as an efficient FRET donor for RhopH2-mVenus within rhoptry organelles, mCerulean targeted to this organelle via a short signal sequence produced negligible FRET. Upon merozoite egress and reinvasion, these tagged RhopH subunits were deposited into the new host cell's parasitophorous vacuole; these proteins were then exported and trafficked to the erythrocyte membrane, where CLAG3 and RhopH2 remained fully associated. Fluorescence intensity measurements identified stoichiometric increases in exported RhopH protein when erythrocytes are infected with two parasites; whole-cell patch-clamp revealed a concomitant increase in PSAC functional copy number and a dose effect for RhopH contribution to ion and nutrient permeability. These studies establish live-cell FRET imaging in human malaria parasites, reveal that RhopH subunits traffic to their host membrane destination without dissociation, and suggest quantitative contribution to PSAC formation.IMPORTANCE Malaria parasites grow within circulating red blood cells and uptake nutrients through a pore on their host membrane. Here, we used gene editing to tag CLAG3 and RhopH2, two proteins linked to the nutrient pore, with fluorescent markers and tracked these proteins in living infected cells. After their synthesis in mature parasites, imaging showed that both proteins are packaged into membrane-bound rhoptries. When parasites ruptured their host cells and invaded new red blood cells, these proteins were detected within a vacuole around the parasite before they migrated and inserted in the surface membrane of the host cell. Using simultaneous labeling of CLAG3 and RhopH2, we determined that these proteins interact tightly during migration and after surface membrane insertion. Red blood cells infected with two parasites had twice the protein at their surface and a parallel increase in the number of nutrient pores. Our work suggests that these proteins directly facilitate parasite nutrient uptake from human plasma.
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Ahmad M,Manzella-Lapeira J,Saggu G,Ito D,Brzostowski JA,Desai SAdoi
10.1128/mBio.01354-20subject
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