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Yeast dihydroorotate dehydrogenase as a new selectable marker for Plasmodium falciparum transfection.

Abstract：

:Genetic manipulation of Plasmodium falciparum in culture through transfection has provided numerous insights into the molecular and cell biology of this parasite. The procedure is rather cumbersome, and is limited by the number of drug-resistant markers that can be used for selecting transfected parasites. Here we report a new selectable marker that could allow multiple transfections. We have taken advantage of our finding that a critical function of the mitochondrial electron transport chain (mtETC) in the erythrocytic stages of P. falciparum is the regeneration of ubiquinone as co-substrate of dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH), and that transgenic P. falciparum expressing ubiquinone-independent DHODH from yeast (yDHODH) are resistant to all mtETC inhibitors. We assessed the possibility of using yDHODH as a positive selectable marker for transfections of P. falciparum, including its use in gene disruption strategies. We constructed a transfection vector designed for gene disruption, termed pUF-1, containing the yDHODH gene as the positive selection marker in combination with a previously described fused yeast cytosine deaminase-uracil phosphoribosyl transferase gene as a negative selection marker. Transfection of the D10 strain followed by selection with atovaquone yielded positively selected parasites containing the plasmid, demonstrating that yDHODH can be used as a selective marker. Atovaquone, however, could not be used for such selection with the Dd2 strain of P. falciparum. On the other hand, we demonstrated that yDHODH transgenic parasites could be selected in both strains by Plasmodium DHODH-specific triazolopyrimidine-based inhibitors. Thus, selection with DHODH inhibitors was superior in that it successfully selected transgenic Dd2 parasites, as well as yielded transgenic parasites after a shorter period of selection. As a proof of concept, we have successfully disrupted the type II vacuolar proton-pumping pyrophosphatase gene (PfVP2) in P. falciparum by double crossover recombination, showing that this gene is not essential for the survival of blood stage parasites.

journal_name

Mol Biochem Parasitol

journal_title

Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors

Ganesan SM,Morrisey JM,Ke H,Painter HJ,Laroiya K,Phillips MA,Rathod PK,Mather MW,Vaidya AB

doi

10.1016/j.molbiopara.2011.01.004

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-05-01 00:00:00

pages

29-34

issue

eissn

0166-6851

issn

1872-9428

pii

S0166-6851(11)00030-2

journal_volume

177

pub_type

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Yeast dihydroorotate dehydrogenase as a new selectable marker for Plasmodium falciparum transfection.