Abstract：
:The biochemical and structural changes that occur during the conversion of Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites to bradyzoites and the formation of tissue cyst are not well understood. Maintaining cells infected with T. gondii type II and III strains under stress conditions induces the tachyzoite-bradyzoite in vitro differentiation, along with the formation of cyst-like structures. However, due to the long exposure to such conditions required to induce the differentiation, the severe damages in the host cell and the low encystation frequency, it has been difficult to dissect in more detail these processes. Here, we successfully induced the in vitro formation of Toxoplasma cysts-like structures from tachyzoites of the type I RH strain by treating with mycophenolic acid, an inhibitor of the inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase. Mycophenolic acid is a drug widely used for HXGPRT positive selection of Toxoplasma mutant strains along with xanthine incubation in the culture medium; under such conditions, formation of tissue cysts has not been reported. We show that the exposure of extracellular tachyzoites to mycophenolic acid in absence of xanthine, followed by host cell invasion, triggered their differentiation into cyst-like structures. The differential expression of CST1, BAG1, and SAG1 molecules, as well as the structural modifications of infected cells, was characterized during the formation of cyst-like structures in vitro. These findings will allow the characterization of signaling pathways involved in tachyzoite to bradyzoite conversion and formation of tissue cysts.
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Parasitol Resjournal_title
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Castro-Elizalde KN,Hernández-Contreras P,Ramírez-Flores CJ,González-Pozos S,Gómez de León CT,Mondragón-Castelán M,Mondragón-Flores Rdoi
10.1007/s00436-017-5738-xsubject
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2018-02-01 00:00:00pages
547-563issue
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0932-0113issn
1432-1955pii
10.1007/s00436-017-5738-xjournal_volume
117pub_type
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