INFECTION ANDIMMUNITY, Mar. 2003, p. 1561–1565 Vol. 71, No. 3 0019-9567/03/$08.00⫹0 DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.3.1561–1565.2003
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Cell Adhesion and Ca
2
⫹
Signaling Activity in Stably Transfected
Trypanosoma cruzi
Epimastigotes Expressing the Metacyclic
Stage-Specific Surface Molecule gp82
Patricio M. Manque,
1† Ivan Neira,
1Vanessa D. Atayde,
1Esteban Cordero,
1Alice T. Ferreira,
2Jose´ Franco da Silveira,
1Marcel Ramirez,
1‡
and Nobuko Yoshida
1*
Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia1and Departamento de Biofísica, Escola Paulista de Medicina,2Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Received 12 August 2002/Returned for modification 3 October 2002/Accepted 13 December 2002
Metacyclic trypomastigotes ofTrypanosoma cruziexpress a developmentally regulated 82-kDa surface gly-coprotein (gp82) that has been implicated in host cell invasion. gp82-mediated interaction of metacyclic forms with target cells induces in both cells activation of the signal transduction pathways, leading to intracellular Ca2ⴙmobilization, which is required for parasite internalization. Noninfective epimastigotes do not express
detectable levels of gp82 and are unable to induce a Ca2ⴙresponse. We stably transfected epimastigotes with
aT. cruziexpression vector carrying the metacyclic stage gp82 cDNA. These transfectants produced a func-tional gp82, which bound to and triggered a Ca2ⴙresponse in HeLa cells, in the same manner as the metacyclic
trypomastigote gp82. Such properties were not found in epimastigotes transfected with the plasmid vector alone. Epimastigotes expressing gp82 on the surface adhered to HeLa cells but were not internalized. Treat-ment of gp82-expressing epimastigotes with forskolin, an activator of adenylyl cyclase that increases the metacyclic trypomastigote entry into target cells, did not promote parasite internalization. P175, an intracel-lular tyrosine phosphorylated protein, which appears to play a role in gp82-dependent signaling cascade in metacyclic forms, was undetectable in epimastigotes, either transfected or not with pTEX-gp82. Overall, our results indicate that gp82 is required but not sufficient for target cell invasion.
Trypanosoma cruziis the causative agent of Chagas’ disease, a major public health problem in Latin America. A key process for the successful establishment ofT. cruziinfection in mam-malian hosts is the penetration of metacyclic trypomastigote forms into target cells. Metacyclic forms synthesize a develop-mentally regulated 82-kDa surface glycoprotein (gp82) that has been implicated in the parasite entry into host cells (17, 19), an event that requires intracellular Ca2⫹mobilization (5,
12, 23). gp82 is an adhesion molecule that binds to host cells in a receptor-mediated manner (11, 17, 20) and triggers Ca2⫹
mobilization both in the parasite and in the target cell (19, 30). It remains to be determined whether gp82 alone is sufficient to promote parasite internalization, as is the case of penetrin, a heparin-binding protein ofT. cruzitissue culture trypomastig-otes that, when engineered into noninvasive Escherichia coli, allows bacterial entry into fibroblastic cells (15), and of some bacterial proteins, such as Listeria monocytogenes internalin, which confers invasiveness to bothEnterococcus faecalis and internalin-coated latex beads (9).
gp82 is encoded by a multigene family whose members are organized in subsets distributed throughout the genome (1).
This precludes the functional genetic analysis by gene knock-out. Among the alternative strategies used to circumvent that problem is the stable transformation with episomes and over-expression of the protein of interest in a developmental stage that does not express it. Norris (14) showed that transfection of epimastigotes with a trypomastigote-stage specific complement regulatory protein gene conferred resistance to the comple-ment action to epimastigotes that are otherwise susceptible to complement-mediated lysis. Overexpression of cruzipain, a major cysteine proteinase ofT. cruzi, enhanced differentiation of epimastigotes into metacyclic trypomastigotes (25).
Ramirez et al. (18) have shown the correct processing and the expression of gp82 on the surface of epimastigotes stably transfected with plasmid pTEX carrying the complete open reading frame (ORF) ofgp82gene. In the present study, we further investigated the phenotypic characteristics acquired by transfectedT. cruziepimastigotes expressing gp82, with partic-ular emphasis on the properties associated with host cell inva-sion. We have found that the homologous expression of gp82 augments the cell adhesion capacity of epimastigotes and con-fers to these developmental forms the ability to induce target cell Ca2⫹mobilization.
Strain G (T. cruziI), isolated from an opossum in the Am-azon region (27), was used throughout this study. Parasites were maintained alternately in mice and liver infusion tryptose (LIT) medium containing 5% fetal calf serum (FCS). Epimas-tigotes were grown in LIT medium at 28°C. Metacyclic trypo-mastigotes were harvested from LIT cultures at the stationary growth phase and were purified by chromatography on a DEAE-cellulose column, as described previously (24).
Con-* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Escola Paulista de Medi-cina, Universidade Federal de Sa˜o Paulo, R. Botucatu, 862-6o Andar, 04023-062, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil. Phone: 5576-4532. Fax: 55-11-5571-1095. E-mail: [email protected].
† Present address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
‡ Present address: Departamento de Gene´tica, Universidade Fed-eral de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil.
struction of pTEX-gp82 vector was carried out by subcloning a
BamHI/HindIII fragment containing the entire ORF of the
gp82 gene (1) into the BamHI and HindIII sites of plasmid pTEX (8). The pTEX-gp82 constructs were checked by se-quencing and restriction mapping analysis. For transfection of
T. cruzi epimastigotes, parasites in the mid-log phase were washed in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) and resuspended in electroporation buffer (137 mM NaCl, 5 mM KCl, 5.5 mM Na2HPO4, 0.77 mM glucose, 21 mM HEPES; pH 7.2) at a final concentration of 108
cells/ml. Aliquots of 0.45 ml were dis-pensed into disposable 0.4-mm cuvettes (Bio-Rad Laborato-ries) containing 30 g of plasmid DNA (pTEX or pTEX-gp82). The cells were electroporated by using a Bio-Rad gene pulser at 350 V and 500 mF, with two consecutive pulses. After 1 min on ice, the samples were diluted fivefold with LIT me-dium containing 10% FCS plus 0.5% human blood and al-lowed to recover for 24 h. Geneticin (G418 sulfate; Life Tech-nologies) was added, at a concentration of 200 g/ml, and parasites were incubated at 28°C. After selection, transfected epimastigotes were grown in the presence of 400g of Gene-ticin/ml. For Southern blot analysis,T. cruziDNA was isolated as previously described (1), digested with restriction enzyme, separated by electrophoresis on 0,8% agarose gel, and blotted onto nylon membranes. RNA for Northern blot analysis was isolated by treating parasites with 1 ml of Trizol reagent (Gibco-BRL). After complete dissolution and the addition of 0.2 ml of chloroform, the suspension was centrifuged for 15 min at 12,000 ⫻ gto recover the aqueous phase. An equal volume of isopropanol was added to the aqueous phase to
precipitate the RNA overnight at ⫺20°C. The RNA was de-natured with 50% formamide and 2.2 M formaldehyde and subjected to electrophoresis in a 1.0% agarose gel containing formaldehyde. After being stained with ethidium bromide, RNA was transferred to nylon membranes. The membranes were prehybridized in a solution containing 50% formamide, 5⫻SSC (1⫻SSC is 0.15 M NaCl plus 0.015 M sodium citrate), 5⫻Denhardt solution, 0.5% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), 5 mM EDTA, and 0.1 mg of tRNA/ml at 42°C for 2 h and then hybridized overnight 42°C with32
P-labeled probe. The probes consisted of a DNA fragment corresponding to ORF ofgp82
gene or to the 500-bp fragment of the neogene that confers resistance to the drug G418, obtained by digestion of the plas-mid pTEX withKpnI andPstI. After hybridization, the mem-branes were subjected to three washes at 60°C in 2⫻ SSC containing 0.1% SDS, followed by two washes in 0.1⫻ SSC containing 0.1% SDS, and then exposed to X-ray film. Western blot analysis was performed essentially as described previously (28), and the final reaction was revealed by chemiluminescence by using the ECL detection reagent and Hyperfilm-MP (Am-ersham). Expression of gp82 on parasite surface was analyzed by flow cytometry as detailed elsewhere (19).
ForT. cruziadhesion assay, HeLa cells were grown at 37°C in 24-well plates on a 13-mm-diameter round glass coverslip at a density of 2 ⫻ 105
cells/well in Dulbecco modified Eagle medium supplemented with 10% FCS, streptomycin (100g/ ml), and penicillin (100 U/ml) in a humidified 5% CO2 atmo-sphere. Parasites were seeded onto HeLa cells (5⫻106
para-sites/well). After 1 h of incubation at 37°C, the coverslips were
FIG. 1. Characterization ofT. cruziepimastigotes transfected with pTEX constructs. The samples analyzed were wild-type epimastigotes (Epi), epimastigotes transfected with the plasmid vector alone (pTEX), epimastigotes transfected with the pTEX-gp82 construct (pTEX-gp82), or metacyclic trypomastigotes (Meta). (A) Southern blot ofT. cruzigenomic DNA digested withXhoI hybridized with the32P-labeled fragment of
washed in PBS, fixed with methanol, and stained with Giemsa. Host cell invasion assay has been detailed elsewhere (28). To determine the target cell binding of gp82, HeLa cells (5⫻104
), grown in 96-well microtiter plates, were fixed with 4% para-formaldehyde in PBS, washed with PBS, and blocked with PBS containing 10% FCS (PBS-FCS) for 1 h at room temperature. Sonicated extracts of parasites at various protein concentra-tions were then added. After 1 h of incubation at 37°C and several washes in PBS, HeLa cells were sequentially incubated for 1 h at 37°C with monoclonal antibody (MAb) 3F6 in PBS-FCS and anti-mouse immunoglobulin G (IgG) conjugated to peroxidase. After several washes in PBS, the bound enzyme was revealed with o-phenylenediamine. The cytosolic free Ca2⫹concentration in HeLa cells was measured as described
previously (5). Detection of tyrosine phosphorylatedT. cruzi
proteins has been detailed elsewhere (30).
The parasites transfected with the construct pTEX-gp82, or with the vector alone, were first analyzed by Southern blot. Upon digestion with the restriction enzymeXhoI, the parasite DNA was hybridized with theneogene probe. In epimastigotes
carrying pTEX-gp82, the probe hybridized to a 7.2-kb band that corresponds to the linearized plasmid plus the ORF of
gp82gene, whereas a band of 5.6 kb was detected in epimas-tigotes transfected with pTEX alone, and no hybridization signal was visualized in the nontransfected control (Fig. 1A). When the DNA of epimastigotes transfected with pTEX-gp82 was partially digested withXhoI, several bands higher than 7.2 kb could be detected, confirming the presence of multiple episomal copies of plasmid pTEX-gp82 (data not shown). The Northern blot analysis with the gp82 gene probe revealed a 2.1-kb transcript in epimastigotes carrying pTEX-gp82 and a 2.4-kb transcript in metacyclic forms (Fig. 1B). This difference in the size of gp82 transcripts was expected, provided that in the pTEX-gp82 construct the 5⬘and 3⬘untranslated regions of gp82 mRNA were replaced by the 5⬘untranslated region and intergenic spacer of glycosomal glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (gGAPDH) gene (8). Confirming previous re-sults showing the presence of low amounts of gp82 transcripts in epimastigotes (1), a weak 2.4-kb hybridization signal was seen in wild-type epimastigotes and in parasites transfected with pTEX alone (Fig. 1B).
In Western blots, the gp82 band, which is revealed by MAb 3F6 as a doublet or a triplet inT. cruziG strain, was visualized in epimastigotes carrying pTEX-gp82 but not in epimastigotes transfected with pTEX, in a manner indistinguishable from that in metacyclic forms, although of lower intensity (Fig. 1C). We confirmed by flow cytometry that the levels of gp82 on the surface of epimastigotes transfected with pTEX-gp82 were lower than in metacyclic trypomastigotes (Fig. 1D). Higher levels of gp82 expression could not be achieved by increasing the concentration of Geneticin in the growth medium. We did not find any evidence of rearrangement of plasmid molecules, such as reported in pTEX transformed parasites (8, 26), that might explain the reduced gp82 expression. As in epimastig-otes transfected with pTEX-gp82 the gp82 transcript is devoid of the 5⬘and 3⬘untranslated regions, a possibility exists that its stability is reduced. Gene expression in trypanosomatids is largely controlled at the posttranscriptional level, withtrans -splicing, polyadenylation, and binding of protein factors to the 3⬘ untranslated portions of the transcripts promoting either mRNA stability or increase in the translational efficiency (2–4, 6, 7). Another possibility is the presence of a positive regulator effector in metacyclic trypomastigotes but not in epimastigotes. We examined the ability of epimastigotes expressing gp82 to bind to HeLa cells. A threefold increase in the number of adhered parasites was found in gp82-expressing epimastigotes compared to vector-transfected or wild-type epimastigotes (Fig. 2A). To ascertain that the increased cell adhesion of epimastigotes carrying pTEX-gp82 was mediated by gp82, we performed a binding assay in which HeLa cells, immobilized on the bottom of the microtiter plates, were incubated with in-creasing concentrations of the sonicated extract of the para-sites and the bound gp82 was detected by MAb 3F6. The gp82 expressed in epimastigotes transfected with pTEX-gp82 bound to HeLa cells in the same manner as its metacyclic stage coun-terpart (Fig. 2B). We have previously shown that, when engi-neered to express the outer membrane protein LamB fused to peptides based on gp82 sequences implicated in host cell at-tachment (20), an otherwise nonadherent E. coli bound to HeLa cells (16). These data, plus the observation that MAb
FIG. 2. Gp82-mediated binding ofT. cruzito host cells. (A) Live parasites were incubated with HeLa cells for 3 h at 37°C. After washes in PBS, fixation with methanol, and staining with Giemsa, the number of adherent epimastigotes was counted in a total of 500 Giemsa-stained cells. (B) Increasing concentrations of sonicated parasite ex-tracts were added to wells in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay plates containing paraformaldehyde-fixed HeLa cells. After washes, the cells were sequentially incubated with MAb 3F6 and anti-mouse IgG conjugated to peroxidase.o-Phenyldiamidine was used to reveal the bound enzyme. Representative results of one of three experiments are shown. Values are the means⫾the standard deviation of tripli-cates. Epimastigotes (■; Epi), epimastigotes transfected with the vec-tor alone (Œ; pTEX) or with the pTEX-gp82 construct (F; pTEX-gp82), or metacyclic trypomastigotes (⽧; Meta) were evaluated.
3F6 inhibits the binding of metacyclic forms to HeLa cells (data not shown), reinforce the role of gp82 in cell adhesion. As the metacyclic trypomastigote gp82 has been shown to induce Ca2⫹mobilization in HeLa cells (5, 19), we investigated
whether the gp82 generated in epimastigotes could induce a Ca2⫹ response in target cells by measuring the increase in
HeLa cell cytosolic free Ca2⫹ concentration, [Ca2⫹]
i, upon addition of sonicated T. cruzi extracts. As shown in Fig. 3, extracts of gp82-expressing epimastigotes, but not of pTEX-transfected or wild-type epimastigotes, triggered in HeLa cells a Ca2⫹signal similar to that induced by metacyclic
trypomas-tigotes.
Considering that the host cell Ca2⫹mobilization is an
im-portant requirement forT. cruziinternalization (5, 12, 23), we sought to determine whether the expression of gp82 with Ca2⫹
signaling activity was sufficient to confer to an otherwise-non-invasive epimastigote the ability to enter target cells. To clarify the point, the epimastigotes expressing gp82 were incubated with HeLa cells at 37°C for 1 h at a parasite/cell ratio of 20:1, and the number of intracellular parasites was counted in at least 500 Giemsa-stained cells. Epimastigotes carrying pTEX-gp82 failed to enter HeLa cells. In five independent experi-ments, the means ⫾ the standard deviation of intracellular parasites per 500 cells was 104.2⫾16.3 in HeLa cells seeded with metacyclic trypomastigotes, whereas in HeLa cells incu-bated with epimastigotes transfected with pTEX or pTEX-gp82 we only occasionally saw a few (one to four) parasites that appeared to be intracellularly located even when the incuba-tion time was extended to 3 h, a finding indicating that com-ponents other than gp82 are necessary for infection.
Cell invasion by T. cruzi requires the activation of signal transduction pathways in host cells as well as in the parasites. The gp82-mediated interaction of metacyclic forms with HeLa cells triggers the signaling cascade, leading to Ca2⫹
mobiliza-tion in both cells (19, 30). Despite the acquisimobiliza-tion of the ca-pacity to induce a gp82-mediated Ca2⫹signal in HeLa cells, it
is possible that the epimastigotes transfected with pTEX-gp82 are unable to transduce the signal to the parasite interior for lack of some essential components present in metacyclic try-pomastigotes. An externally added activator of signaling pro-cesses could eventually complement that deficiency. Metacyclic forms of T. cruzi G strain have been found to have their invasive capacity augmented⬃100% when pretreated with for-skolin (13), an activator of adenylyl cyclase (21, 22), suggesting the involvement of cyclic AMP-dependent processes. We tested the effect of forskolin on the infectivity of epimastigotes
FIG. 3. Ca2⫹signaling activity ofT. cruzitoward host cells. A total of 25l of sonicated extract of parasites, equivalent to 109cells, were added
at the indicated times (arrow) to fura 2-loaded HeLa cells in a cuvette containing 2.5 ml of Tyrode solution. The results representative of three experiments are presented.
FIG. 4. Analysis of expression of tyrosine phosphorylated p175 in
carrying pTEX-gp82. Parasites were pretreated with 10 M forskolin for 15 min at 37°C before cell invasion assays. Epi-mastigotes transfected with pTEX or pTEX-82 remained non-invasive after treatment with forskolin, whereas the infectivity of the metacyclic trypomastigotes was increased by the drug (data not shown).
We have found that metacyclic forms of a T. cruzi clone, expressing gp82 at lower levels than the recombinant epimas-tigotes as measured by fluorescence-activated cell sorting but otherwise exhibiting the same molecular profile of the parental strain, do enter HeLa cells to a lower degree (data not shown), a finding consistent with the poor gp82 expression. The factor missing in epimastigotes may be the tyrosine phosphorylated protein p175, an intracellular component of the signaling cas-cade not detectable in epimastigotes (Fig. 4A). Binding of MAb 1G7, which reacts with the metacyclic stage-specific sur-face glycoprotein gp90 and hampers the parasite Ca2⫹
re-sponse (19), as well as its internalization (29), greatly reduced the p175 phosphorylation levels (Fig. 4B). This finding is com-patible with the role played by gp90 as the negative regulator of G strain metacyclic trypomastigote entry into target cells (10). No decrease in p175 phosphorylation was observed with MAb 3F6. In T. cruzi CL strain, that do not express MAb 1G7-reactive gp90, the phosphorylation levels of p175 are in-creased and concomitantly the intracellular Ca2⫹
mobilization is induced, upon recognition of gp82 by the host cell receptor or by MAb 3F6 (30). All of these data, taken together, rein-force the notion that the surface molecule gp82 is required but not sufficient for parasite internalization.
This work was supported by Fundac¸a˜o de Amparo a` Pesquisa do Estado de Sa˜o Paulo (FAPESP) and Conselho Nacional de Desen-volvimento Científico e Tecnolo´gico (CNPq). P.M. Manque was recip-ient of a posdoctoral fellowship from FAPESP.
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