Generation of Leishmania donovani axenic amastigotes: their growth and biological characteristics |
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Authors: | Debrabant Alain Joshi Manju B Pimenta Paulo F P Dwyer Dennis M |
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Institution: | Division of Emerging and Transfusion Transmitted Diseases, CBER, FDA, Bethesda, MD, USA. |
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Abstract: | In this report, we describe an in vitro culture system for the generation and propagation of axenic amastigotes from the well characterised 1S-CL2D line of Leishmania donovani. Fine structure analyses of these in vitro-grown amastigotes demonstrated that they possessed morphological features characteristic of L. donovani tissue-derived amastigotes. Further, these axenic amastigotes (LdAxAm) were shown to synthesise and release a secretory acid phosphatase isoform similar to that produced by intracellular amastigotes. Such LdAxAm also expressed surface membrane 3'-nucleotidase enzyme activity similar to that of tissue-derived amastigotes. Moreover, LdAxAm, in contrast to promastigotes, expressed significant levels of the amastigote-specific A2 proteins. In addition, LdAxAm, derived from long term cultures of Ld 1S-CL2D promastigotes, had significant infectivity for both human macrophages in vitro and for hamsters in vivo. Thus, the in vitro culture system described herein provides a useful tool for the generation of large quantities of uniform populations of axenic amastigotes of the L. donovani 1S-CL2D line. The availability of such material should greatly facilitate studies concerning the cell and molecular biology of this parasite developmental stage. |
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Keywords: | Trypanosomatid Leishmaniasis Parasite Culture system Infectivity Virulence |
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