scholarly journals Adapted Plasmodium knowlesi parasites that infect cultured human red blood cells

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 65-65
Keyword(s):  
Red Blood Cells ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Plasmodium Knowlesi ◽  
Human Red Blood Cells

scholarly journals Engagement rules that underpin DBL-DARC interactions for ingress of Plasmodium knowlesi and Plasmodium vivax into human erythrocytes

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manickam Yogavel ◽  
Abhishek Jamwal ◽  
Swati Gupta ◽  
Amit Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Red Blood Cells ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Plasmodium Knowlesi ◽  
Interaction Model ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Human Red Blood Cells ◽  
Ligand Interactions ◽  
Erythrocyte Binding ◽  
Integration Sites

SummaryThe molecular mechanisms by which P. knowlesi and P. vivax invade human red blood cells have long been studied. Malaria parasite erythrocytic stages comprise of repeated bursts of parasites via cyclical invasion of host RBCs using dedicated receptor-ligand interactions. A family of erythrocyte-binding proteins (EBPs) from P. knowlesi and P. vivax attach to human Duffy antigen receptor for chemokines (DARC) via their Duffy binding-like domains (Pv-DBL and Pk-DBL respectively) for invasion. Here, we provide a comprehensive overview that presents new insights on the atomic resolution interactions that underpin the binding of human DARC with Pk/Pv-DBLs. Based on extensive structural and biochemical data, we provide a novel, testable and overarching interaction model that rationalizes even contradictory pieces of evidence that have so far existed in the literature on Pk/Pv-DBL/DARC binding determinants. We address the conundrum of how parasite-encoded Pk/Pv-DBLs recognize human DARC via its two sulfated tyrosine residues. We collate evidence for two distinct DARC integration sites on Pk/Pv-DBLs that together likely engage the DARC’s sulfated extracellular domain. These analyses are important for both malaria vaccine and inhibitor development efforts that are targeted at abrogating Pk/Pv-DBL/DARC coupling as one avenue to prevent invasion of P. vivax into human red blood cells.

scholarly journals Transbilayer distribution and mobility of phosphatidylinositol in human red blood cells.

1990 ◽  
Vol 265 (27) ◽  
pp. 16035-16038 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Bütikofer ◽  
Z W Lin ◽  
D T Chiu ◽  
B Lubin ◽  
F A Kuypers
Keyword(s):  
Red Blood Cells ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Human Red Blood Cells

scholarly journals Rhythmic glucose metabolism regulates the redox circadian clockwork in human red blood cells

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ratnasekhar Ch ◽  
Guillaume Rey ◽  
Sandipan Ray ◽  
Pawan K. Jha ◽  
Paul C. Driscoll ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Glucose Metabolism ◽  
Red Blood Cells ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Mammalian Cells ◽  
Metabolic Flux ◽  
Pentose Phosphate ◽  
Human Red Blood Cells ◽  
Integral Process ◽  
Metabolic Oscillations ◽  
Human Rbcs

AbstractCircadian clocks coordinate mammalian behavior and physiology enabling organisms to anticipate 24-hour cycles. Transcription-translation feedback loops are thought to drive these clocks in most of mammalian cells. However, red blood cells (RBCs), which do not contain a nucleus, and cannot perform transcription or translation, nonetheless exhibit circadian redox rhythms. Here we show human RBCs display circadian regulation of glucose metabolism, which is required to sustain daily redox oscillations. We found daily rhythms of metabolite levels and flux through glycolysis and the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP). We show that inhibition of critical enzymes in either pathway abolished 24-hour rhythms in metabolic flux and redox oscillations, and determined that metabolic oscillations are necessary for redox rhythmicity. Furthermore, metabolic flux rhythms also occur in nucleated cells, and persist when the core transcriptional circadian clockwork is absent in Bmal1 knockouts. Thus, we propose that rhythmic glucose metabolism is an integral process in circadian rhythms.

scholarly journals Author Correction: Retention of Mitochondria in Mature Human Red Blood Cells as the Result of Autophagy Impairment in Rett Syndrome

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Sbardella ◽  
Grazia Raffaella Tundo ◽  
Luisa Campagnolo ◽  
Giuseppe Valacchi ◽  
Augusto Orlandi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Red Blood Cells ◽  
Rett Syndrome ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Human Red Blood Cells

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