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Sialoglycoproteins and sialic acids of Plasmodium knowlesi schizont-infected erythrocytes and normal rhesus monkey erythrocytes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

R. J. Howard ,
G. Reuter ,
J. W. Barnwell  and
R. Schauer
R. J. Howard
Affiliation:
Malaria Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
G. Reuter
Affiliation:
Biochemisches Institut, Christian-Albrechts Universität, D-2300, Kiel 1, West Germany
J. W. Barnwell
Affiliation:
Malaria Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
R. Schauer
Affiliation:
Malaria Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Summary

The effects of malaria infection on RBC sialic acids and sialoglycoproteins were studied with asexual blood-stage infections of Plasmodium knowlesi in rhesus monkeys. Glycoprotein radio-isotope labelling methods were used to compare the sialoglycoproteins of normal RBC and P. knowlesi schizont-infected RBC (SI-RBC). Tritiation of glycoproteins from SI-RBC with the standard sialidase + galactose oxidase/NaB3H4 method or standard periodate/NaB3H4 method was significantly decreased when compared to normal RBC. However, tritium uptake into glycoproteins was normal when SI-RBC were treated with 5-fold higher concentrations of both enzymes in the first labelling method, or with a 5-fold increase in the molar ratio of periodate to sialic acid in the second method. The mobility of tritiated host cell glycoproteins on SDS–polyacrylamide gels was identical for SI-RBC and normal RBC. New bands, possibly glycoproteins, of 230, 160, 90, 52, and 30 kDa were detected after labelling SI-RBC by the modified periodate/NaB3H4 method. Sialic acid analysis of normal rhesus monkey RBC (62μg/1010 RBC) revealed that 46% of the total sialic acid was N-glycolylneuraminic acid, 33% was N-acetyl-9-O-acetylneuraminic acid, and the remainder N-acetylneuraminic acid. SI-RBC collected either directly from infected monkeys or after in vitro culture of ring-infected RBC in horse serum, had increased total sialic acid (126 or 115μg/1010 RBC, respectively). The sialic acid content of infected RBC must increase during parasite development since RBC infected with ring-stage P. knowlesi had the same content as normal RBC. There was no significant difference in the ratio of the three sialic acids of SI-RBC and normal RBC. In contrast, the uninfected RBC from infected blood of different monkeys showed marked variation in sialic acid composition and generally had a lower sialic acid content than normal RBC.

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Parasitology , Volume 92 , Issue 3 , June 1986 , pp. 527 - 543
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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