An aliquot of 20 μl of parasites was used for counting, and the remaining parasites were immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen for later measurement. PCR amplification was carried out using the following parameters: 10 min at 95°C followed by 40 cycles of denaturation (95°C for 10 s), annealing (60°C for 5 s), and extension (72°C for 15 s). It is conceivable that a reserve energy system of limited capacity contributes to a stable ATP amount within the first minutes after the inhibition of oxidative phosphorylation. Crossing points were plotted against the log of cDNA dilutions, and amplification efficiencies (E) were calculated from the slopes of the obtained lines by the following formula: E = 10-1/slope. The addition of succinate, dihydroorotate, glycerol-3-phosphate, or malate to digitonin-permeabilized cells stabilized the ΔΨm in the presence of HDQ, whereas these substrates did not influence atovaquone-mediated depolarization. 8C). The apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii contains a single mitochondrion of an elongated tubular structure (28, 32), which shows several significant metabolic differences from the mammalian counterpart (see references 24 and 33 for review). NAD’ is an effective competitive inhibitor of the reaction (K, = 20 PM); in the presence of NAD+, the NADH saturation curve becomes cooperative, even in the- DCIP reductase assay. NADH dehydrogenase (EC 1.6.5.3) is an enzyme located in the inner mitochodrial membrane that catalyzes the transfer of electrons from NADH to coenzyme Q (CoQ). Time-lapse microscopy.Live imaging of the T. gondii ΔΨm was performed with an inverted Zeiss Axiovert 200 M microscope equipped with an XL-3 incubator and a heating unit (PeCon). Cells were treated for this purpose with 2 μM digitonin, a concentration which was shown previously to selectively permeabilize the parasite's plasma membrane for metabolites without disturbing the function of the respiratory chain (39). 4A). (B) Comparison of the Mitotracker staining patterns from a sample in which the 6-h HDQ treatment period was started 16 h postinfection (top) to those from an untreated control (bottom). A recent study reported that HDQ inhibits DHODH of P. falciparum (10). Uracil supplementation did not lead to an increased growth rate (Fig. Their suitability as a drug target in Plasmodium is controversial and has been the subject of discussion (16, 17, 38). These results are consistent with previously reported observations of the mitochondrial membrane depolarization effect of atovaquone in T. gondii (39) and thus demonstrate the suitability of DiOC6(3) staining for real-time ΔΨm imaging. 5). The kinetics revealed that HDQ leads to a gradual decrease of the parasite's total ATP level, resulting in a ∼30% reduction after 1 h and a ∼70% reduction after 24 h (Fig. The mode of action of HDQ in T. gondii is thus an inhibition of oxidative phosphorylation. Our studies suggest that oxidative phosphorylation is indispensable for sufficient ATP generation in the growing-tachyzoite stage and that other ATP-generating pathways such as glycolysis cannot fully compensate for its loss. *, P < 0.003; **, P < 0.002; ***, P < 0.001 versus untreated control (determined by a Student's t test). The relative parasitic ATP levels for each sample were normalized with the numbers of parasites counted previously. Immunofluorescence assay.Samples were first fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde-PBS for 10 min and then permeabilized with 0.25% Triton X-100-PBS for another 15 min. NOTE: We request your email address only to inform the recipient that it was you who recommended this article, and that it is not junk mail. 7), indicating that HDQ leads to a moderate induction of bradyzoite differentiation. The supernatant comprising the membrane-soluble fraction was collected, precipitated by trichloroacetic acid, and resuspended in 2× sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) sample buffer containing 0.09 M Tris-Cl (pH 6.8), 20% glycerol, 2% SDS, 0.02% bromophenol blue, and 0.1 M dithiothreitol. Loss of ΔΨm during bradyzoite differentiation. We compared the cationic fluorophores TMRE (tetramethylrhodamine ethyl ester), JC-1 (3,3′-tetraethylbenzimidazolcarbocyanine iodine), and DiOC6(3) for their abilities to specifically stain the mitochondrion of intracellular tachyzoites with no or only weak staining of the plasma membrane. This ubiquinone-dependent enzyme catalyzes the dehydrogenation of dihydroorotate to orotate, an essential step for de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis. There is no corresponding NADPH dehydrogenase in mammalian mitochondria; instead, the reducing equivalents of NADPH + H+ are transferred to NAD+ in a reaction catalyzed by a transhydrogenase … In drug-untreated controls, more than 80% of the parasites displayed a strong ΔΨm, confirming that the digitonin treatment itself did not affect the ΔΨm (Fig. To exclude this possibility, we verified the results using freshly harvested extracellular bradyzoites, which were released from their parasitophorous vacuoles and the emerging cyst wall by extensive syringe passage. However, each of the four substrates significantly increased the number of ΔΨm-positive parasites in the presence of HDQ (Fig. Significant inhibition of NADH-DH was seen following incubation of brain slices with very low concentration of L-BOAA (0.1 pM). This observation clearly indicates that HDQ acts as an ETC inhibitor upstream of the atovaquone target, which is complex III, at the level of ubiquinone reduction. The bacterial NDH‐2 structure establishes a framework for the structure‐based design of small‐molecule inhibitors. Together, our studies reveal that oxidative phosphorylation is essential for maintaining the ATP level in the fast-growing tachyzoite stage and that HDQ interferes with this pathway by inhibiting the electron transport chain at the level of ubiquinone reduction. We do not retain these email addresses. The frequency of Mitotracker-positive parasites in the BAG1-positive population was less than 10%, compared to ∼80% Mitotracker-positive parasites in freshly released extracellular tachyzoites (Fig. When mock controls were stained with Mitotracker at different time points from 7 to 32 h postinfection, 75 to 80% of all intracellular parasites showed the typical intense staining of the single T. gondii mitochondrion (Fig. 4B). In brief, confluent HFFs seeded onto an imaging plate were infected with 2 × 105 to 3 × 105 parasites per well. From: Mitochondrial Case Studies, 2016. The effect of oligomycin-mediated FoF1-ATPase inhibition was further investigated by using 143B/260 cells as host cells for T. gondii. Kinetics of HDQ-mediated ΔΨm collapse.DiOC6(3)-based real-time imaging of the ΔΨm for parasites treated with 10 nM, 100 nM, and 1 μM HDQ led to a dose-dependent depolarization of the T. gondii mitochondrial membrane (Fig. Antimycin is the antibiotics, produced by Streptomyces. The fraction of parasites with positive Mitotracker staining was determined using 143B/260 host cells after HDQ treatment with and without the addition of oligomycin. Eukaryot Cell 8: 877 – 887. doi: 10.1128/EC.00381-08. A fundamental difference of the T. gondii and also the Plasmodium falciparum electron transport chains (ETCs) as opposed to the mammalian ETC is the lack of multisubunit complex I, which couples the transfer of electrons from NADH to ubiquinone with the translocation of protons (6). Copyright © 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. These quinone analogues accept electrons from complex I and become inhibitory once reduced 25 , 27 , a suicide-like action that seems to derive from semiquinone instability, since it increases oxygen radical production in complex I … However, we excluded the possibility that pyrimidine starvation is the mode of action by which HDQ inhibits T. gondii replication. Together, these results suggest that HDQ possesses a different mode of action compared to that of atovaquone and inhibits the ETC upstream of complex III at the level of ubiquinone reduction. The depolarization kinetics of 10 nM HDQ were similar to those of 10 nM atovaquone. The latter would imply that the proton motive force cannot be used for ATP synthesis. Detection of ΔΨm in T. gondii.The T. gondii ΔΨm was monitored after staining with the fluorophore Mitotracker or DiOC6(3) (3,3′-dihexyloxacarbocyanine iodine; Invitrogen). A putative concern was that the emerging cyst wall acts as a diffusion barrier and prevents the access of DiOC6(3) to the bradyzoites. The fraction of vacuoles containing ΔΨm-positive parasites was determined by fluorescence microscopy of at least 100 vacuoles. Extracellular tachyzoites (3 × 107 to 4 × 107 tachyzoites) from a stable transgenic line expressing TgATPase-β were harvested and resuspended in ice-cold PBS containing protease inhibitors. Antimycins. A common response to the inhibition of oxidative phosphorylation, which might also occur in T. gondii, is an increased metabolic flux through other energy-generating pathways, like glycolysis. The apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii expresses type II NADH dehydrogenases (NDH2s) instead of canonical complex I at the inner mitochondrial membrane. S.S.L. Bradyzoite differentiation was induced by an alkaline-pH shift (pH 8.3). This suggests that HDQ treatment leads to a collapse of the ΔΨm. The addition of dihydroorotate, glycerol-3-phosphate, malate, or succinate did not prevent an atovaquone-mediated ΔΨm collapse. Biochemical evidence for oxidative phosphorylation was provided by extracellular T. gondii tachyzoites that were permeabilized with digitonin (39). We showed by subcellular fractionation that the F1 subunit is associated exclusively with the membrane fraction, which suggests an interaction of F1 with a membrane-associated Fo or Fo-like subunit. Comparison of bacterial NDH‐2 with the yeast NADH dehydrogenase (Ndi1) structure revealed non‐overlapping binding sites for quinone and NADH in the bacterial enzyme. Since a reduction in the level of parasite replication in T. gondii is often associated with stage differentiation (4), we investigated whether HDQ treatment leads to bradyzoite differentiation. We used DiOC6(3)-based real-time imaging in the following experiments to monitor the kinetics of HDQ-mediated ΔΨm depolarization. The infected cultures were stained immediately before drug treatment with DiOC6(3), and the fraction of vacuoles containing ΔΨm-positive parasites was determined by fluorescence microscopy of at least 100 vacuoles at the indicated time periods. Digitonin permeabilization.Substrate supplementation was performed on digitonin-permeabilized intracellular parasites using a modification of a previously described protocol that was established for extracellular parasites (39). While both of the inhibitors will decrease the activity of NADH dehydrogenase significantly (both suppresses enzyme activity to about 40% of the control, uninhibited enzyme), at limiting substrate concentrations, Mg2+will inhibit the enzyme more efficiently than EDTA. We investigated whether an excess of substrates for these enzymes could compensate for an HDQ-mediated depolarization of the ΔΨm. 2C). The dye could be used for up to 1.5 h in real-time imaging, with a maximum of 10 to 15 exposures taken within this time. 106 development research towards PfNDH2 inhibitors did not appear to slow down (21-23) after these results were reported 107 (25), nor even when the type II NADH dehydrogenase in the rodent malaria parasite P. berghei, PbNDH2, was genetically 108 ablated in 2011 (28) . Afterwards, samples were washed with 1% FCS-DMEM, fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde-phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) for 10 min, and mounted with Moviol. HDQ growth inhibition is not mediated by pyrimidine starvation.HDQ possesses structural similarities to ubiquinol and is believed to interact with the ubiquinol binding site of type II NADH dehydrogenases (13). Protein fractionation and immunoblotting. High substrate concentrations at the beginning of the inhibition process, for example, of glucose-6-phosphate, might also contribute to a timely, limited stabilization of the ATP level until these resources are reduced in concentration. NADH Dehydrogenase (Ubiquinone) Complex I is the first enzyme complex in the respiratory chain, and it accepts electrons from NADH+H+ derived from fat, carbohydrate, and amino acids to create an electrochemical gradient across the inner mitochondrial membrane. It is also called the NADH:quinone oxidoreductase. (B) Kinetics showing the influence of 10 nM complex III inhibitor atovaquone (ATO) and 10 nM, 100 nM, and 1 μM NDH2 inhibitor HDQ on the ΔΨm of individual parasites. To detect bradyzoites, a bradyzoite-specific anti-BAG1 MAb (7E5) (1:500) (3) and a Cy3-conjugated anti-mouse IgG antibody (1:300; Dianova) were used instead. The NADH dehydrogenase Ndh has no homolog in humans, so Mtb Ndh inhibitors could be developed with limited toxicity risk. After fractionation of the T. gondii lysate, ATPase-β was found exclusively in the membrane fraction and was absent in the soluble fraction, suggesting that T. gondii possesses a typical, membrane-associated mitochondrial F1-ATPase (Fig. The primer sets used for cDNA amplification were 5′-CGAGGGGTGGCTGAAAAAGTATCC-3′ and 5′-CAGCGAAGGCCCACGACAAG-3′ for enolase 1, 5′-GACCGGTCGCCTCTCAACAGC-3′ and 5′-CGCGCAAAATAACCGGACACT for bag1, and 5′-CGCCACGGCCGCTACCTGACT-3′ and 5′-TACGCGCCTTCCTCTGCACCC-3′ for β-tubulin, respectively. This was the expected result, since atovaquone, as a complex III inhibitor, blocks the ETC downstream of ubiquinone reduction. The pellet fraction was also resuspended in the same buffer. [15] Both hydrophylic NADH and hydrophobic ubiquinone analogs act at the beginning and the end of the internal electron-transport pathway, respectively. The PCR fragment was cloned into pCR4.0-TOPO (Invitrogen), and the DNA was sequenced. Rotenone and rotenoids are isoflavonoids occurring in several genera of tropical plants such as Antonia (Loganiaceae), Derris and Lonchocarpus (Faboideae, Fabaceae). In Plasmodium, which is lacking all three Fo-forming proteins, a matrix localization of the F1 subunit was previously proposed, which implies that the proton gradient cannot be used for ATP synthesis (29). Freshly released parasites were harvested and immediately stained in suspension with Mitotracker solution (see above), supplemented with 25 mM HEPES (pH 7.4), for 45 min at 37°C. β-Tubulin was used for normalization. Previously, it was demonstrated that low-affinity NDH2 inhibitors in micromolar concentrations were able to inhibit the activity of the P. falciparum NDH2 and led to a collapse of the mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨm) (2). One hundred microliters of the parasite suspension, containing 4 × 106 parasites, was mixed thoroughly with the same volume of BacTiter-Glo reagent and incubated at room temperature for 5 min. HFFs were infected with tachyzoites and cultivated in the presence of 100 nM and 1 μM HDQ for 72 h. Enolase 1 and bag1 mRNA transcripts were determined by real-time PCR. For generating pTet7Sag4-TgATP-β-cmyc-DHFR, the complete open reading frame (ORF) of the T. gondii ATPase β subunit (TgATP-β) (GenBank accession number DQ228960) was amplified from RH cDNA using Pfu polymerase (Promega) with the primer set consisting of primers 5′-TAATGCATAAAATGGCGTCTCCCGCACTC (NsiI) and 5′-TACCTAGGCTTTCCGCTCGCCGCTTCCTG (AvrII). We recently showed by inhibition kinetics that T. gondii NDH2-I is a target of the quinolone-like compound 1-hydroxy-2-dodecyl-4(1H)quinolone (HDQ), which inhibits T. gondii replication in the nanomolar range. However, the overall contribution of oxidative phosphorylation to energy production in relation to other ATP-generating pathways has not been satisfactorily clarified for intracellular T. gondii so far. The ATP level of the harvested parasites was determined using a luminescence assay, and the obtained values were normalized for parasite numbers. 3). Real-time imaging revealed that nanomolar HDQ concentrations led to a ΔΨm collapse within minutes, which is followed by severe ATP depletions of 30% after 1 h and 70% after 24 h. ΔΨm depolarization was attenuated when substrates for other dehydrogenases that can donate electrons to ubiquinone were added to digitonin-permeabilized cells or when infected cultures were treated with the Fo-ATPase inhibitor oligomycin. The highest number of ΔΨm-positive parasites in HDQ-treated cultures was achieved when all four substrates were added simultaneously. This indicates either a high degree of divergence in the lacking parts or an unusual composition of the Fo subunit. Previously described inhibitors of Complex I and NDH2 were evaluated for inhibition of recombinant pfNDH2 activity. Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas. Various concentrations (2 to 64 μM) of digitonin were tested on intracellular parasites, and a final concentration of 2 μM was selected, which did not cause HFF detachment and left the intensity of DiOC6(3) staining intact over a time period of 35 to 45 min. Short-chain quinones such as Q-2, Q-3 and octyl-Q function both as substrates and inhibitors of NADH oxidation in mammalian mitochondria 25, 26, 27, 28, 67. The only high-affinity NDH2 inhibitors described so far are 1-hydroxy-2-alkyl-4(1H)quinolones with long alkyl-site chains, for example, 1-hydroxy-2-dodecyl-4(1H)quinolone (HDQ) (C 12), which possesses structural similarity to ubiquinone. DiOC6(3) staining was applied for live imaging of the T. gondii ΔΨm. DiOC6(3)-stained intracellular parasites were digitonin permeabilized and incubated with HDQ or atovaquone, either alone or in combination with different substrates, for 15 to 25 min at the indicated concentrations. The fraction of ΔΨm-positive parasites gradually decreased from ∼85% after 24 h to 20% after 72 h, while the expression of the bradyzoite markers increased to 70 to 80% (Fig. Oligomycin treatment resulted in a strong increase in levels of ΔΨm-positive parasites (Fig. The inhibitor constants, KI, for EDTA and Mg2+were of values 3.1 and 3.5. All samples were tested for PCR amplification efficiencies according to manufacturer's protocols and software (Roche). 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