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N-acetylglucosamine supplementation fails to bypass the critical acetylation of glucosamine-6-phosphate required for Toxoplasma gondii replication and invasion
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N-acetylglucosamine supplementation fails to bypass the critical acetylation of glucosamine-6-phosphate required for Toxoplasma gondii replication and invasion
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Journal Article
N-acetylglucosamine supplementation fails to bypass the critical acetylation of glucosamine-6-phosphate required for Toxoplasma gondii replication and invasion
2024
Overview
The cell surface of Toxoplasma gondii is rich in glycoconjugates which hold diverse and vital functions in the lytic cycle of this obligate intracellular parasite. Additionally, the cyst wall of bradyzoites, that shields the persistent form responsible for chronic infection from the immune system, is heavily glycosylated. Formation of glycoconjugates relies on activated sugar nucleotides, such as uridine diphosphate N -acetylglucosamine (UDP-GlcNAc). The glucosamine-phosphate- N -acetyltransferase (GNA1) generates N -acetylglucosamine-6-phosphate critical to produce UDP-GlcNAc. Here, we demonstrate that downregulation of T . gondii GNA1 results in a severe reduction of UDP-GlcNAc and a concomitant drop in glycosylphosphatidylinositols (GPIs), leading to impairment of the parasite’s ability to invade and replicate in the host cell. Surprisingly, attempts to rescue this defect through exogenous GlcNAc supplementation fail to completely restore these vital functions. In depth metabolomic analyses elucidate diverse causes underlying the failed rescue: utilization of GlcNAc is inefficient under glucose-replete conditions and fails to restore UDP-GlcNAc levels in GNA1-depleted parasites. In contrast, GlcNAc-supplementation under glucose-deplete conditions fully restores UDP-GlcNAc levels but fails to rescue the defects associated with GNA1 depletion. Our results underscore the importance of glucosamine-6-phosphate acetylation in governing T . gondii replication and invasion and highlight the potential of the evolutionary divergent GNA1 in Apicomplexa as a target for the development of much-needed new therapeutic strategies.
Publisher
Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subject
/ Acetylglucosamine - metabolism
/ Amides
/ Animals
/ Defects
/ Enzymes
/ Genomes
/ Glucosamine - analogs & derivatives
/ Glucosamine 6-Phosphate N-Acetyltransferase - metabolism
/ Glucose
/ Glucose-6-Phosphate - analogs & derivatives
/ Glucose-6-Phosphate - metabolism
/ Humans
/ Medicine and Health Sciences
/ Mice
/ N-Acetylglucosamine-6-phosphate
/ Proteins
/ Protozoa
/ Protozoan Proteins - genetics
/ Protozoan Proteins - metabolism
/ Research and Analysis Methods
/ Toxoplasmosis - parasitology
/ Uridine
