Avaliação da atividade ecto-nucleotidásica de L. infantum e sua modulação na adesão e infecção de macrófagos humanos

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Cunha, Luana Celina Seraphim
• Orientador(a): Almeida, Roque Pacheco de
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Sergipe
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Ciências da saúde; Leishmaniose Visceral; Infecção; Macrófago; Enzima; E-NTPDase; Leishmania infantum; Leishmania chagasi; Nucleotídeos extracelulares; Extracellular nucleotides; Ecto-NTPDase activities
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS DA SAUDE
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/3613

Visceral leishmaniasis is a neglected disease caused by Leishmania infantum in Brazil. The Ecto-NTPDase activities, described in various parasites including Leishmania, is involved in adhesion, infection and virulence of these parasites, functioning as a molecular mechanism able to modulate the host immune response and promoting the disease progression. E-NTPDases are enzymes that hydrolyze nucleotides tri and/or di-phosphate into monophosphate products. The extracellular metabolism of these nucleotides has an important role in infection by L. infantum and other intracellular pathogens. These nucleotides are powerful extracellular signals involved in various cellular processes, which are part of the purinergic signalling that modulates the immune response. The objective of this study was to evaluate the role of ecto-NTPDase activities in adherence and infection of L. infantum in human macrophages. The ecto-NTPDase activities of parasites were evaluated in four different media or conditions: (1) purine-depleted, (2) adenosine-enriched, (3) with inhibitor of ecto-NTPDase activities, and (4) with anti-E antibody NTPDase 1. The effects of these treatments on the adhesion and infection of these parasites in human macrophages were investigated. Immunolocalization of the E-NTPDase in the membrane of L. infantum was also evaluated. The ecto-nucleotidase activity is modulated according to the availability of adenosine in the medium. Parasites cultivated in a purine-depleted medium showed increased hydrolytic capacity of nucleotides and higher infectivity. Parasites grown in adenosine-enriched medium had lower ecto-nucleotidase activity and infectivity. Growing parasites with an inhibitor of Ecto-NTPDase activities led to an increase in the adherence of Leishmania to non-phagocytic cells. E-NTPDase enzymes responsible for the hydrolysis of nucleotides are present in the membrane of L. infantum. The higher hydrolysis capacity is associated with increased adhesion capacity and infection of these parasites in human macrophages.