Protein kinase A negatively regulates Ca2+ signalling in Toxoplasma gondii

Alessandro Uboldi 1, 2 Mary-Louise Wilde 1, 2 Emi Mcrae 1, 2 Rebecca Stewart 1, 2 Laura Dagley 1, 2 Luning Yang 1, 2, 3 Nicholas Katris 4, 5 Sanduni Hapuarachchi 6 Michael Coffey 1, 2 Adele Lehane 6 Cyrille Botte 5 Ross Waller 4 Andrew Webb 1, 2 Malcolm Mcconville 7 Christopher Tonkin 1, 2, *
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1 WEHI - The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research [Parkville, Australie]
2 Department of Medical Biology [Melbourne, Austalie]
3 School of Medicine [Pékin, Chine]
4 Department of Biochemistry [Cambridge]
5 IAB - Institute for Advanced Biosciences / Institut pour l'Avancée des Biosciences (Grenoble)
6 Research School of Biology [Canberra, Australie]
7 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology [Melbourne, Australie]
Abstract : The phylum Apicomplexa comprises a group of obligate intracellular parasites that alternate between intracellular replicating stages and actively motile extracellular forms that move through tissue. Parasite cytosolic Ca2+ signalling activates motility, but how this is switched off after invasion is complete to allow for replication to begin is not understood. Here, we show that the cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP)-dependent protein kinase A catalytic subunit 1 (PKAc1) of Toxoplasma is responsible for suppression of Ca2+ signalling upon host cell invasion. We demonstrate that PKAc1 is sequestered to the parasite periphery by dual acylation of PKA regulatory subunit 1 (PKAr1). Upon genetic depletion of PKAc1 we show that newly invaded parasites exit host cells shortly thereafter, in a perforin-like protein 1 (PLP-1)-dependent fashion. Furthermore, we demonstrate that loss of PKAc1 prevents rapid down-regulation of cytosolic [Ca2+] levels shortly after invasion. We also provide evidence that loss of PKAc1 sensitises parasites to cyclic GMP (cGMP)-induced Ca2+ signalling, thus demonstrating a functional link between cAMP and these other signalling modalities. Together, this work provides a new paradigm in understanding how Toxoplasma and related apicomplexan parasites regulate infectivity.
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Alessandro Uboldi, Mary-Louise Wilde, Emi Mcrae, Rebecca Stewart, Laura Dagley, et al.. Protein kinase A negatively regulates Ca2+ signalling in Toxoplasma gondii. PLoS Biology, Public Library of Science, 2018, 16 (9), pp.e2005642. ⟨10.1371/journal.pbio.2005642⟩. ⟨inserm-02139070⟩

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