Beri, D and Ramdani, G and Balan, B and Gadara, D and Poojary, M and Momeux, L and Tatu, U and Langsley, G (2019) Insights into physiological roles of unique metabolites released from Plasmodium-infected RBCs and their potential as clinical biomarkers for malaria. In: Scientific Reports, 9 (1). p. 2875.
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Abstract
Plasmodium sp. are obligate intracellular parasites that derive most of their nutrients from their host meaning the metabolic circuitry of both are intricately linked. We employed untargeted, global mass spectrometry to identify metabolites present in the culture supernatants of P. falciparum-infected red blood cells synchronized at ring, trophozoite and schizont developmental stages. This revealed a temporal regulation in release of a distinct set of metabolites compared with supernatants of non-infected red blood cells. Of the distinct metabolites we identified pipecolic acid to be abundantly present in parasite lysate, infected red blood cells and infected culture supernatant. Further, we performed targeted metabolomics to quantify pipecolic acid concentrations in both the supernatants of red blood cells infected with P. falciparum, as well as in the plasma and infected RBCs of P. berghei-infected mice. Measurable and significant hyperpipecolatemia suggest that pipecolic acid has the potential to be a diagnostic marker for malaria. © 2019, The Author(s).
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Scientific Reports |
| Publisher: | SCIENTIFIC REPORTS |
| Additional Information: | copy right of this article belongs to SCIENTIFIC REPORTS |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Biochemistry |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Mar 2019 05:53 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Sep 2022 05:41 |
| URI: | https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/61982 |
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