Use of In Vivo and In Vitro Systems to Select Leishmania amazonensis Expressing Green Fluorescent Protein

Various Leishmania species were engineered with green fluorescent protein (GFP) using episomal vectors that encoded an antibiotic resistance gene, such as aminoglycoside geneticin sulphate (G418). Most reports of GFP-Leishmania have used the flagellated extracellular promastigote, the stage of paras...

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Published in:Korean journal of parasitology 2011-12, Vol.49 (4), p.357-364
Main Authors: Costa, Solange dos Santos, de Assis Golim, Marjorie, Rossi-Bergmann, Bartira, Costa, Fabio Trindade Maranhão, Giorgio, Selma
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amebicides - pharmacology
Animals
Flow Cytometry
Gentamicins - pharmacology
Green Fluorescent Proteins - chemistry
Host-Parasite Interactions
Leishmania mexicana - drug effects
Leishmania mexicana - genetics
Leishmania mexicana - growth & development
Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous - parasitology
Luminescent Agents - chemistry
Macrophages, Peritoneal - parasitology
Mice
Mice, Inbred BALB C
Organisms, Genetically Modified
Original
Spectrometry, Fluorescence
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Summary:Various Leishmania species were engineered with green fluorescent protein (GFP) using episomal vectors that encoded an antibiotic resistance gene, such as aminoglycoside geneticin sulphate (G418). Most reports of GFP-Leishmania have used the flagellated extracellular promastigote, the stage of parasite detected in the midgut of the sandfly vector; fewer studies have been performed with amastigotes, the stage of parasite detected in mammals. In this study, comparisons were made regarding the efficiency for in vitro G418 selection of GFP-Leishmania amazonensis promastigotes and amastigotes and the use of in vivo G418 selection. The GFP-promastigotes retained episomal plasmid for a prolonged period and G418 treatment was necessary and efficient for in vitro selection. In contrast, GFP-amastigotes showed low retention of the episomal plasmid in the absence of G418 selection and low sensitivity to antibiotics in vitro. The use of protocols for G418 selection using infected BALB/c mice also indicated low sensitivity to antibiotics against amastigotes in cutaneous lesions.
ISSN:0023-4001
1738-0006
DOI:10.3347/kjp.2011.49.4.357