Pyrimethamine resistant mutations in Plasmodium falciparum
Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology(1992)
摘要
Three mutations in Plasmodium falciparum yielding increased resistance to pyrimethamine were obtained following treatment with chemical mutagens and selection in presence of pyrimethamine. From parasite clone TM4/8.2 a mutant, TM4/8.2/4.1, was produced which raised pyrimethamine resistance about 500 times and was found to involve an amino acid change in the DHFR-TS enzyme molecule from Ser108 to Asn108. A clone of another isolate, T9/94, yielded a mutant, T9/94/300.300, raising pyrimethamine resistance about 10 times and involving an amino acid change from Ile164 to Met164. However, another mutant from T9/94, T9/94/M1-1(b3), although it raised the pyrimethamine resistance 100 times, did not involve any changes in the coding sequence of the DHFR-TS gene, but resulted in the production of about twice as much DHFR-TS enzyme as the original clone T9/94. No amplification of the DHFR-TS gene was detected.
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Plasmodium falciparum,Malaria,Pyrimethamine: Dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthetase,Mutation
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