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Regulation of host cell survival by intracellular Plasmodium and Theileria parasites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2006

V. HEUSSLER ,
A. STURM  and
G. LANGSLEY
V. HEUSSLER
Affiliation:
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Bernhard-Nocht-Str. 74, 20359 Hamburg, Germany
A. STURM
Affiliation:
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Bernhard-Nocht-Str. 74, 20359 Hamburg, Germany
G. LANGSLEY
Affiliation:
Institut Cochin, U567 INSERM /UMR 8104 CNRS/Fac de Medecine Paris V, Département Maladies Infectieuses, 22 rue Mechain, 75014 Paris, France
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Abstract

Plasmodium and Theileria parasites are obligate intracellular protozoa of the phylum Apicomplexa. Theileria infection of bovine leukocytes induces transformation of host cells and infected leukocytes can be kept indefinitely in culture. Theileria-dependent host cell transformation has been the subject of interest for many years and the molecular basis of this unique phenomenon is quite well understood. The equivalent life cycle stage of Plasmodium is the infection of mammalian hepatocytes, where parasites reside for 2–7 days depending on the species. Some of the molecular details of parasite-host interactions in P. berghei-infected hepatocytes have emerged only very recently. Similar to what has been shown for Theileria-infected leukocytes these data suggest that malaria parasites within hepatocytes also protect their host cell from programmed cell death. However, the strategies employed to inhibit host cell apoptotic pathways appear to be different to those used by Theileria. This review discusses similarities and differences at the molecular level of Plasmodium- and Theileria-induced regulation of the host cell survival machinery.

Keywords

PlasmodiumTheileriaapoptosissignal transduction
Type
Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 132 , Supplement S1: Programmed cell death and the protozoan parasite , March 2006 , pp. S49 - S60
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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