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- Title
Integrative Genetic Manipulation of Plasmodium cynomolgi Reveals Multidrug Resistance-1 Y976F Associated With Increased In Vitro Susceptibility to Mefloquine.
- Authors
Ward, Kurt E; Christensen, Peter; Racklyeft, Annie; Dhingra, Satish K; Chua, Adeline C Y; Remmert, Caroline; Suwanarusk, Rossarin; Matheson, Jessica; Blackman, Michael J; Kaneko, Osamu; Kyle, Dennis E; Lee, Marcus C S; Moon, Robert W; Snounou, Georges; Rénia, Laurent; Fidock, David A; Russell, Bruce; Bifani, Pablo
- Abstract
The lack of a long-term in vitro culture method has severely restricted the study of Plasmodium vivax , in part because it limits genetic manipulation and reverse genetics. We used the recently optimized Plasmodium cynomolgi Berok in vitro culture model to investigate the putative P. vivax drug resistance marker MDR1 Y976F. Introduction of this mutation using clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats–CRISPR-associated protein 9 (CRISPR-Cas9) increased sensitivity to mefloquine, but had no significant effect on sensitivity to chloroquine, amodiaquine, piperaquine, and artesunate. To our knowledge, this is the first reported use of CRISPR-Cas9 in P. cynomolgi , and the first reported integrative genetic manipulation of this species.
- Subjects
MEFLOQUINE; REVERSE genetics; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM vivax; DRUG resistance
- Publication
Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023, Vol 227, Issue 10, p1121
- ISSN
0022-1899
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/infdis/jiac469