Altered Drug Transport by Plasmodium Falciparum Chloroquine Resistance Transporter Isoforms Harboring Mutations Associated with Piperaquine Resistance.

Bryce Riegel,P. Roepe

Published 2020 in Biochemistry

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Patterns of multiple amino acid substitutions in the Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter (PfCRT; UniProtKB - Q8IBZ9) have previously been shown to mediate chloroquine resistance (CQR) in P. falciparum malarial parasites. Recent reports suggest that novel mutations in PfCRT may mediate resistance to piperaquine (PPQ), which is used extensively as a partner drug in one prominent artemisinin combination therapy (ACT). How these novel PfCRT isoforms might mediate PPQ resistance (PPQR) is not known. Using codon optimization and other previously perfected methods for PfCRT analysis in yeast, we have expressed all known PPQR - associated PfCRT isoforms in S. cerevisiae yeast and have tested whether these isoforms catalyze PPQ transport. Relationships between relative PPQ vs CQ transport are analyzed for these isoforms vs other previously recognized drug resistance - associated PfCRT isoforms.

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