Activation of Akt signaling reduces the prevalence and intensity of malaria parasite infection and lifespan in Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes.
Malaria (Plasmodium spp.) kills nearly one million people annually and this number will likely increase as drug and insecticide resistance reduces the effectiveness of current control strategies. The most important human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, undergoes a complex developmental cycl...
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| author | Vanessa Corby-Harris Anna Drexler Laurel Watkins de Jong Yevgeniya Antonova Nazzy Pakpour Rolf Ziegler Frank Ramberg Edwin E Lewis Jessica M Brown Shirley Luckhart Michael A Riehle |
| author_facet | Vanessa Corby-Harris Anna Drexler Laurel Watkins de Jong Yevgeniya Antonova Nazzy Pakpour Rolf Ziegler Frank Ramberg Edwin E Lewis Jessica M Brown Shirley Luckhart Michael A Riehle |
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| description | Malaria (Plasmodium spp.) kills nearly one million people annually and this number will likely increase as drug and insecticide resistance reduces the effectiveness of current control strategies. The most important human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, undergoes a complex developmental cycle in the mosquito that takes approximately two weeks and begins with the invasion of the mosquito midgut. Here, we demonstrate that increased Akt signaling in the mosquito midgut disrupts parasite development and concurrently reduces the duration that mosquitoes are infective to humans. Specifically, we found that increased Akt signaling in the midgut of heterozygous Anopheles stephensi reduced the number of infected mosquitoes by 60-99%. Of those mosquitoes that were infected, we observed a 75-99% reduction in parasite load. In homozygous mosquitoes with increased Akt signaling parasite infection was completely blocked. The increase in midgut-specific Akt signaling also led to an 18-20% reduction in the average mosquito lifespan. Thus, activation of Akt signaling reduced the number of infected mosquitoes, the number of malaria parasites per infected mosquito, and the duration of mosquito infectivity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-66d5db0cbe164cef9a80b2bef7de2e122022-12-21T21:27:25ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Pathogens1553-73661553-73742010-07-0167e100100310.1371/journal.ppat.1001003Activation of Akt signaling reduces the prevalence and intensity of malaria parasite infection and lifespan in Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes.Vanessa Corby-HarrisAnna DrexlerLaurel Watkins de JongYevgeniya AntonovaNazzy PakpourRolf ZieglerFrank RambergEdwin E LewisJessica M BrownShirley LuckhartMichael A RiehleMalaria (Plasmodium spp.) kills nearly one million people annually and this number will likely increase as drug and insecticide resistance reduces the effectiveness of current control strategies. The most important human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, undergoes a complex developmental cycle in the mosquito that takes approximately two weeks and begins with the invasion of the mosquito midgut. Here, we demonstrate that increased Akt signaling in the mosquito midgut disrupts parasite development and concurrently reduces the duration that mosquitoes are infective to humans. Specifically, we found that increased Akt signaling in the midgut of heterozygous Anopheles stephensi reduced the number of infected mosquitoes by 60-99%. Of those mosquitoes that were infected, we observed a 75-99% reduction in parasite load. In homozygous mosquitoes with increased Akt signaling parasite infection was completely blocked. The increase in midgut-specific Akt signaling also led to an 18-20% reduction in the average mosquito lifespan. Thus, activation of Akt signaling reduced the number of infected mosquitoes, the number of malaria parasites per infected mosquito, and the duration of mosquito infectivity.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/20664791/?tool=EBI |
| spellingShingle | Vanessa Corby-Harris Anna Drexler Laurel Watkins de Jong Yevgeniya Antonova Nazzy Pakpour Rolf Ziegler Frank Ramberg Edwin E Lewis Jessica M Brown Shirley Luckhart Michael A Riehle Activation of Akt signaling reduces the prevalence and intensity of malaria parasite infection and lifespan in Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes. PLoS Pathogens |
| title | Activation of Akt signaling reduces the prevalence and intensity of malaria parasite infection and lifespan in Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes. |
| title_full | Activation of Akt signaling reduces the prevalence and intensity of malaria parasite infection and lifespan in Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes. |
| title_fullStr | Activation of Akt signaling reduces the prevalence and intensity of malaria parasite infection and lifespan in Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Activation of Akt signaling reduces the prevalence and intensity of malaria parasite infection and lifespan in Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes. |
| title_short | Activation of Akt signaling reduces the prevalence and intensity of malaria parasite infection and lifespan in Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes. |
| title_sort | activation of akt signaling reduces the prevalence and intensity of malaria parasite infection and lifespan in anopheles stephensi mosquitoes |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/20664791/?tool=EBI |
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