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Genome scanning of amazonian plasmodium falciparum shows subtelomeric instability and clindamycin-resistant parasites

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  • Dharia, Neekesh, Ph.D. in Biology, Scripps Research 2005 - 2009

authors

  • Dharia, Neekesh
  • Plouffe, D.
  • Bopp, S. E. R.
  • Gonzalez-Paez, G. E.
  • Lucas, C.
  • Salas, C.
  • Soberon, V.
  • Bursulaya, B.
  • Kochel, T. J.
  • Bacon, D. J.
  • Winzeler, Elizabeth

publication date

  • November 2010

journal

  • Genome Research  Journal

abstract

  • Here, we fully characterize the genomes of 14 Plasmodium falciparum patient isolates taken recently from the Iquitos region using genome scanning, a microarray-based technique that delineates the majority of single-base changes, indels, and copy number variants distinguishing the coding regions of two clones. We show that the parasite population in the Peruvian Amazon bears a limited number of genotypes and low recombination frequencies. Despite the essentially clonal nature of some isolates, we see high frequencies of mutations in subtelomeric highly variable genes and internal var genes, indicating mutations arising during self-mating or mitotic replication. The data also reveal that one or two meioses separate different isolates, showing that P. falciparum clones isolated from different individuals in defined geographical regions could be useful in linkage analyses or quantitative trait locus studies. Through pairwise comparisons of different isolates we discovered point mutations in the apicoplast genome that are close to known mutations that confer clindamycin resistance in other species, but which were hitherto unknown in malaria parasites. Subsequent drug sensitivity testing revealed over 100-fold increase of clindamycin EC(50) in strains harboring one of these mutations. This evidence of clindamycin-resistant parasites in the Amazon suggests that a shift should be made in health policy away from quinine + clindamycin therapy for malaria in pregnant women and infants, and that the development of new lincosamide antibiotics for malaria should be reconsidered.

subject areas

  • Antimalarials
  • Base Sequence
  • Chromosomal Instability
  • Chromosome Mapping
  • Clindamycin
  • DNA Copy Number Variations
  • Drug Resistance
  • Female
  • Gene Frequency
  • Genome, Protozoan
  • Genotype
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Malaria, Falciparum
  • Male
  • Models, Biological
  • Models, Molecular
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Pedigree
  • Peru
  • Plasmodium falciparum
  • Pregnancy
  • Telomere
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Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC2963817

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 1088-9051

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1101/gr.105163.110

PubMed ID

  • 20829224
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 1534

end page

  • 1544

volume

  • 20

issue

  • 11

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