The Aspartyl Protease Ddi1 Is Essential for Erythrocyte Invasion by the Malaria Parasite
Ridewood, S.; Dirac-Svejstrup, B.; Howell, S. A.; Weston, A.; Lehmann, C.; Patel, A. P.; Collinson, L.; Bingham, R.; Powell, D.; Snijder, A.; Svejstrup, J. Q.; Deu, E.
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Malaria pathology is caused by the exponential replication of Plasmodium parasites in the blood stream. The bottleneck of the parasite life cycle is the invasion of erythrocytes immediately after parasites egress from infected red blood cells. DNA damage-inducible protein 1 (Ddi1) is a conserved eukaryotic proteasome shuttle protein containing an internal retroviral-like protease domain. Using conditional genetics, we now show that the proteolytic activity of the P. falciparum homologue, PfDdi1, is critically required for invasion of red blood cells. Furthermore, PfDdi1 disruption results in the accumulation of highly polyubiquitinated proteins that can be processed by purified PfDdi1 or distant eukaryotic homologues. We also show that PfDdi1 interacts with multiple components of the ubiquitin-proteasome system and that parasites lacking PfDdi1 are more sensitive to proteasome inhibition. Overall, this study establishes PfDdi1 as a key component of the eukaryotic ubiquitin-proteasome system and as a promising antimalarial target.
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