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PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH
卷 107, 期 1, 页码 227-231出版社
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DOI: 10.1007/s00436-010-1867-1
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- Direccion General de Asuntos del Personal Academico, UNAM [PAPIIT IN220710-3]
Control of cellular redox homeostasis is a central issue for all living organisms. Glutathione and thioredoxin enzymatic redox systems are the usual mean used to achieve such a control. However, parasitic platyhelminths studied to date possess a nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-dependent thioredoxin-glutathione reductase (TGR) as the sole redox control system. Thus, TGR is considered as a potential therapeutic target of parasitic platyhelminths, and based on this assumption, the gold compound auranofin is a potent inhibitor of TGR. The aim of this research was to investigate the effect of auranofin on metacestode (cysticerci) of Taenia crassiceps in culture. Accordingly, the time course for viability and respiration of cysticerci in culture was evaluated in the presence of this compound. After 4 h at 10 A mu M auranofin, 90% of cysticerci were alive, but respiration activity had declined by 50%. After 12 h, neither survivors nor respiration was detected; a LD50 for auranofin of 3.8 A mu M was calculated. Interestingly, crude extracts of cysticerci pretreated with 3 A mu M auranofin nearly nil TGR activity (IC50 = 0.6 A mu M). Zymography for TGR in polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis was conducted because the previously mentioned extracts clearly showed a dose-response inactivation of TGR toward auranofin. The killing of cysticerci by this gold compound is most likely related with TGR inactivation. Therefore, further research on the suitability of auranofin as a therapeutic tool in the treatment of cysticercosis in animals and humans is sustained.
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