title: Reactive oxygen species-dependent necroptosis in Jurkat T cells induced by pathogenic free-living Naegleria fowleri.
abstract: Naegleria fowleri, a free-living amoeba, is the causative pathogen of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis in humans and experimental mice. N. fowleri is capable of destroying tissues and host cells through lytic necrosis. However, the mechanism by which N. fowleri induces host cell death is unknown. Electron microscopy indicated that incubation of Jurkat T cells with N. fowleri trophozoites induced necrotic morphology of the Jurkat T cells. N. fowleri also induced cytoskeletal protein cleavage, extensive poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase hydrolysis and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) release. Although no activation of caspase-3 was observed in Jurkat T cells co-incubated with amoebae, intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) were strongly generated by NADPH oxidase (NOX). Pretreating cells with necroptosis inhibitor necrostatin-1 or NOX inhibitor diphenyleneiodonium chloride (DPI) strongly inhibited amoeba-induced ROS generation and Jurkat cell death, whereas pan-caspase inhibitor z-VAD-fmk did not. N. fowleri-derived secretory products (NfSP) strongly induced intracellular ROS generation and cell death. Necroptotic effects of NfSP were effectively inhibited by pretreating NfSP with proteinase K. Moreover, NfSP-induced LDH release and intracellular ROS accumulation were inhibited by pretreating Jurkat T cells with DPI or necrostatin-1. These results suggest that N. fowleri induces ROS-dependent necroptosis in Jurkat T cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Medical Biology Institute of Tropical Medicine, College of Medicine Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: K-J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Y S
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Jang
authors.forename: Y A
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Shin
mesh_terms: D016923:Cell Death; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D019169:Jurkat Cells; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism; D019255:NADPH Oxidases; D016848:Naegleria fowleri / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D011065:Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerases / Q000378:metabolism; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species / Q000633:toxicity*; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology* / Q000469:parasitology*
chemical_list: D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase; D019255:NADPH Oxidases; D011065:Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerases