| dc.contributor.author | Retana Moreira, Lissette | |
| dc.contributor.author | Cornet Gómez, Alberto | |
| dc.contributor.author | Osuna Carrillo De Albornoz, Antonio | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-07-25T08:24:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-07-25T08:24:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-06-29 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Retana Moreira, L.; Steller Espinoza, M.F.; Chacón, Camacho, N.; Cornet-Gomez, A.; Sáenz-Arce, G.; Osuna, A.; Lomonte, B.; Abrahams Sandí, E. Characterization of Extracellular Vesicles Secreted by a Clinical Isolate of Naegleria fowleri and Identification of Immunogenic Components within Their Protein Cargo. Biology 2022, 11, 983. [https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11070983] | es_ES |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10481/76340 | |
| dc.description | Acknowledgments: Transmission electron microscopy was performed at the “Centro de Instrumentación
Científica” of the “Universidad de Granada”. Dynamic light scattering was performed
at the “Laboratorio de Polímeros” of the School of Chemistry, “Universidad Nacional” and atomic
force microscopy imaging was performed at the Physics Department of the same university. Proteomic
analyses were performed at the “Instituto Clodomiro Picado”, of the “Universidad de Costa
Rica”. Special thanks to Oscar Rojas Carrillo for allowing the access to the equipment and for his
methodological support during the dynamic light scattering analyses and Desire Arrieta Murillo and
Jocelyn Cortés Espínola for the technical support during the atomic force microscopy analyses. G.S.-A.
wants to thank “Plan de Mejoramiento Institucional UNA BM-04”, Consejo Nacional de Rectores
(FEES-CONARE) and the “Vicerrectoría de Investigación” of Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica for
funding for equipment. | es_ES |
| dc.description | Data Availability Statement: Mass spectrometry raw files of the data presented in this work are
available from the authors upon reasonable request. | es_ES |
| dc.description | Funding: This research was funded by “Vicerrectoría de Investigación” of the “Universidad de
Costa Rica”, by supporting the research projects C-1061: “Caracterización de antígenos de excreción/
secreción y antígenos somáticos en amebas de vida libre mediante empleo de anticuerpos
policlonales producidos en roedores” and C-2600: “Secreción de vesículas extracelulares por Naegleria
fowleri y evaluación de su potencial rol inmunomodulador en un modelo in vitro”. | es_ES |
| dc.description | Institutional Review Board Statement: The use of animals was performed following the institutional
guidelines (Spanish government regulations (Real Decreto RD1201/05)) and the guidelines of the
European Union (European Directive 2010/63/EU). These experiments were approved by the Ethical
Committee of the University of Granada (235-CEEA-OH-2018) and by the authorities of the Regional
Government of Andalucía (JJAA) (number 12/11/2017/162). | es_ES |
| dc.description.abstract | Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small lipid vesicles released by both prokaryotic and
eukaryotic cells, involved in intercellular communication, immunomodulation and pathogenesis.
In this study, we performed a characterization of the EVs produced by trophozoites of a clinical
isolate of the free-living amoeba Naegleria fowleri (N. fowleri). Size distribution, zeta potential, protein
profile and protease activity were analyzed. Under our incubation conditions, EVs of different sizes
were observed, with a predominant population ranging from 206 to 227 nm. SDS-PAGE revealed
protein bands of 25 to 260 KDa. The presence of antigenic proteins was confirmed byWestern blot,
which evidenced strongest recognition by rat polyclonal antibodies raised against N. fowleri in the
region close to 80 KDa and included peptidases, as revealed by zymography. Proteins in selected
immunorecognized bands were further identified using nano-ESI-MS/MS. A preliminary proteomic
profile of the EVs identified at least 184 proteins as part of the vesicles’ cargo. Protease activity assays,
in combination with the use of inhibitors, revealed the predominance of serine proteases. The present
characterization uncovers the complexity of EVs produced by N. fowleri, suggesting their potential
relevance in the release of virulence factors involved in pathogenicity. Owing to their cargo’s diversity,
further research on EVs could reveal new therapeutic targets or biomarkers for developing rapid and
accurate diagnostic tools for lethal infections such as the one caused by this amoeba. | es_ES |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Vicerrectoría de Investigación” of the Universidad de Costa Rica by supporting the research projects C-1061: “Caracterización de antígenos de excreción/ secreción y antígenos somáticos en amebas de vida libre mediante empleo de anticuerpos policlonales producidos en roedores” and C-2600: “Secreción de vesículas extracelulares por Naegleria fowleri y evaluación de su potencial rol inmunomodulador en un modelo in vitro” | es_ES |
| dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
| dc.publisher | MDPI | es_ES |
| dc.rights | Atribución 4.0 Internacional | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | * |
| dc.subject | Extracellular vesicles | es_ES |
| dc.subject | Naegleria fowleri | es_ES |
| dc.subject | Characterization | es_ES |
| dc.subject | Immunogenic | es_ES |
| dc.subject | Proteases | es_ES |
| dc.subject | Proteome | es_ES |
| dc.title | Characterization of Extracellular Vesicles Secreted by a Clinical Isolate of Naegleria fowleri and Identification of Immunogenic Components within Their Protein Cargo | es_ES |
| dc.type | journal article | es_ES |
| dc.rights.accessRights | open access | es_ES |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/biology11070983 | |
| dc.type.hasVersion | VoR | es_ES |