Author:
Beez Dorothee,Sanchez Cecilia P.,Stein Wilfred D.,Lanzer Michael
Abstract
ABSTRACTThe emergence of artemisinin-resistantPlasmodium falciparummalaria jeopardizes efforts to control this infectious disease. To identify factors contributing to reduced artemisinin susceptibility, we have employed a classical genetic approach by analyzing artemisinin responses in the F1 progeny of a genetic cross. Our data show that reduced artemisinin susceptibility is a multifactorial trait, withpfmdr1and two additional loci (on chromosomes 12 and 13) contributing to it. We further show that the different artemisinin susceptibilities of the progeny strains affect their responses to selection with increasing concentrations of artemisinin. Stable, high-levelin vitroartemisinin resistance rapidly arose in those parasites that were the least artemisinin susceptible among the F1 progeny, whereas progeny that were highly artemisinin susceptible did not acquire stable artemisinin resistance. These data suggest that genetic predisposition favors the acquisition of high-level artemisinin resistance.In vitro-induced artemisinin resistance did not result in cross-resistance to artesunate or artemether, suggesting that resistance to one derivative does not necessarily render the entire drug class ineffective.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Pharmacology (medical),Pharmacology
Cited by
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