Lima Ana Carolina S, Gomes Claudia Maria C, Tomokane Thaise Y, Campos Marliane Batista, Zampieri Ricardo A, Jorge Carolina L, Laurenti Marcia D, Silveira Fernando T, Corbett Carlos Eduardo P, Floeter-Winter Lucile Maria
Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Patologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Ministério da Saúde, Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde, Instituto Evandro Chagas, Belém, PA, Brazil.
Genet Mol Biol. 2021 Apr 30;44(2):e20200123. doi: 10.1590/1678-4685-GMB-2020-0123. eCollection 2021.
Seven isolates from patients with American cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Amazon region of Brazil were phenotypically suggestive of Leishmania (Viannia) guyanensis/L. (V.) shawi hybrids. In this work, two molecular targets were employed to check the hybrid identity of the putative hybrids. Heat shock protein 70 (hsp70) gene sequences were analyzed by three different polymerase chain reaction (PCR) approaches, and two different patterns of inherited hsp70 alleles were found. Three isolates presented heterozygous L. (V.) guyanensis/L. (V.) shawi patterns, and four presented homozygous hsp70 patterns involving only L. (V.) shawi alleles. The amplicon sequences confirmed the RFLP patterns. The high-resolution melting method detected variant heterozygous and homozygous profiles. Single-nucleotide polymorphism genotyping/cleaved amplified polymorphic site analysis suggested a higher contribution from L. (V.) guyanensis in hsp70 heterozygous hybrids. Additionally, PCR-RFLP analysis targeting the enzyme mannose phosphate isomerase (mpi) gene indicated heterozygous and homozygous cleavage patterns for L. (V.) shawi and L. (V.) guyanensis, corroborating the hsp70 findings. In this communication, we present molecular findings based on partial informative regions of the coding sequences of hsp70 and mpi as markers confirming that some of the parasite strains from the Brazilian Amazon region are indeed hybrids between L. (V.) guyanensis and L. (V.) shawi.
从巴西亚马逊地区患美洲皮肤利什曼病的患者身上分离出的7株菌株,其表型表明可能是圭亚那利什曼原虫(维氏亚属)/肖氏利什曼原虫(维氏亚属)的杂交种。在这项研究中,采用了两个分子靶点来验证这些假定杂交种的杂交身份。通过三种不同的聚合酶链反应(PCR)方法分析了热休克蛋白70(hsp70)基因序列,发现了两种不同的hsp70等位基因遗传模式。三株菌株呈现圭亚那利什曼原虫(维氏亚属)/肖氏利什曼原虫(维氏亚属)杂合模式,四株呈现仅涉及肖氏利什曼原虫(维氏亚属)等位基因的hsp70纯合模式。扩增子序列证实了限制性片段长度多态性(RFLP)模式。高分辨率熔解法检测到变异的杂合和纯合谱。单核苷酸多态性基因分型/酶切扩增多态性位点分析表明,在hsp70杂合杂交种中,圭亚那利什曼原虫(维氏亚属)的贡献更大。此外,针对磷酸甘露糖异构酶(mpi)基因的PCR-RFLP分析表明,肖氏利什曼原虫(维氏亚属)和圭亚那利什曼原虫(维氏亚属)存在杂合和纯合的酶切模式,这与hsp70的研究结果一致。在本报告中,我们基于hsp70和mpi编码序列的部分信息区域作为标记物展示了分子研究结果,证实巴西亚马逊地区的一些寄生虫菌株确实是圭亚那利什曼原虫(维氏亚属)和肖氏利什曼原虫(维氏亚属)的杂交种。