Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Malaria Genetics and Resistance Unit, INSERM U1201, Paris, France.
Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2023 May 17;67(5):e0001723. doi: 10.1128/aac.00017-23. Epub 2023 Apr 26.
The ring-stage survival assay is the reference assay to measure Plasmodium falciparum artemisinin partial resistance. The main challenge of the standard protocol is to generate 0-to-3-h postinvasion ring stages (the stage least susceptible to artemisinin) from schizonts obtained by sorbitol treatment and Percoll gradient. We report here a modified protocol facilitating the production of synchronized schizonts when multiple strains are tested simultaneously, by using ML10, a protein kinase inhibitor, that reversibly blocks merozoite egress.
环体生存检测是测量恶性疟原虫青蒿素部分耐药性的参考检测方法。标准方案的主要挑战是从经山梨醇处理和 Percoll 梯度获得的裂殖体中产生 0 至 3 小时的入侵环体阶段(对青蒿素最不敏感的阶段)。我们在此报告一种改良方案,该方案通过使用可逆性阻断裂殖体逸出的蛋白激酶抑制剂 ML10,可在同时检测多个菌株时促进同步化裂殖体的产生。