Use of high-density tiling microarrays to identify mutations globally and elucidate mechanisms of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum
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Use of high-density tiling microarrays to identify mutations globally and elucidate mechanisms of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum
| Title: | Use of high-density tiling microarrays to identify mutations globally and elucidate mechanisms of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum |
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Dharia, Neekesh V; Cassera, María Belén; Westenberger, Scott J; Bopp, Selina ER; Eastman, Rich T; Plouffe, David; Batalov, Serge; Zhou, Yingyao; Fidock, David A; Winzeler, Elizabeth A; Sidhu, Amar Bir; Park, Daniel John; Volkman, Sarah K.; Wirth, Dyann Fergus
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| Citation: | Dharia, Neekesh V., Amar Bir Singh Sidhu, María Belén Cassera, Scott J. Westenberger, Selina E. R. Bopp, Rich T. Eastman, David Plouffe, et al. 2009. Use of high-density tiling microarrays to identify mutations globally and elucidate mechanisms of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum. Genome Biology 10(2): R21. |
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| Abstract: | Background: The identification of genetic changes that confer drug resistance or other phenotypic changes in
pathogens can help optimize treatment strategies, support the development of new therapeutic agents, and provide information about the likely function of genes. Elucidating mechanisms of phenotypic drug resistance can also assist in identifying the mode of action of uncharacterized but potent antimalarial compounds identified in high-throughput chemical screening campaigns against Plasmodium falciparum. Results: Here we show that tiling microarrays can detect de novo a large proportion of the genetic changes that differentiate one genome from another. We show that we detect most single nucleotide polymorphisms or small insertion deletion events and all known copy number variations that distinguish three laboratory isolates using readily accessible methods. We used the approach to discover mutations that occur during the selection process after transfection. We also elucidated a mechanism by which parasites acquire resistance to the antimalarial fosmidomycin, which targets the parasite isoprenoid synthesis pathway. Our microarray-based approach allowed us to attribute in vitro derived fosmidomycin resistance to a copy number variation event in the pfdxr gene, which enables the parasite to overcome fosmidomycin-mediated inhibition of isoprenoid biosynthesis. Conclusions: We show that newly emerged single nucleotide polymorphisms can readily be detected and that malaria parasites can rapidly acquire gene amplifications in response to in vitro drug pressure. The ability to define comprehensively genetic variability in P. falciparum with a single overnight hybridization creates new opportunities to study parasite evolution and improve the treatment and control of malaria. |
| Published Version: | doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-2-r21 |
| Other Sources: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2688282/pdf/ |
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