Person: Bautista Santa Cruz, José Manuel
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José Manuel
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Bautista Santa Cruz
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Veterinaria
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Bioquímica y Biología Molecular
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Bioquímica y Biología Molecular
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Item Microscopic and submicroscopic infection by Plasmodium falciparum: Immunoglobulin M and A profiles as markers of intensity and exposure(Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2022) Paloma Abad; Patricia Marín-García; Marcos Heras; Julius N. Fobil; Alfred G. Hutchful; Díez Martín, Amalia; Puyet Catalina, Antonio; Reyes Palomares, Armando Adolfo; Isabel G. Azcárate; Bautista Santa Cruz, José ManuelAssessment of serological Plasmodium falciparum-specific antibodies in highly endemic areas provides valuable information about malaria status and parasite exposure in the population. Although serological evidence of Plasmodium exposure is commonly determined by Plasmodium-specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) levels; IgM and IgA are likely markers of malaria status that remain relatively unexplored. Previous studies on IgM and IgA responses have been based on their affinity for single antigens with shortage of immune responses analysis against the whole Plasmodium proteome. Here, we provide evidence of how P. falciparum infection triggers the production of specific IgM and IgA in plasma and its relationship with parasite density and changes in hematological parameters. A total of 201 individuals attending a hospital in Breman Asikuma, Ghana, were recruited into this study. Total and P. falciparum-specific IgM, IgA, and IgG were assessed by ELISA and examined in relation to age (0-5, 14-49, and ≥50 age ranges); infection (submicroscopic vs. microscopic malaria); pregnancy and hematological parameters. Well-known IgG response was used as baseline control. P. falciparum-specific IgM and IgA levels increased in the population with the age, similarly to IgG. These data confirm that acquired humoral immunity develops by repeated infections through the years endorsing IgM and IgA as exposure markers in endemic malaria regions. High levels of specific IgA and IgM in children were associated with microscopic malaria and worse prognosis, because most of them showed severe anemia. This new finding shows that IgM and IgA may be used as diagnostic markers in this age group. We also found an extremely high prevalence of submicroscopic malaria (46.27% on average) accompanied by IgM and IgA levels indistinguishable from those of uninfected individuals. These data, together with the observed lack of sensitivity of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) compared to PCR, invoke the urgent need to implement diagnostic markers for submicroscopic malaria. Overall, this study opens the potential use of P. falciparum-specific IgM and IgA as new serological markers to predict malaria status in children and parasite exposure in endemic populations. The difficulties in finding markers of submicroscopic malaria are highlighted, emphasizing the need to explore this field in depth.Item Glutathione peroxidase contributes with heme oxygenase-1 to redox balance in mouse brain during the course of cerebral malaria(Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease, 2013) Linares Gómez, María; Marín-García, Patricia; Martínez-Chacón, Gabriela; Pérez-Benavente, Susana; Puyet Catalina, Antonio; Díez Martín, Amalia; Bautista Santa Cruz, José ManuelOxidative stress has been attributed both a key pathogenic and rescuing role in cerebral malaria (CM). In a Plasmodium berghei ANKA murine model of CM, host redox signaling and functioning were examined during the course of neurological damage. Host antioxidant defenses were early altered at the transcriptional level indicated by the gradually diminished expression of superoxide dismutase-1 (sod-1), sod-2, sod-3 and catalase genes. During severe disease, this led to the dysfunctional activity of superoxide dismutase and catalase enzymes in damaged brain regions. Vitagene associated markers (heat shock protein 70 and thioredoxin-1) also showed a decaying expression pattern that paralleled reduced expression of the transcription factors Parkinson disease 7, Forkhead box O 3 and X-box binding protein 1 with a role in preserving brain redox status. However, the oxidative stress markers reactive oxygen/nitrogen species were not accumulated in the brains of CM mice and redox proteomics and immunohistochemistry failed to detect quantitative or qualitative differences in protein carbonylation. Thus, the loss of antioxidant capacity was compensated for in all cerebral regions by progressive upregulation of heme oxygenase-1, and in specific regions by early glutathione peroxidase-1 induction. This study shows for the first time a scenario of cooperative glutathione peroxidase and heme oxygenase-1 upregulation to suppress superoxide dismutase, catalase, heat shock protein-70 and thioredoxin-1 downregulation effects in experimental CM, counteracting oxidative damage and maintaining redox equilibrium. Our findings reconcile the apparent inconsistency between the lack of oxidative metabolite build up and reported protective effect of antioxidant therapy against CM.Item Iron supplementation in mouse expands cellular innate defences in spleen and defers lethal malaria infection(Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease, 2017) Azcárate, I.G.; Sánchez-Jaut, S.; Marín-García, P.; Linares, M.; Pérez-Benavente, S.; García-Sánchez, M.; Uceda, J.; Kamali, A.N.; Morán-Jiménez, M.-J.; Puyet Catalina, Antonio; Díez Martín, Amalia; Bautista Santa Cruz, José ManuelThe co-endemicity of malnutrition, erythrocytopathies, transmissible diseases and iron-deficiency contribute to the prevalence of chronic anaemia in many populations of the developing world. Although iron dietary supplementation is applied or recommended in at risk populations, its use is controversial due to undesirable outcomes, particularly regarding the response to infections, including highly prevalent malaria. We hypothesized that a boosted oxidative stress due to iron supplementation have a similar impact on malaria to that of hereditary anaemias, enhancing innate response and conditioning tissues to prevent damage during infection. Thus, we have analysed antioxidant and innate responses against lethal Plasmodium yoelii during the first five days of infection in an iron-supplemented mouse. This murine model showed high iron concentration in plasma with upregulated expression of hemoxygenase-1. The sustained homeostasis after this extrinsic iron conditioning, delayed parasitemia growth that, once installed, developed without anaemia. This protection was not conferred by the intrinsic iron overload of hereditary hemochromatosis. Upon iron-supplementation, a large increase of the macrophages/dendritic cells ratio and the antigen presenting cells was observed in the mouse spleen, independently of malaria infection. Complementary, malaria promoted the splenic B and T CD4 cells activation. Our results show that the iron supplementation in mice prepares host tissues for oxidative-stress and induces unspecific cellular immune responses, which could be seen as an advantage to promote early defences against malaria infection.Item Plasmodium falciparum immunodominant IgG epitopes in subclinical malaria(Scientific Reports, 2020) Bautista Santa Cruz, José Manuel; Puyet Catalina, Antonio; Díez Martín, Amalia; Reche Gallardo, Pedro Antonio; Isabel G. Azcárate; Patricia Marín-García; Paloma Abad; Susana Pérez-Benavente; Estela Paz-Artal; Julius N. Fobil; José M. RubioIncomplete non-sterile immunity to malaria is attained in endemic regions after recurrent infections by a large percentage of the adult population, who carry the malaria parasite asymptomatically. Although blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum rapidly elicits IgG responses, the target antigens of partially protective and non-protective IgG antibodies as well as the basis for the acquisition of these antibodies remain largely unknown. We performed IgG-immunomics to screen for P. falciparum antigens and to identify epitopes associated with exposure and clinical disease. Sera from malaria cases identified five prevalent antigens recognized by all analyzed patients' IgGs. Epitope mapping of them, using adult and children sera samples from an endemic malaria region in Ghana segregated into patients with positive or negative subclinical detection of P. falciparum, revealed binding specificity for two 20-mer immunodominant antigenic regions within the START-related lipid transfer protein and the protein disulfide isomerase PDI8. These 20-mer epitopes challenged with sera samples from children under 5 years old displayed specific IgG binding in those with detectable parasitemia, even at subclinical level. These results suggest that humoral response against START and PDI8 antigens may be triggered at submicroscopic parasitemia levels in children and may eventually be used to differentially diagnose subclinical malaria in children.Item Protein Susceptibility to Peroxidation by 4-Hydroxynonenal in Hereditary Hemochromatosis(International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023) Sánchez-Jaut, Sandra ; Pérez-Benavente, Susana ; Abad, Paloma ; Méndez Cuadro, Darío ; Puyet Catalina, Antonio; Díez Martín, Amalia; Galicia Poblet, Gonzalo ; Gómez Domínguez, Elena ; Moran Jiménez, María J. ; Bautista Santa Cruz, José Manuel; Azcárate, Isabel G.Iron overload caused by hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) increases free reactive oxygen species that, in turn, induce lipid peroxidation. Its 4-hydroxynonenal (HNE) by-product is a wellestablished marker of lipid peroxidation since it reacts with accessible proteins with deleterious consequences. Indeed, elevated levels of HNE are often detected in a wide variety of human diseases related to oxidative stress. Here, we evaluated HNE-modified proteins in the membrane of erythrocytes from HH patients and in organs of Hfe−/− male and female mice, a mouse model of HH. For this purpose, we used one- and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, immunoblotting and MALDI-TOF/TOF analysis. We identified cytoskeletal membrane proteins and membrane receptors of erythrocytes bound to HNE exclusively in HH patients. Furthermore, kidney and brain of Hfe−/−mice contained more HNE-adducted protein than healthy controls. Our results identified main HNE-modified proteins suggesting that HH favours preferred protein targets for oxidation by HNE.Item Stress response and cytoskeletal proteins involved in erythrocyte membrane remodeling upon Plasmodium falciparum invasion are differentially carbonylated in G6PD A− deficiency(Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2011) Méndez, Dario; Linares Gómez, María; Díez Martín, Amalia; Puyet Catalina, Antonio; Bautista Santa Cruz, José ManuelMultiple glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD)-deficient alleles have reached polymorphic frequencies because of the protection they confer against malaria infection. A protection mechanism based on enhanced phagocytosis of parasitized G6PD-deficient erythrocytes that are oxidatively damaged is well accepted. Although an association of this phenotype with the impairment of the antioxidant defense in G6PD deficiency has been demonstrated, the dysfunctional pathway leading to membrane damage and modified exposure of the malaria-infected red cell to the host is not known. Thus, in this study, erythrocytes from the common African variant G6PD A− were used to analyze by redox proteomics the major oxidative changes occurring in the host membrane proteins during the intraerythrocytic development of Plasmodium falciparum, the most lethal malaria parasite. Fifteen carbonylated membrane proteins exclusively identified in infected G6PD A− red blood cells revealed selective oxidation of host proteins upon malarial infection. As a result, three pathways in the host erythrocyte were oxidatively damaged in G6PD A−: (1) traffic/assembly of exported parasite proteins in red cell cytoskeleton and surface, (2) oxidative stress defense proteins, and (3) stress response proteins. Additional identification of hemichromes associated with membrane proteins also supports a role for specific oxidative modifications in protection against malaria by G6PD polymorphisms.Item Proteomic Approaches to Identifying Carbonylated Proteins in Brain Tissue(Journal of Proteome Research (JPR), 2011) Linares Gómez, María; Marín-García, Patricia ; Méndez, Darío ; Puyet Catalina, Antonio; Díez Martín, Amalia; Bautista Santa Cruz, José ManuelOxidative stress plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of a number of diseases. The carbonyl end products of protein oxidation are among the most commonly measured markers of oxidation in biological samples. Protein carbonyl functional groups may be derivatized with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine (DNPH) to render a stable 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazone-protein (DNP-protein) and the carbonyl contents of individual proteins then determined by two-dimensional electrophoresis followed by immunoblotting using specific anti-DNP antibodies. Unfortunately, derivatization of proteins with DNPH could affect their mass spectrometry (MS) identification. This problem can be overcome using nontreated samples for protein identification. Nevertheless, derivatization could also affect their mobility, which might be solved by performing the derivatization step after the initial electrophoresis. Here, we compare two-dimensional redox proteome maps of mouse cerebellum acquired by performing the DNPH derivatization step before or after electrophoresis and detect differences in protein patterns. When the same approach is used for protein detection and identification, both methods were found to be useful to identify carbonylated proteins. However, whereas pre-DNPH derivatized proteins were successfully analyzed, high background staining complicated the analysis when the DNPH reaction was performed after transblotting. Comparative data on protein identification using both methods are provided.Item Estandarización de un modelo murino de malaria cerebral en fases clínicas para la evaluación de terapias antimaláricas y de rescate(Anales de la Real Academia de Farmacia, 2013) Martínez, Gabriela; Linares Gómez, María; Marín-García, Patricia; Pérez-Benavente, Susana; Puyet Catalina, Antonio; Bautista Santa Cruz, José Manuel; Díez Martín, AmaliaEntre las enfermedades infecciosas más devastadoras del SNC se incluye la MC, debido a la alta mortalidad y las graves secuelas que ocasiona. Actualmente, no existe tratamiento farmacológico específico, ni de rescate de lesiones neurocognitivas residuales, y su desarrollo está limitado por la inexistencia de modelos experimentales bien definidos. En este trabajo se caracterizó fenotípicamente la infección en un modelo murino de MC evaluando parámetros clínicos que permitieron establecer cuatro estadios de la enfermedad. Este protocolo proporciona el marco experimental adecuado para estudiar terapias coadyuvantes neuroprotectoras que puedan prevenir y/o eliminar las secuelas neurológicas presentes en los individuos que sobreviven.Item Shotgun Characterization of the Circulating IgM Antigenome of an Infectious Pathogen by Immunocapture-LC–MS/MS from Dried Serum Spots(Journal of Proteome Research, 2024) Abad González, Paloma; Coronado Brieva, Montserrat; Vincelle-Nieto, África; Pérez Benavente, Susana; Fobil, Julius N.; Puyet Catalina, Antonio; Díez Martín, Amalia; Reyes Palomares, Armando Adolfo; Azcárate, Isabel G.; Bautista Santa Cruz, José ManuelOne of the main challenges in compiling the complete collection of protein antigens from pathogens for the selection of vaccine candidates or intervention targets is to acquire a broad enough representation of them to be recognized by the highly diversified immunoglobulin repertoire in human populations. Dried serum spot sampling (DSS) retains a large repertoire of circulating immunoglobulins from each individual that can be representative of a population, according to the sample size. In this work, shotgun proteomics of an infectious pathogen based on DSS sampling coupled with IgM immunoprecipitation, liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS), and bioinformatic analyses was combined to characterize the circulating IgM antigenome. Serum samples from a malaria endemic region at different clinical statuses were studied to optimize IgM binding efficiency and antibody leaching by varying serum/immunomagnetic bead ratios and elution conditions. The method was validated using Plasmodium falciparum extracts identifying 110 of its IgM-reactive antigens while minimizing the presence of human proteins and antibodies. Furthermore, the IgM antigen recognition profile differentiated between malaria-infected and noninfected individuals at the time of sampling. We conclude that a shotgun proteomics approach offers advantages in providing a high-throughput, reliable, and clean way to identify IgM-recognized antigens from trace amounts of serum. The mass spectrometry raw data and metadata have been deposited with ProteomeXchange via MassIVE with the PXD identifier PXD043800.Item Brain-derived neurotrophic factor and the course of experimental cerebral malaria(Brain Research, 2013) Linares Gómez, María; Patricia Marín-García; Susana Pérez-Benavente; Jesús Sánchez-Nogueiro; Puyet Catalina, Antonio; Bautista Santa Cruz, José Manuel; Díez Martín, AmaliaThe role of neurotrophic factors on the integrity of the central nervous system (CNS) during cerebral malaria (CM) infection remains obscure, but the long-standing neurocognitive sequelae often observed in rescued children can be attributed in part to the modulation of neuronal survival and synaptic plasticity. To discriminate the contribution of key responses in the time-sequence of the pathogenic events that trigger the development of neurocognitive malaria syndrome we defined four stages (I–IV) of the neurological progression of CM in C57BL/6 mice infected with Plasmodium berghei ANKA. Upregulation of ICAM-1, VCAM-1, e-selectin and p-selectin expression was detected in all cerebral regions before parasitized red blood cells (pRBC) accumulation. As the severity of symptoms increased, BDNF mRNA progressively diminished in several brain regions, earliest in the thalamus–hypothalamus, cerebellum, brainstem and cortex, and correlated with a four-stage disease sequence. Immunohistochemical confocal microscopy revealed changes in the BDNF distribution pattern, suggesting altered axonal transport. During CM progression, molecular markers of neurological infection and inflammation in the parasite and the host, respectively, were accompanied by a switch in the brain constitutive proteasome to the immunoproteasome, which could impede normal protein turnover. In parallel with BDNF downregulation, NCAM expression also diminished with increased CM severity. Together, these data suggest that changes in BDNF availability could be involved in the pathogenesis of CM.