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Volume 270, Number 10, Issue of March 10, 1995 pp. 5172-5180
©1995 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.
A 120-kDa Alkaline Peptidase from Trypanosoma cruzi Is Involved in the Generation of a Novel Ca-signaling Factor for Mammalian Cells

(Received for publication, November 17, 1994; and in revised form, January 4, 1995)

Barbara A. Burleigh Norma W. Andrews

Trypomastigotes, the infective stages of the intracellular parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, induce rapid and repetitive cytosolic free Ca transients in fibroblasts. Buffering or depletion of intracellular free Ca inhibits cell entry by trypomastigotes, indicating a role for this signaling event in invasion. We show here that the majority of the Ca-signaling activity is associated with the soluble fraction of parasites disrupted by sonication. Distinct cell types from different species are responsive to this soluble factor, and intracellular free Ca transients occur rapidly and reach concentrations comparable to responses induced by thrombin and bombesin. The Ca-signaling activity does not bind concanavalin A and is strongly inhibited by a specific subset of protease inhibitors. The only detectable protease in the fractions with Ca-signaling activity is an unusual alkaline peptidase of 120 kDa, to which no function had been previously assigned. The activity of the protease and cell invasion by trypomastigotes are blocked by the same specific inhibitors that impair Ca-signaling, suggesting that the enzyme is required for generating the response leading to infection. We demonstrate that the 120-kDa peptidase is not sufficient for triggering Ca-signaling, possibly being involved in the processing of precursors present only in infective trypomastigotes. These findings indicate a biological function for a previously identified unusual protozoan protease and provide the first example of a proteolytically generated parasite factor with characteristics of a mammalian hormone.




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