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  • Title: Alterations in the surface charge of heart muscle cells during interaction with Trypanosoma cruzi.
    Author: Soeiro Mde N, Costa e Silva Filho F, Leal de Meirelles Mde N.
    Journal: Cell Biophys; 1995 Feb; 26(1):21-44. PubMed ID: 7758089.
    Abstract:
    The surface charge of heart muscle cells (HMC) and Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes was estimated during their interaction by means of zeta potential (ZP). Metacyclic and bloodstream trypomastigote, but not amastigote forms, are able to decrease the surface charge of HMC as well as other nonphagocytic cells. However, no alteration could be detected on T. cruzi-infected macrophage cell line. Trypomastigote forms collected from the supernatant after 20 h of contact with HMC also have their ZP value decreased. The analysis of the surface components of both the parasite and HMC involved in such interaction was also carried out. Assays concerning the kinetics of the cell-parasite interaction demonstrated the influence of parasite surface anionogenicity during its interaction with HMC. The binding of bloodstream forms to HMC was enhanced after their incubation with cationized ferritin (CF), whereas phospholipase C and neuraminidase treatments improved and trypsin treatment inhibited parasite uptake in HMC. Conversely, the incubation of HMC with phospholipase C impaired, and with trypsin enhanced, the interiorization of the parasites. These results suggest that trypomastigote forms of T. cruzi may process the surface of HMC and its own surface either by removing molecules or by exposing ligands for their internalization.
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