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Parasite
Volume 26, 2019
Article Number 69
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DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2019069
Published online 29 November 2019

© J. Meade et al., published by EDP Sciences, 2019

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Introduction

Human infection by insect-borne parasites of the family Trypanosomatidae (Leishmania and Trypanosoma) is a significant public health problem with widespread disease and limited therapeutic options. Leishmaniasis is endemic in 97 countries, putting 350 million people at risk, and there are an estimated 12 million individuals currently infected, with 700,000–1,000,000 new cases and 26,000–65,000 deaths worldwide each year [177, 178]. Clinical manifestations of leishmaniasis include localized skin lesions (cutaneous leishmaniasis), erosion of nasal and oropharyngeal mucosa (mucocutaneous leishmaniasis) or, in visceral leishmaniasis, dissemination throughout the host reticuloendothelial system; as intracellular forms in the spleen, liver and bone marrow. Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) causes 50,000–90,000 new infections annually and the development of clinical disease is generally fatal if untreated. Leishmania-HIV co-infection is a serious and growing problem in many areas as HIV dramatically increases the risk of fulminant VL, and VL promotes the clinical progression of HIV [84]. Chagas disease, infection with Trypanosoma cruzi, is a major illness in Latin America with 6–7 million infected individuals, 25 million at risk of infection, and an annual death toll of over 10,000 [179]. It is also an emerging public health problem in the United States, Canada, and Europe due to immigration; an estimated 300,000 infected individuals reside in the United States and 67,000 live in Spain [17, 57]. Acute infection from T. cruzi trypomastigotes circulating in the bloodstream can be mild to severe with fatalities resulting from myocardial damage. Chronic Chagas disease occurs after trypomastigotes enter cells, particularly myocardial cells, to grow as intracellular amastigotes. Clinical manifestations can appear decades later and include chronic chagasic heart disease (cardiomegaly, dysrhythmias, and cardiomyopathy), due to destruction of cardiac innervation and myocardial cells, and chronic gastrointestinal disease (megaesophagus and megacolon) caused by impaired autonomous neuronal regulation. Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense and T. b. gambiense are causative agents of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) or “sleeping sickness” and if untreated the disease is generally fatal. As recently as 2006, HAT infected 50,000–70,000 people annually, but through the sustained efforts of the World Health Organization and public health officials in affected countries, the annual burden of disease was reduced to less than 3000 cases in 2015 [24, 176]. In HAT infection, circulating trypomastigotes initially cause perivascular leukocytosis and inflammation of the lymph nodes, spleen, vascular epithelium, and endocardium, with death often the result of myocardial damage. The terminal stage of “sleeping sickness” is the result of advanced neurologic involvement as trypomastigotes enter the brain and cerebrospinal fluid (CNS). Infection with T. b. rhodesiense is rapidly fatal (weeks) with early CNS involvement and recurrent waves of high parasitemia. Trypanosoma brucei gambiense infection produces a chronic disease with low blood parasitemia and late CNS involvement that ends fatally years later. Each of these trypanosomatid infections can be associated with serious medical complications and fatal outcomes, even when treatment is administered. Chemotherapeutic interventions for these diseases are inadequate due to toxic side effects and drug resistance to the current treatment regimens, and there is an urgent need for improved therapeutic alternatives.

These organisms have a complex digenetic life cycle with different morphologic forms in the human host and within the insect vectors of the disease; sandflies for Leishmania, tsetse flies for African trypanosomes, and reduviid bugs for Trypanosoma cruzi infection. The Leishmania life cycle alternates between intracellular amastigote stages in the mammalian host and procyclic promastigotes and non-dividing infectious metacyclic promastigotes in the insect vector. The Trypanosoma cruzi life cycle also has intracellular amastigote stages and trypomastigotes present in the mammalian host and epimastigote and non-dividing infectious trypomastigote forms in the insect vector. The Trypanosoma brucei life cycle includes procyclic trypomastigotes, epimastigotes, and infectious metacyclic trypomastigotes in the insect host and both dividing (slender) and non-dividing (stumpy) trypomastigote forms in the mammalian host.

Adaptation of the trypanosomatids to these differing environs, and the abrupt transitions that occur, present a challenge for the parasites to adjust to the changing ionic environments and to the structural modifications required for their morphologic changes. The maintenance of intracellular ion homeostasis is critical to growth and survival in all organisms. Proper ionic balance is required for a wide array of cellular processes including regulating osmolarity and cell volume, maintaining pH homeostasis, controlling levels of toxic ions such as heavy metals, providing co-factors for protein function and cellular signaling pathways, and establishing membrane potentials to energize secondary transport systems. To counter the different ionic environments they encounter, cells have evolved a diverse array of proteins to regulate and move ions across both internal and external cellular membranes. These include passive systems such as ion exchangers, ion symporters, and ion channels, as well as active transport systems which require energy for ion movement. The crucial players in this regulation of cellular ion homeostasis are the P-type ATPases which are the only ion transport proteins capable of moving ions against a concentration gradient and thus can facilitate and coordinate the activity of other ion motive mechanisms. This study examines the complete genomes of the human pathogenic Trypanosomatidae in order to identify their complement of P-type ATPases and to correlate current molecular and biochemical knowledge of their function with trypanosomatid adaptation and survival.

P-type ATPases

P-type ATPases are ubiquitous in nature and have been described in archaebacteria, eubacteria, protozoa, fungi, plants, invertebrates and vertebrates. Proteins of the P-type ATPase family utilize the energy of ATP hydrolysis to transport ions across plasma and organellar membranes and to generate membrane lipid asymmetry [27, 119, 159]. P-type ATPases transport heavy metal ions, K+, H+, Na+, Ca2+, and Mg2+ ions, and are capable of translocating large phospholipid molecules across membranes. P-type ATPases are typically inhibited by orthovanadate. P-type ATPases are multi-domain membrane proteins with molecular masses ranging from 70 kDa to 150 kDa and share conserved sequence motifs and a common structural organization. All of the P-type ATPases have a similar tertiary structure in their catalytic subunits and a common reaction cycle with two conformational states (E1 and E2), characterized by the reversible phosphorylation of a conserved aspartate residue, which is part of the phosphorylation site motif DKTGT. The P-type ATPases contain 6–13 hydrophobic transmembrane domains (TMs), typically with cytoplasmic exposure for the amino and carboxyl termini of the proteins, which may contain regulatory elements. P1A-ATPases contain 7 TMs, P1B-ATPases have 6–8 TMs, P2, P3 and P4-ATPases each have 10 TMs, and P5-ATPases have 11–13 TMs [159]. The catalytic core of P-type ATPases consists of six membrane-spanning domains (TM1–TM6) and three hydrophilic, cytosolic functional domains designated as the B-domain or actuator domain, the C-domain, and the J-domain or hinge domain. Nine distinct amino acid motifs, conserved in the P-type ATPase superfamily, have also been identified: PGD, PAD, TGES, PEGL, DKTGTLT, KGAPE, DPPR, MVTGD, and VAVTGDGVNDSPALKKADIGVAM [106]. The B-domain, between TM2 and TM3, contains the first three motifs (PGD, PAD, TGES) and functions to stabilize the transition between the E1 and E2 states. The PEGL motif is found near the end of TM4 and probably contributes to energy transduction. The C-domain contains the DKTGTLT motif which includes the transiently phosphorylated aspartyl residue, the KGAPE motif which participates in ATP binding, the DPPR motif which is involved in phosphate binding and phosphorylation, and the MVTGD motif that is also essential for enzyme phosphorylation. The VAVTGDGVNDSPALKKADIGVAM motif is within the J-domain, which forms a flexible hinge region to allow the conformational changes necessary for ion translocation. Structural analysis indicates that the ion binding sites are located within the intramembrane regions of the pumps. These sites are accessible to the cytoplasm side in the E1 conformation, and accessible to the extracellular side in the E2 conformation [23, 106].

Based on shared sequence homologies, a phylogenetic analysis of P-type ATPases has identified five major evolutionary subfamilies (designated P1–P5) with P1, P2, P3, and P5-ATPases further subdivided into eleven additional classes. Each of these subfamilies and classes is characterized by unique substrate specificity and group-specific sequence motifs [8]. An alternative classification based on the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) conventions for transporter classification identifies 9 functionally characterized and 20 functionally uncharacterized families in the P-type ATPase superfamily designated 3.A.3.1–3.A.3.25, 27, 30–32 [142, 159]. This report uses the P1–P5-ATPase classification of Axelsen and Palmgren [8] as it is much more widely utilized. However, where appropriate, the nomenclature of the IUBMB is also included for clarity, identified as P-type ATPase (3.A.3.) families 1–32 for the transporter classification database (TCDB), where they are maintained (http://www.tcdb.org). The P1A-ATPases (3.A.3.7) are bacterial membrane transporters of K+ ions. The P1B-ATPases (3.A.3.5 and 3.A.3.6) transport heavy metals such as copper, cadmium, lead, and zinc. The P2 subfamily transports non-heavy metal cations; P2A- and P2B-ATPases (3.A.3.2) transport Ca2+ ions and are located in internal organelles, particularly the sarcoplasmic and endoplasmic reticulum (SERCA), and in the plasma membrane (PMCA) respectively, P2C-ATPases (3.A.3.1) are Na+/K+- and H+/K+-ATPases, and P2D- and P2E-ATPases (3.A.3.9) function as either efflux or influx proteins, respectively in the transport of K+ and Na+ ions. The P3-ATPases translocate H+ (P3A, 3.A.3.3) and Mg2+ (P3B, 3.A.3.4) ions. The P4-ATPases (3.A.3.8) are phospholipid “flippases” which maintain membrane lipid asymmetry by imparting selectivity and directionality to lipid bilayer movement. The final subfamily, consisting of P5A and P5B-ATPases (3.A.3.10–3.A.3.22), does not have an identified substrate specificity or biological function although their involvement in protein maturation, protein secretion, and in anion transport has been proposed.

Although counter-transport of ions has only been documented for the P2A PMCA pumps, the P2B-SERCA pumps, and the P2C Na+/K+-ATPases and gastric H+/K+-ATPases, functional and structural considerations strongly suggest that counter-transport of ions is mandatory in all P-type ATPases [113, 115]. Transport by the P2C Na+/K+-ATPases, the P2B-SERCA, and the P3B proton pumps is electrogenic in nature, and creates an electrochemical gradient that in the case of P2C and P3B pumps functions to drive secondary transport systems [113, 119]. Ion transport by the remainder of the P-type ATPases appears to be electroneutral. The majority of the P-type ATPases consist of a single catalytic unit and do not require the participation of accessory molecules for activity. However, the P2C Na+/K+- and H+/K+-ATPases are heterodimers composed of a catalytic α-subunit and a ~40 kDa, glycosylated, regulatory β-subunit whose co-translational association with the α-subunit is absolutely required for protein maturation, membrane localization, stability and function of P2C ATPases. The P2C Na+/K+-ATPases can be further modified by a third subunit, the gamma or FXYD subunit, which affects substrate affinity and pump activity [132]. The P4-ATPase subfamily of aminophospholipid translocases also requires accessory β-subunit proteins for both correct trafficking to the membrane and lipid translocation activity [120].

P-type ATPase search criteria

This review examines the genome sequences of Leishmania aethiopica, L. braziliensis, L. donovani, L. infantum, L. major, L. mexicana, L. panamensis, L. tropica, Trypanosoma cruzi, Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, and T. b. gambiense maintained in the TriTrypDB database of the EuPathDB database (http://tritrypdb.org), to identify the complete inventory of P-type ATPases in these organisms [7, 18, 43, 45, 46, 67, 68, 86, 121, 139]. The parasite genomes were searched for proteins containing P-type ATPase amino acid signature motifs for the ATP phosphorylation site DKTGT, the Mg+-ATP binding site DGVND, the actuator domain LTGES, and other highly conserved P-type ATPase motifs, DPPR, KGAP and MLTGD. The annotation for predicted protein sequences was also queried for the terms ATPase, P-type ATPase, ion translocation, cation transport, and phospholipid translocation. The P-type ATPase sequences identified were utilized to search for additional homologous genes in these trypanosomatid genomes. As P-type ATPases were found, they were sequentially numbered using the designations of LA, LB, LD, LI, LM, LMX, LP, LT, TB, TBG, and TC for Leishmania aethiopica, L. braziliensis, L. donovani, L. infantum, L. major, L. mexicana, L. panamensis, L. tropica, Trypanosoma brucei, T. b. gambiense, and T. cruzi ATPases, respectively. The P-type ATPases identified in these searches were subjected to a phylogenetic analysis based on the method of Axelsen and Palmgren [8] which extracts the 265 amino acids contained in eight amino acid signature sequences conserved in all P-type ATPases. These trypanosomatid sequences and those from P-type ATPases representative of other prokaryotes and eukaryotes were used to generate evolutionary trees using the phylogenetic inference program PHYLIP version 3.69 [50, 51]. This analysis coupled with the presence of motifs and motif spacing characteristic of different ATPase subfamilies, allowed assignment of the trypanosomatid sequences to the appropriate P-type ATPase subfamilies. The PubMed, GenBank, and the UniProtKB databases were queried to identify P-type ATPases previously described in the trypanosomatid parasites.

P-type ATPases in the Trypanosomatidae

A total of 42 complete P-type ATPase protein sequences, listed in Table 1, were identified in the three trypanosomatid genomes initially reported in 2005; 16 in L. major (strain Friedlin), 12 in T. cruzi (strain CL Brener) and 14 in T. brucei TREU927 (strain 927/4 GUTat10.1) [18, 45, 46, 67]. Since that time, genome sequences for seven additional Leishmania species and two more Trypanosoma species have been reported and are included in this analysis [7, 43, 68, 86, 121, 139]. Available sequence data for other Leishmania and Trypanosoma species were either from non-human pathogens or were incomplete as judged by the absence of functional genes for some essential P-type ATPase subfamilies and were not analyzed. The T. cruzi CL Brener stain used for genome sequencing is a hybrid of two distantly related T. cruzi lineages, designated as Esmeraldo-like and Non-Esmeraldo-like, which initially complicated assignment of chromosome specificity [94, 173]. As a consequence, chromosomal alleles for both Esmeraldo-like (s) and Non-Esmeraldo-like (p) strains are included in the genome data for five T. cruzi ATPases, each represented as nearly identical copies (>97%) on separate contigs (TC1s/TC1p, TC3s/TC3p, TC7s/TC7p, TC11s/TC11p, and TC15s/TC15p), and these duplications are only included once each in the P-type ATPase count for T. cruzi strain CL-Brenner. However, the true complement of P-type ATPases in T. cruzi is likely 14–15, as partial sequences for several homologues of H+-ATPase TC8 were present in different chromosomal locations in the CL-Brener genome sequence and other investigators have reported tandemly linked arrays of three H+-ATPase genes in T. cruzi Y strain and four H+-ATPase genes in the Sylvio X10/7 strain [89, 101]. The differences in the P-type ATPase complement between L. major and the two Trypanosoma species are due to the absence of homologues for calcium motive ATPase LM6 in T. brucei and T. cruzi and for proton motive ATPase LM10 in T. brucei, as well as variable numbers of repeated genes in the additional calcium and proton ATPase loci. The P-type ATPases of the trypanosomatid species were found to be highly syntenic, showing considerable conservation in the surrounding gene order as was true for most of their genome sequence.

Table 1

P-type transport ATPases in the originally sequenced genomes of the Trypanosomatidae, 2005.

P-type ATPases previously characterized are listed in Table 2 and matched with the corresponding protein homologue derived from subsequent genome sequencing data described herein. Information on their function, cellular localization, and transcript expression are also given, if available. Tables 3 and 4 list the P-type ATPases present in eight Leishmania and four Trypanosoma strains, respectively. All of the prior P-type ATPases reported were detected in the trypanosomatid genomes, indicating the reliability of the current search of the trypanosomatid genomes. The trypanosomatid proteins are organized in Tables 14 on the basis of substrate specificity and P-type ATPase subfamily designation. The trypanosomatid parasites possessed ion pumps in the P1B (metal pumps), P2A (SERCA), P2B (PMCA), P2D (Na+ pumps), P3A (H+ pumps), P4 (aminophospholipid translocators), and P5B (no assigned specificity) subfamilies. These represent the P-type ATPase transport functions necessary for survival in the Trypanosomatidae as P-type ATPases for each of these seven subfamilies are found in all Leishmania and Trypanosoma species included in this analysis. Although H+/K+-ATPase activity has been described in L. donovani and Na+/K+-ATPase activity reported for L. mexicana, L. amazonensis, T. brucei, and T. cruzi, no P2C-ATPases which might account for these findings were found in the parasite genomes [25, 35, 49, 72, 95, 111]. No representatives of P1A-ATPases, K+ transporters or P3B-ATPases, Mg++ transporters, both found exclusively in prokaryotes, were identified.

Table 2

Prior characterization of P-type transport ATPases in the Trypanosomatidae.

Table 3

P-type transport ATPases in genomes of eight species of Leishmania.

Table 4

P-type transport ATPases in genomes of four species of Trypanosoma.

Although tandemly linked repeated genes are common in the Trypanosomatidae, most of the P-type ATPases are present as single copy genes (Tables 1, 3, 4). A single gene is present in the P1B (metal pumps), P2A (SERCA), P2D (Na+ pumps) and P5B (no assigned specificity) subfamilies. Several of the P2B (PMCA) ATPase genes are also single copy and each of the five different genes found in the P4 aminophospholipid subfamily are also present in a single copy with the exception of a duplication of the LB15 (LB15–LB17) gene in L. braziliensis. The only additional P-type ATPases present in linked, repeated assemblies in these parasite genomes are P2B ATPases (PMCA) of Trypanosoma brucei (TB3–TB4–TB4b), Leishmania major (LM3–LM4) and L. mexicana (LMx3–LMx4) each separated by a single gene, and P3A ATPases (H+ pumps) of L. major (LM8–LM9), L. infantum (LI8–LI9) and T. brucei (TB8–TB9). Other Leishmania and Trypanosoma species have only a single gene in these two loci, although in many cases gene fragments and pseudogenes are present, indicating the ancestral existence of duplicate genes in these loci. As shown in subsequent sections, differences in the presence and extent of tandem arrays in these P-type ATPase subfamilies as well the presence of loci containing additional P2B ATPase (PMCA) and P3A (H+ pumps) genes in Leishmania species results in a variable content of P-type ATPases among the different Trypanosomatidae species.

P-type ATPases in Leishmania

Table 3 lists the P-type ATPases present in eight species of Leishmania including those causing visceral disease (L. infantum, L. donovani), Old World cutaneous sores (L. aethiopica, L. major, L. tropica), New World cutaneous lesions (L. mexicana), and New World mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (L. braziliensis, L. panamensis). The L. panamensis and L. braziliensis sequences belong to the Viannia subgenus of Leishmania. Alignments of the Leishmania ATPases within each subfamily show them to be highly homologous, generally >90% identical in their core sequences, which exclude amino and carboxyl sequences outside the first and last membrane spanning domains. P-type ATPases from Old World species L. major and L. infantum were usually most closely related in each subfamily and L. panamensis and L. braziliensis proteins were the least homologous as compared to the other species. The differences in protein sizes within each ATPase family were principally due to alterations in the length of the amino and carboxyl ends of the protein, shorter or longer than the consensus length although in several cases internal sequence was missing. The Leishmania ATPases were highly syntenic with identical chromosomal locations, except differences attributable to breakage/fusion rearrangements in chromosomes 8/29 and 20/36 in L. mexicana and chromosomes 20/34 in L. braziliensis and L. panamensis [22, 121]. The ancestral complement of P-type ATPase genes in Leishmania appears to be 16. However, rearrangements, deletions, and duplications have altered this complement as only L. major has 16 functional P-type ATPase genes. The other Leishmania species have reduced numbers of P2B (PMCA), P3A (proton pumps) or P4 (aminophospholipid translocators), with only fragments of the original gene remaining, and Leishmania braziliensis has an additional gene copy (LB17) in the P4-ATPase family, arising from an apparent duplication of LB15.

P-type ATPases in Trypanosoma

Table 4 lists the P-type ATPases present in four Trypanosoma species; Trypanosoma brucei TREU927, T. brucei Lister strain 427, T. brucei gambiense DAL972, and T. cruzi CL Brener. There are 14 P-type ATPases in T. brucei TREU927 and Lister strain 427, 11 in T. brucei gambiense, and 12 in T. cruzi. Trypanosoma brucei TREU927 and Lister strain have repeated genes in the P2B ATPase (PMCA) and P3A (H+ pumps) subfamilies, TB/TBL3–TB/TBL4–TB/TBL4b and TB/TBL8–TB/TBL9 respectively, as compared to T. b. gambiense and T. cruzi which have a single gene in these loci. The three Trypanosoma brucei strains also lack a homologue for TC12, one of the five P4 (aminophospholipid translocators) present in T. cruzi. Homologues for TC12 are present in all eight Leishmania species (Table 3) and it is an interesting speculation that this protein may be involved in the adaptation to an intracellular environment for the Leishmania species and T. cruzi as the T. brucei strains have only extracellular forms in their life cycle. There is considerably less heterogeneity in the Trypanosoma P-type ATPases in each subfamily, both in protein size and identity, as compared to the differences among the different Leishmania species.

The trypanosomatid P-type ATPases are discussed in the following sections on the basis of their subfamily designation, with an emphasis on correlating the genetic and biochemical information available for each P-type ATPase subfamily with the prior reports on their function and transcription provided in Table 2. Data for gene transcription in different life stages are also available for L. donovani, L. infantum, L. major, L. mexicana, T. cruzi, and T. brucei and will also be discussed where appropriate [52, 70, 75, 79, 103, 136, 151, 185]. Transcript expression differences between life stages of less than two-fold are considered as constitutive expression, although it should be noted that regulation of P-type ATPase activity in different stages can be regulated on many levels, including transcript stability, protein stability and turnover, post translational modifications, the necessity and activity of obligatory co-factors, and the presence of regulatory domains within many of these P-type ATPases.

P1B-ATPases (3.A.3.5 and 3.A.3.6)

All organisms require trace amounts of metals ions, principally as cofactors in biological catalysis; over 40% of enzymes classified by EC (Enzyme Commission) number, whose three-dimensional structures have been deposited in the Protein Bank Database, are metal dependent [2]. However, in excess, heavy metals are toxic to cells through the binding and inactivation of DNA, lipids, and proteins via the generation of free radicals and reactive oxygen species. Members of the P1B-ATPases are critical components to the maintenance of metal homeostasis and catalyze the transport of metal ions such as copper, zinc, silver, lead, cadmium, and cobalt out of the cytosol. P1B-ATPases are characterized by 6 (TM1-6) to 8 (TMA, TMB, TM1-6) transmembrane segments (TMs) flanking the large cytoplasmic loop that contains the ATP binding and phosphorylation sites, and the presence of metal binding signature sequences in TM4, TM5 and TM6 which determine ion selectivity. P1B-ATPases also possess a diverse array of regulatory cytoplasmic N-terminal and C-terminal metal binding domains that control the enzyme turnover rate, but do not affect metal ion binding to the transmembrane transport sites. Seven P1B-ATPase subgroups have been identified and the metal selectivity identified for the first four; P1B-1: Cu+/Ag+; P1B-2: Zn2+/Pb2+/Cd2+, P1B-3: Cu2+; P1B-4: Co2+, with substrate specificity as yet to be definitively defined for P1B-5, P1B-6, and P1B-7 [3, 4, 152]. Members of these subgroups are characterized by conserved amino acid signature motifs in the transmembrane segments that establish their ion selectivity, and in the number of their transmembrane segments. The P1B-1-ATPases (3.A.3.5) are the most widely represented, present in archaea, prokaryotes and eukaryotes. The P1B-2, P1B-3, and P1B-4 subgroups (3.A.3.6) which transport divalent metal ions are restricted to archaea, prokaryotes and plants where they are responsible for metal biotolerance and also function in the hyper-accumulation of divalent metals in some plant species.

A single P1B-ATPase is present in each of the Leishmania and Trypanosoma species described in this report. Those in the Leishmania species are 175–292 amino acids longer than their Trypanosoma counterparts. This size differential is primarily related to longer amino terminal sequences proximal to the first transmembrane segment present in the Leishmania P1B-ATPases. However, excluding the cytoplasmic amino and carboxyl terminal portions of the enzymes the Leishmania and Trypanosoma P1B-ATPases are highly homologous, sharing 72–83% identity in this region. The trypanosomatid proteins each exhibit a structural organization characteristic of the Cu+ transporting P1B-1 subgroup of P1B-ATPases; a long N-terminal domain, eight predicted transmembrane domains (TMA, TMB, TM1-6) with the large cytoplasmic loop located between TM4 and TM5, and a relatively short C-terminal domain. The trypanosomatid P1B-ATPases also contain the transmembrane signature motifs present in the Cu+ transporting P1B-1 subgroup; CPCALGLATP in TM4, NX6YNX4P in TM5, and PX6MX2SSX5N in TM6 [3] Transmembrane signature motifs characteristic of P1B-ATPase subgroups with other metal ion specificities were absent in the trypanosomatid proteins. P1B-1-ATPases also have an N-terminal consensus regulatory metal binding domain, GMXCXXC, which is present in 2–3 copies in the Leishmania species and as a single copy in the Trypanosoma species. The trypanosomatid P1B-1-ATPases do not possess the Cys or His-rich or (HX)n regulatory metal binding domains associated with other P1B-ATPase subgroups but the eight Leishmania species each do have an N-terminal CC dipeptide motif that has been associated with metal binding in other subgroups. A phylogenetic comparison with 52 additional P1B-ATPases from organisms ranging from archaea and prokaryotes thru vertebrates shows that the trypanosomatid ATPases segregate with the P1B-1 Cu+ pumps from fungi, plants, vertebrates and invertebrates, and are most closely related to the yeast (Saccharomyces, Trametes, and Cryptococcus) and plant (Sorghum) representatives (data not shown).

In archaea and prokaryotes, P1B-ATPases function primarily as efflux pumps, conferring resistance to high levels of heavy metals in the environment. Non-photosynthetic eukaryotes appear to lack P1B-ATPases specific for divalent metal ions but their P1B-1-ATPases have a dual function; they can localize to the plasma membrane and function in copper efflux, conferring metal resistance, or be localized to organellar membranes and supply copper to intracellular compartments to meet metabolic requirements. The Saccharomyces copper transporting P1B-1-ATPase, CCC2, is located in the membrane of the post-Golgi network where it transfers copper from the copper chaperone Atx1p into the lumen of the Golgi network for insertion into secreted copper-dependent enzymes [62, 184]. In humans, two P1B-1-ATPases, ATP7A and ATP7B, localize to the trans-Golgi network and undergo copper-dependent trafficking, but can also be relocated to the plasma membrane or to vesicles proximal to the plasma membrane in various tissues [92]. Defects in ATP7A and ATP7B have been linked to Menke’s syndrome, a copper deficiency disorder resulting from reduced transport of dietary copper, and Wilson’s disease, a disorder characterized by progressive intracellular copper accumulation.

In the absence of biochemical characterization and subcellular localization data, the precise role of the trypanosomatid P1B-1-ATPases in their life cycle remains speculative. However, a role similar to CCC2 or ATP7A/B in the transport of copper into the trans-Golgi network or other intracellular organelles for incorporation into metalloproteins seems likely. For instance, a Cu/Zn-type superoxide dismutase is present in Leishmania glycosomes [39]. In addition, while the tightly regulated nature of copper metabolism in the human and insect hosts of trypanosomatids would seem to minimize the need for active copper efflux in the plasma membrane, the ability of Leishmania species and T. cruzi to survive within phagolysosomal vacuoles of macrophages highlight the need for the trypanosomatid P1B-1-ATPases to participate in active copper efflux. Macrophages introduce Cu+ ions into the lumen of phagolysosomal vacuoles, via the ATP7A copper pump, as part of the toxic antimicrobial milieu present in this compartment [53, 65, 174]. This copper can catalyze the production of reactive hydroxyl radicals capable of damaging microbial lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. Copper, via adventitious binding to amino acids, can also damage microbes by excluding native metal cofactors from their ligands, particularly in iron-sulfur cluster proteins. Resistance to copper via P1B-1-ATPases is required for virulence and survival from macrophage-mediated bacterial clearance in Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas, pneumococcus, and Salmonella infections [74, 78, 147, 174]. Transcripts of the Trypanosoma cruzi P1B-1-ATPases are upregulated over three-fold in the intracellular amastigote stage present in host cells versus the extracellular epimastigote in the insect vector, emphasizing its importance in an intracellular environment for T. cruzi [103]. However, in Trypanosoma brucei, which lacks an intracellular stage in the human host, there is little difference in P1B-1-ATPase transcript and protein levels between insect and human stages [75]. Although there is little difference in transcript levels between intracellular amastigote forms and insect promastigote stages for L. mexicana and L. major, the presence of multiple regulatory copper-binding domains in the amino terminal segments of the Leishmania P1B-1-ATPases may provide an alternative mechanism for increasing efflux activity under the high copper conditions encountered within macrophage phagolysosomes [52, 79].

P2A-ATPases (3.A.3.2)

The maintenance of intracellular calcium homeostasis is critical to living cells. Calcium is an integral component in signaling pathways that control many aspects of cellular function, including transcription, motility, cell division, apoptosis, metabolism, and signal transduction. Free calcium level within cells is maintained at micro-molar concentrations more than three orders of magnitude lower than intracellular calcium storage sources or the extracellular environment. Vertebrate cells utilize two sources of calcium for signaling, the sarcoplasmic reticulum and the extracellular space but intracellular parasites such as Leishmania and T. cruzi must contend with the low free calcium content of host cells. As a consequence, the trypanosomatid parasites have an additional calcium storage compartment, an acidic, calcium and phosphorous rich organelle known as an acidocalcisome [41]. Two classes of P-type Ca2+-ATPases participate in regulation of intracellular calcium levels; the P2A-ATPases, also known as the sarcoplasmic-endoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPases (SERCA), and P2B-ATPases known as plasma membrane calcium ATPases (PMCA), though PMCA pumps can also be found in intracellular organelles such as Golgi vesicles, vacuoles, and acidocalcisomes. SERCA pumps are found within intracellular organelles, notably the sarcoplasmic and endoplasmic reticulum, where they mediate Ca2+ sequestration, maintaining low intracellular Ca2+, and providing a recruitable Ca2+ store for intracellular signaling. The P2A-ATPases in most organisms have a high affinity for calcium and are inhibited by sub-micromolar concentrations of the sesquiterpene lactone thapsigargin. In trypanosomatids, calcium similarly functions as a second messenger to control intracellular signaling but also mediates several events unique to these organisms [42, 129]. Trypanosoma brucei maintains a low intracellular concentration of free Ca2+ and increases in calcium concentration are implicated in release of variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) from the plasma membrane [20, 141]. The periodic and synchronized release of VSGs is critical to evasion of antibody-mediated immune responses during infection. Host cell invasion by T. cruzi trypomastigotes and L. amazonensis is also dependent on increased cytosolic calcium levels [87, 107, 182].

The trypanosomatid parasites have multiple Ca2+-ATPases, including a single representative of the P2A-SERCA pumps and 2–4 members of the P2B-PMCA pumps. The SERCA pumps in the three trypanosomatid genomes initially sequenced (LM2, TB2, TC2s; Table 1) share 65–76% identity and 76–85% homology in pairwise comparison. The additional seven Leishmania genomes sequenced each include a single copy SERCA gene (Table 3) and their relatedness with LM2 ranges from 86–97% identity and 91–98% homology. Similarly, the genomes of additional Trypanosoma species (Table 4) also include a single P2A-ATPase and comparisons of these sequences shows 76–99% identity and 85–99% homology. SERCA pumps with a high degree of identity (87–99%, Table 2) to TC2s, TB2, and LM2 have been characterized in T. cruzi, T. brucei, L. donovani, and L. mexicana amazonensis. The T. brucei SERCA, TBA1 (Table 2), has high affinity for calcium, is sensitive to nano-molar concentrations of thapsigargin, is expressed in intracellular microsomal fractions but not in plasma membrane fractions, and significantly increases microsomal calcium activity when over-expressed but plasma membrane Ca2+-ATPase activity is unchanged [114, 133]. As expected for SERCA function, as a housekeeping protein, TBA1 is constitutively expressed in both procyclic and bloodstream trypomastigotes. The T. cruzi SERCA, TcSCA, contains sequence motifs unique to SERCA pumps, localizes to the endoplasmic reticulum in amastigotes, epimastigotes, and trypomastigotes, and is constitutively expressed in all three developmental forms. TcSCA expression in yeast rescues mutants deficient in the Golgi and vacuolar Ca2+-ATPase, PMC1, and TcSCA restores growth of PMC1 mutants on Mn2+ containing media, suggesting a role in Mn2+ uptake [55]. The L. mexicana amazonensis SERCA pump, Lmaa1, is located in the endoplasmic reticulum of both amastigotes and promastigotes, its expression is upregulated 2–4 fold in amastigote stages, and overexpression of Lmaa1 increases infectivity both in vitro and in vivo [87, 137]. In contrast to TBA1, the SERCA pumps from T. cruzi and L. amazonensis are reported to be relatively insensitive to thapsigargin; their sequences exhibit poor homology to the amino acids in transmembrane region 3 implicated in thapsigargin binding. Trypanosoma cruzi membrane ATPase activity in the presence of calcium was inhibited 24.9 ± 1.5% by the addition of 1 μM artemisinin to the assay and by 25.8 ± 3.9% by 1 μM thapsigargin [104]. Although the T. cruzi SERCA pump is thapsigargin insensitive when expressed in yeast, there are three additional calcium ATPases present in the T. cruzi genome and thapsigargin-sensitive calcium stores have been documented in T. cruzi [30, 40, 55]. The presence of thapsigargin sensitive calcium stores in other trypanosomes has also been reported [102].

P2B-ATPases (3.A.3.2)

Plasma membrane Ca2+-ATPases (PMCA) are high affinity calcium pumps that participate in the maintenance of low intracellular Ca2+ levels characteristic of eukaryotic cells by exporting Ca2+ from the cytosol to the extracellular environment. Vertebrates possess multiple PMCA genes and each transcript can be alternatively spliced to produce multiple variants that are developmentally regulated in a tissue- and cell-specific manner [180]. In more primitive eukaryotes (fungi, protozoa), members of the PMCA family also localize to intracellular organelles such as Golgi and vacuolar membranes. PMCAs of animals and plants are autoinhibitory proteins that are activated by calmodulin binding to a cytoplasmic C-terminal domain in animals and an N-terminal domain in plants [19, 142]. No consensus calmodulin-binding domain (CaMBD) exists but CaMBDs are typically 15–30 amino acids that have a net positive charge, possess moderate hydrophilicity and hydrophobic anchor residues, and have a propensity to form amphipathic α-helices [110].

Phylogenetic analysis identifies three distinct groups of PMCAs in trypanosomatids, with each group located on a different chromosome; (i) LM3-4, TB3-4-4b, Tc3s/3p, (ii) LM5, TB5, Tc5p, and (iii) LM6, each group presumably with different physiological roles. The first group exists as tandemly linked copies in Leishmania, two copies on chromosome 7, although only partial sequences or gene fragments are noted for some Leishmania species at this locus, and in T. brucei, three copies on chromosome 8 (Tables 3 and 4). Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and T. cruzi only have a single Ca2+-ATPase representative in this first group. The second group has only a single gene in each of the trypanosomatid parasites, and the third group is only present in Leishmania. PMCA pumps with a high degree of identity (90–100%, Table 2) to TB3, TB4, TB4b, and TC3s/3p have been characterized in Trypanosoma brucei and T. cruzi. Trypanosoma brucei TbPMC1 (TB4) and TbPMC2 (TB3) can complement yeast mutants whose vacuolar calcium ATPase and Ca2+/H+ antiporter are deleted, and suppress their calcium hypersensitivity [90]. TbPMC1 localizes to acidocalcisomes where it is responsible for calcium sequestration in this organelle and TbPMC2 localizes to the plasma membrane. Both proteins are upregulated in bloodstream trypomastigotes but plasma membrane calcium ATPase activity is equivalent in both forms [90, 114]. A partial sequence (TBCA2) homologous to TB4b has been reported but not characterized [154]. Trypanosoma cruzi Tca1 (TC3s/3p, Table 2) co-localizes with the vacuolar H+-ATPase to the plasma membrane and to intracellular vacuoles whose properties are consistent with acidocalcisomes. Northern analysis shows that Tca1 is >6-fold more abundant in amastigotes and >3-fold more abundant in trypomastigotes than in epimastigotes [88]. Although calmodulin-binding domains could not be identified in Tca1 (TC3s/3p) or TbPMC2 (TB3), calmodulin stimulation of plasma membrane Ca2+-ATPase activity has been demonstrated in T. cruzi, T. brucei, and L. mexicana [1214]. In Leishmania, a high-affinity plasma membrane Ca2+-ATPase activity, responsible for calcium extrusion from L. donovani promastigotes, has been reported but not functionally characterized [96]. No genes of the second (LM5, TB5, Tc5p) or third groups (LM6) of trypanosomatid PMCA pumps have been characterized to date.

P2D-ATPases (3.A.3.9)

The physiologic dependence of living cells on K+ ion participation in many metabolic activities, as well as the toxic effects of a high intracellular Na+ content, requires active transport mechanisms to regulate K+ and Na+ ion levels and maintain high K+ and low Na+ within cells. In lower eukaryotes, fungi, and bryophytes, a combination of inward K+ ion channels, K+ uptake proteins, and P-type ATPase efflux and import pumps capable of transporting either Na+ or K+ has evolved to serve this function [138]. These ATPases, classified as type P2D-ATPases, function to confer tolerance to high concentrations of Na+ and K+ in the environment by exchanging Na+ (or K+) for H+. This efflux can be either across the plasma membrane or into intracellular organelles to sequester sodium. In fungi and lower eukaryotes, this will also necessitate efflux of the imported H+ ions via a proton pump (see P3A-ATPases). In invertebrates and vertebrates Na+ and K+ homeostasis is regulated by a counter-transporting P-type Na+/K+-ATPase which couples the export of three Na+ ions with the import of two K+ ions. The Na+/K+-ATPase thus requires the presence of both Na+ and K+ for activity [109]. The Na+/K+-ATPase, classified as a type P2C-ATPase, is inhibited by ouabain and insensitive to furosemide, whereas the yeast P2D Na+ pumps are typically insensitive to ouabain and sensitive to furosemide. In animal cells, the electrogenic nature of Na+/K+-ATPase activity also produces a large transmembrane electrochemical gradient of sodium ions that is harnessed to drive the secondary transport of nutrients and other substrates [109].

During their life cycle, the trypanosomatid parasites are exposed to differing challenges in regulating Na+ and K+ ion homeostasis. In the human host, high serum Na+ (135–150 mM) and low serum K+ concentrations (3.6–5.6 mM) are encountered during growth in blood and low Na+ (5–15 mM) and high K+ (140–155 mM) concentrations are present in the intracellular environments seen by T. cruzi and Leishmania amastigotes. While information on the ionic environment in tsetse flies and sandflies, vectors for T. brucei and Leishmania, is lacking, it is reasonable to expect that Na+ and K+ concentrations in their insect hosts during the digestion of the parasite acquired blood meal will be similar to those seen in human serum, as has been shown in the gut of reduviid bug vectors of T. cruzi after feeding [76]. However, the identity of the protein(s) responsible for the active transport of Na+ and K+ ions in the trypanosomatids during the life cycle has been controversial; both P2C-ATPases with properties similar to vertebrate Na+/K+-ATPases and P2D ATPases similar to fungal and plant Na+ ATPases have been reported [25, 26, 35, 36, 49, 66, 95, 154, 165]. The difficulty in distinguishing these two types of pumps has been a reliance on using sensitivity to ouabain, a widely used Na+/K+-ATPase inhibitor, as distinguishing criteria, resulting in the discrepancies in interpretation between different investigators. Ouabain does not have absolute specificity for the Na+/K+-ATPase and can inhibit additional cellular functions as well as other P-type ATPases, albeit to a lesser extent and at higher concentrations. Cystamine transport is inhibited by 60% in Saccharomyces by 200 μM ouabain although S. cerevisiae lacks an Na+/K+-ATPase [131]. Ouabain in micromolar concentrations also significantly inhibits the human non-gastric H+/K+-ATPase [157]. Ecto-ATPase activity in Streptococcus sanguis and divalent cation stimulated ATPase activity in Staphylococcus aureus are also slightly inhibited by micromolar concentrations of ouabain [77, 93]. Therefore, genetic analysis of the trypanosomatid P-type ATPase sequences and characterization of their biochemical properties are more reliable criteria for classifying these pumps.

A single sodium pump is present in each of the trypanosomatid genomes (LM7, TB7, TC7) and these are highly homologous: pairwise alignments of the T. brucei, T. cruzi and Leishmania protein sequences show 65–73% identity and 77–82% homology within the region between the first and last trans-membrane segments, excluding amino and carboxyl terminal amino acids. Homologues for each of these genes have also been cloned and partially characterized (Table 2). Examination of their amino acid sequences clearly indicates that the trypanosomatid sodium pumps are related to the P2D-ATPase fungal sodium efflux pumps and not the Na+/K+-ATPases present in animal cells, the P2C-ATPases. A phylogenetic analysis has previously identified these trypanosomatid ATPases as members of the P2D-ATPases and an updated analysis performed for this work confirms this report [154]. Although the trypanosomatid genome sequence annotation in the TriTrypDB database identifies these as putative calcium motive ATPases, they clearly segregate with the P2D-ATPases in the current analysis. The trypanosomatid ATPases are most closely related to the fungal Na+ and K+ efflux pumps and not to the fungal high affinity K+ or Na+ uptake proteins recently described [16]. None of the amino acids which confer ouabain specificity to Na+/K+-ATPases are conserved in the trypanosomatid P2D sodium pumps, a finding which questions the specificity of ouabain inhibition of ATPase activity in the trypanosomatid parasites [126]. A DSYGQ motif located in the TM7–TM8 extracellular loop of Na+/K+- and H+/K+-ATPases, which is essential for their interaction with the accessory β-subunit, ion translocation and ATP hydrolysis, also cannot be found in the trypanosomatid sodium pumps [11, 29]. In addition, no homologues of this accessory β-subunit, required for P2C Na+/K+-ATPase activity, have been identified in the trypanosomatid genomes. The amino acids responsible for Na+ and K+ binding within the transmembrane segments (TM4, TM5, TM6, TM8, and TM9) that form the cation pore of Na+/K+-ATPases are conserved in each of the trypanosomatid sodium pumps [116]. However, these residues are conserved in fungal P2D-ATPases as well, and simply reflect a common evolutionary origin of the ability of P2C- and P2D-ATPases to transport Na+ and K+. There is strong similarity in the trypanosomatid P2D-ATPase sequences (matching at 6–9 amino acids) to a conserved motif, MIEALHRRKK, located in ATPase conserved region g, that is present in fungal P2D-ATPase ENA pumps but absent in Na+/K+ P2C-ATPases [138]. Two residues shown to be essential for full activity in the Zygosaccharomyces rouxii ENA1 ATPase, D852 in TM7 and E981 in TM10, are also conserved in the trypanosomatid P2D-ATPases, but are not present in Ca2+-, Na+/K+-, or H+-ATPases [172].

Biochemical properties of the trypanosomatid Na+- and K+-ATPase activities are also most consistent with a classification as P2D-ATPases. In yeast, the primary function of their P2D-ATPases is sodium or potassium efflux in conditions of high concentrations of these ions. A similar role is likely for the trypanosomatid sodium pumps. ATPase activity in Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigote membranes is stimulated by addition of Na+ ions and does not require the presence K+ for activity, as do Na+/K+-ATPases, and this stimulation is ouabain-insensitive and furosemide-sensitive [26]. The characterization of a TC7p/TC7s homologue in the T. cruzi Tulahuen strain, TcENA (Table 2), provides biochemical validation that the trypanosomatid P2D-ATPases function as Na+ or K+ efflux pumps similar to plant and fungal sodium pumps [66]. The ATPase activity of TcENA expressed in mammalian cells was stimulated by either Na+ or K+ and is insensitive to ouabain. Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigotes over-expressing TcENA also showed increased tolerance to Na+ stress. TcENA is localized to the plasma membrane and is expressed in all parasite stages, although transcript levels were lowest in the intracellular amastigote stages which are exposed to the lowest sodium concentrations encountered in the life cycle. A partial gene sequence for TB7 has been reported (TBCA1) and it also localizes to the plasma membrane and is upregulated in trypomastigote stages [154]. Leishmania amazonensis ATPase activity in promastigote plasma membranes is also stimulated by Na+ ions, does not require the presence K+ for activity, and is ouabain-insensitive and furosemide-sensitive [36]. Heme, a hemoglobin degradation product prominent in insect guts during blood meal digestion, where high Na+ would also be encountered, modulates this (Na+ + K+) ATPase by increasing intracellular H2O2 production which activates a protein kinase C signaling pathway to increase (Na+ + K+) ATPase activity [35, 37, 135]. In addition to its role in Na+ efflux through the plasma membrane the trypanosomatid P2D-ATPases may also function in cyclic AMP-protein kinase A (PKA) signaling and other intracellular signaling pathways. The PKA regulatory subunit immunoprecipitates with multiple P-type ATPases (TcENA, Tc7s, Tc16p) in trypomastigote membranes and P-type ATPases may play a role in anchoring PKA to the plasma membrane [10]. In humans, the Na+/K+-ATPases also serve as an anchor for a signalosome, containing specific binding motifs for proteins such as caveolin, phosphoinositide 3′ kinase, ankyrin, and AP2 adaptor complex. When bound to ouabain, the Na+/K+-ATPases signalosome can activate Src family tyrosine kinases and transduce signals via multiple pathways independent of its pumping function [83, 181]. A consensus caveolin binding motif, FxxxxFxxF, is present in the amino terminus proximal to TM1 in the trypanosomatid Na+ pumps.

P3A-ATPases (3.A.3.3)

Plasma membrane H+-ATPases are found in plants, fungi, protozoa and archaebacteria. They are a major determinate in the maintenance of cytosolic pH and by pumping H+ ions out of the cell they generate and maintain an electrochemical H+ gradient across the plasma membrane (PMF, proton motive force), which is used to energize secondary transport of solutes [108]. In animal cells, this electrochemical gradient is based on Na+ ions and is controlled by P2C Na+/K+-ATPases. P3A-ATPases are characterized by the presence of an auto-inhibitory domain which regulates protein activity. In fungi, this domain is located in the C-terminal cytoplasmic portion of the protein and interacts intra-molecularly to lock the pump in a low activity state. In plants, both the C-terminal and N-terminal domains are involved in controlling H+-ATPase activity [44]. Binding of 14–3–3 proteins to plant H+-ATPases or glucose to fungal H+-ATPases neutralizes this interaction and moves the pump to a high activity state. This regulation is principally dependent on the phosphorylation of serine and threonine residues in the C-terminal auto-inhibitory domain of both fungi and plants [63, 118]. Tandem phosphorylation of an adjacent Serine-Threonine amino acid pair in the C-terminal tail of the yeast Pma1 H+-ATPase mediates glucose-dependent activation of Pma1 [80].

Multiple P3A-ATPases are present in the trypanosomatid species. Leishmania has H+-ATPase genes in two chromosomal locations; a multi-copy gene locus on chromosome 18 and a single copy H+-ATPase gene on chromosome 4 (Tables 1 and 3). The genome sequences of L. major and L. infantum each contain three proton pumps; a tandemly linked pair on chromosome 18 and the separate, single copy gene on chromosome 4. There are only one (L. tropica, L. panamensis, L. braziliensis) or two (L. donovani, L. aethiopica, L. mexicana) complete H+-ATPases gene sequences found in the genomes of the other Leishmania species (Table 3). However, there are partial gene sequences or pseudogenes in the analogous genomic locations for each of the H+-ATPases missing from the L. major and L. infantum complement, indicating that at one time, three P3A-ATPase genes were likely present in each Leishmania species. The reasons for this loss of H+-ATPases in the genome sequences of some Leishmania species is not clear, but perhaps multiple copies of these genes are only necessary in vivo and that prolonged in vitro cultivation has led to their loss. A tandemly linked pair of H+-ATPases has been demonstrated in isolates different from those characterized in the genome databases for L. braziliensis, L. donovani, L. mexicana, and L. tropica [100]. The two L. donovani Ethiopian L82 strain H+-ATPases (Table 2) have been cloned and sequenced [98, 99].

Trypanosoma brucei brucei strains TREU927 and Lister 427 each also contain a tandemly linked pair of proton pumps on chromosome 10, but only a single H+-ATPase is found at this locus in the Trypanosoma brucei gambiense genome (Table 4). Three H+-ATPases have been identified at this locus on chromosome 10 in a strain Lister 427 29–13 cell line as well (Table 2) [91]. The separate, single copy H+-ATPase locus on a different chromosome as seen for Leishmania species is absent in the T. brucei brucei strains and in Trypanosoma brucei gambiense. The T. cruzi strain CL Brener genome only contains partial H+-ATPase sequences for two genes on chromosome 40 and a complete H+-ATPase gene on chromosome 8 (Tables 1 and 4). However, two linked H+-ATPase genes have been cloned and characterized from T. cruzi strain Y (Table 2) and four tandemly linked H+-ATPase genes have been reported for T. cruzi strain Sylvio-X10/7 [89, 101]. The identity of these trypanosomatid ATPase genes as H+-ATPases has been confirmed by functional complementation of the yeast proton pump by LDH1A and LDH1B from L. donovani, TcHA1 and TcHA2 from T. cruzi, and TbHA1, TbHA2, and TbHA3 from T. brucei [61, 89, 91].

The function of the trypanosomatid H+-ATPases is analogous to the roles identified for yeast and plant proton pumps. Maintenance of cytosolic pH and proton motive force driven transport of nutrients has been demonstrated for both amastigote and promastigote stages of L. donovani [5860, 85, 112, 186188]. The internal pH and membrane potential are comparable for the two Leishmania morphologic forms despite the differing pH environments they are exposed to; pH 4.5–5.0 for amastigotes within the phagolysosomal vacuoles of macrophages and pH 7.0–7.5 for promastigotes in the midgut of sandfly vectors and in culture. Amino acid uptake in L. major is also dependent on proton pump generated membrane potential and intracellular pH in L. mexicana amazonensis is regulated by plasma membrane H+-ATPase activity [97, 169]. Trypanosoma brucei proton pump activity regulates membrane potential (deltapsi) in both procyclic and bloodstream forms of the parasite as shown by plasma membrane depolarization by H+-ATPase inhibitors [166]. A T. brucei H+-ATPase also regulates intracellular pH in procyclic trypomastigotes and bloodstream trypomastigotes [164]. Three P-type H+-ATPases (TbHA1-3, Table 2), cloned and sequenced from T. brucei, localize to the plasma membrane of procyclic forms and the plasma membrane and flagellum of bloodstream forms, complement a yeast strain deficient in endogenous H+-ATPase activity, are upregulated in procyclic forms, and RNA interference of their expression resulted in growth inhibition. Knockdown of TbHA1 and TbHA3 lowered internal pH (pHi) and slowed recovery of pHi after acidification [91]. The regulation of cytoplasmic pH and plasma membrane potential in T. cruzi epimastigotes, trypomastigotes and amastigotes is similarly dependent on plasma membrane H+-ATPase activity and participation of a P-type H+-ATPase in the acidification of internal organelles has been shown [148, 162, 163, 165]. A tandemly linked pair of H+-ATPases, TcHA1 and TcHA2 (Table 2), has been characterized in T. cruzi [89]. The two proton pumps were expressed in all T. cruzi forms although TcHA1 is most abundant in epimastigotes and TcHA2 is expressed predominantly in trypomastigotes. TcHA1 and an N-terminal truncated TcHA2 complemented yeast deficient in H+-ATPase activity and were localized to the yeast plasma membrane. In all T. cruzi developmental forms, both TcHA1 and TcHA2 are located in intracellular compartments, principally reservosomes, and TcHA1 is additionally present in the plasma membrane [170].

The Leishmania, H+-ATPases are regulated at their C-terminus like their yeast counterparts. Leishmania donovani proton pumps LDH1A and LDH1B (Table 2) are differentially regulated; LDH1A is constitutively expressed while LDH1B is significantly upregulated in intracellular amastigote forms. The two proteins are highly homologous, differing at only 20 amino acids with 15 of those differences occurring in the COOH-terminal 37 amino acids [98, 99]. This carboxyl terminal tail region contains multiple potential serine and threonine phosphorylation sites including the proposed Leishmania-specific phosphorylation motifs FS and NxS [117]. Functional complementation of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain deficient in endogenous H+-ATPase activity, support of yeast growth at low pH, and ability to acidify media demonstrate that LDH1A and LDH1B encode proton pumps. LDH1A and LDH1B encode a COOH-terminal auto-inhibitory domain as COOH-truncated peptides support increased rates of growth in yeast, enhanced media acidification, increased enzyme activity Vmax and decreased Km. This regulatory domain mediates differing function properties; LDH1A, but not LDH1B, supports yeast growth at pH 3 and LDH1A shows a greater ability to acidify media. Deletion of the last eight amino acids from LDH1B permits growth at pH 3 and increases media acidification, swapping of the COOH-tails between LDH1A and LDH1B results in LDH1A (with LDH1B tail) unable to support yeast growth at pH 3 and LDH1B (with LDH1A tail) now able to support growth at pH 3. Replacement of the COOH-terminal eight amino acids of LDH1B with those from LDH1A also confers the ability to support growth at pH 3 [61]. Potential phosphorylation motifs are present in the COOH-terminal regions of other Leishmania H+-ATPases. Multiple Ser and Thr residues are present in all of the proton pumps for the additional Leishmania species described here, including a Ser-Thr pair in each, as well as NxS and FS motifs in most of the Leishmania species. The COOH-terminal tails of the Trypanosoma proton pumps also contain multiple Ser and Thr residues and NxS/FS motifs but no Ser-Thr pairs. However, the T. cruzi proton pump, TcHA1, is apparently not regulated via a COOH-terminal auto-inhibitory domain as COOH-terminal truncation of TcHA1 did not affect its ability to complement yeast deficient in H+-ATPase activity [89].

P4-ATPases (3.A.3.8)

The aminophospholipid translocases are a large and diverse group of P-type ATPases that appear to be ubiquitous in eukaryotes where the expression of multiple P4-ATPases is common. A unique feature of eukaryotes is the asymmetrical nature of their membranes and aminophospholipid translocases are responsible for maintaining the asymmetrical distribution of lipids in the plasma membrane, trans-Golgi network and endosomal system membranes by their ability to “flip” phospholipids such as phosphatidylserine (PS), phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), and phosphatidylcholine (PC) between bilayer leaflets to increase PS and PE exposure on the cytosolic leaflet and PC and sphingolipid exposure on the extracellular leaflet [34, 82, 134]. The P4-ATPases work in synergy with other ATP-dependent and ATP-independent protein families, such as ATP binding cassette (ABC) transporters and flippases respectively, to effect this non-random phospholipid distribution in eukaryotic membranes. This asymmetric lipid arrangement is critical to cellular function as it confers different biophysical properties and physiological roles to the two sides of the bilayer. P4-ATPases are also essential to membrane biogenesis by generating lipid asymmetry in the new membrane as it transverses from its origin in the endoplasmic reticulum through the Golgi network. In addition to their role in vesicular trafficking, P4-ATPases have also been implicated in cell signaling events, apoptosis, blood clotting, phagocytosis, cell polarity and growth, adhesion, migration, lysophospholipid transport, and apical barrier function [1, 120].

Different members of the P4-ATPases can differentiate phospholipids based on their head groups and lipid backbones. Yeast possesses five P4-ATPases; Drs2p transports PS with a weaker affinity for PE, Dnf1p, Dnf2p, and Dnf3p transport PC and PE, and the transport specificity of Neo1p appears to be PE with a weaker activity towards PS [120, 158]. Yeast P4-ATPases also exhibit specificity in their intracellular location; yeast Dnf1p and Dnf2p localize to the plasma membrane and early endosomes, Dnf3p and Drs2p are located in the trans-Golgi network, and Neo1p is present in the trans-Golgi network and late endosomes [120]. The P4-ATPases require at least three accessory (β subunit) molecules, which form heterodimeric complexes with the P4-ATPases in membranes and are required for their stability, proper intracellular targeting, and transport activity and specificity. In yeast, Cdc50p complexes with Drs2p and Neo1p, Lem3p/Ros3p complexes with Dnf1p and Dnf2p, and Crf1p binds Dnf3p. Five classes of P4-ATPase ATPases (14 total), analogous to those in yeast, with different substrate specificities, a similar diverse array of cellular membrane localizations, and accompanied by accessory chaperone proteins, (CDC50A, CDC50B, and CDC50C) are also present in humans [1].

A total of 14 P4-ATPases are present in the trypanosomatid genomes initially sequenced (Table 1); five in L. major and T. cruzi, and four in T. brucei. Alignment of their amino acid sequences identifies five groups; (i) LM11, TC11s/11p, and TB11; (ii) LM12 and TC12s; (iii) LM13, TB13 and TC13s; (iv) LM14, TB14, and TC14p; and (v) LM15, TB15, and TC15s/15p. The first two groups show higher homology to each other than to other groups, a finding also true for the last two groups. This result is confirmed by phylogenetic analysis with 42 additional P4-ATPases (not shown) wherein the trypanosomatid sequences from the first two groups (LM11-TB11-TC11s/11p and LM12-TB12) segregate on a separate branch of the phylogram, as do the last two groups (LM14-TB14-TC14p and LM15-TB15-TC15s/15p), while LM13, TB13 and TC13s segregate together on a branch that includes yeast Neo1p. Homologous proteins in each of these five P4-ATPase groups are present in all the other Leishmania and Trypanosoma species analyzed as well, with the exception of a homologue for LM12 and TC12 which is missing in all of the Trypanosoma brucei strains (Tables 3 and 4). In view of the close correlation in the P-type ATPase complements of the trypanosomatid parasites, the lack of a T. brucei homologue of LM12 and TC12s is somewhat perplexing. It may be hypothesized that this absence is due to the lack of an intracellular amastigote stage in the T. brucei life cycle. Perhaps LM12 and TC12s mediate membrane alterations necessary for entry into their resident cells or unique to survival in an intracellular environment. The close relationship between yeast neo1p and LM13, TB13, and TC13s also implies a similar cellular role and intracellular location, in endosomes, as for Neo1p, for this group of trypanosomatid P4-ATPases. The need for P4-ATPases in the plasma membrane and within the trans-Golgi network suggests that the other trypanosomatid P4-ATPases function there.

Except for the P4-ATPase group represented by LM15, physiological roles and membrane locations for the trypanosomatid P4-ATPases have not been elucidated. Although residues involved in determining phospholipid specificity have been identified in yeast, plant and human phospholipid translocators there is insufficient homology between these proteins and the trypanosomatid P4-ATPases to make any definitive conclusions as to their substrate specificities [56, 71, 140]. An L. donovani homologue of LM15, LdMT (93% identity, 96% similarity), localizes to the plasma membrane and mediates uptake of glycerophospholipids and the lysophospholipid analogue miltefosine (hexadecylphosphocholine), a highly effective oral anti-leishmanial drug [122, 123]. Resistance of L. donovani promastigotes and amastigotes to miltefosine is characterized by mutations to LdMT, which decrease internalization of miltefosine and other phospholipid analogues [123, 149]. Resistant parasites also exhibit changes in membrane lipid composition and alterations in fatty acid, lipid, and sterol metabolism [5, 127, 128, 150]. The efficacy of miltefosine against T. cruzi and to a lesser extent versus T. brucei, suggest a similar functional role for their LM15 homologues, TC15s/15p (54% identity, 69% similarity to LM15) and TB 15 (48% identity, 61% similarity to LM15) [31, 146].

The characterization of a functional homologue, LdRos, of the Lem3/CDC50 family in L. donovani (strain MHOM/ET/67/HU3) reveals a similar requirement for accessory β subunits in trypanosomatid P4-ATPase function [124]. LdRos is located in the plasma membrane with LdMT and its presence is necessary for proper LdMT trafficking to the membrane, LdMT translocation activity, and uptake of miltefosine (conferring resistance if absent or mutated). Three members of the Lem3/Ros family of P4-ATPase accessory molecules, homologous to those present in yeast and humans, are also present in each of the Leishmania and Trypanosoma genomes described in this report. The LdRos protein homologue in L. major genome is 93% identical to LdRos and homologous proteins in T. brucei and T. cruzi are 53% and 55% identical to LdRos.

P4-ATPases participate in entry and intracellular survival of Leishmania. Phagocytosis of Leishmania amastigotes and infective stationary phase promastigotes is enhanced by increased exposure of phosphatidylserine on the outer membrane [167]. The presence of increased PS is normally a signal of cellular apoptosis, inducing phagocytosis by polymorphonuclear neutrophils, granulocytes, and macrophages, and acting to suppress immune activation and inflammatory responses by these cells. Intracellular pathogens such as Leishmania exploit this process by mimicking the apoptotic programmed cell death phenotype to gain entry into target cells and evade immune responses [9, 171]. Although the protein that mediates this increased PS exposure in Leishmania has not been identified, the dependence of PS exposure on an ATP driven process in Leishmania has been demonstrated, an observation consistent with inhibition or reduction of membrane P4-ATPase PS translocating activity [161].

P5A-ATPases (3.A.3.10)

The P5-ATPases are the least well understood subfamily of the P-type ATPases, which is surprising as they appear to be ubiquitous among eukaryotes. P5-ATPases appear to be specific for eukaryotes as no P5-ATPases have been identified in bacterial or archaeal species to date. P5-ATPases group into two subfamilies, P5A and P5B, based on the composition of a characteristic signature sequence present in their fourth transmembrane domain, which corresponds to the PEGLP sequence of P2A-ATPases that participates in forming a Ca2+ binding site [160]. In P5A-ATPases this motif contains the sequence PP(D/E)LPxE and in P5B-ATPases the two negative charged residues have been replaced with hydrophobic residues, PP(A/V)LPAx, with x denoting a hydrophobic residue [105]. The loss of two negative residues in a critical transmembrane segment implicated in ion specificity will impact ion binding properties and suggests that P5A- and P5B-ATPases may differ in their ion specificities. The P5A-ATPases are present in all eukaryotic lineages but P5B-ATPases are not found in three eukaryotic lineages; excavates, which includes Leishmania and Trypanosoma, entamoebas, and land plants.

Multiple studies associate P5A-ATPases to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), early Golgi network, vacuoles, and secretory vesicles [33, 48, 69, 156, 168, 175]. Ion specificity has not been definitively ascribed for P5-ATPases and loss of function mutants in both yeast and plants exhibit pleiotropic effects with diverse phenotypes [153]. Available evidence implicates P5-ATPases in protein folding, maturation, degradation, and secretion through maintenance of ER homeostasis. The Saccharomyces Cod1 mutant is deficient in the regulation of hydroxymethylglutaryl-coenzyme A degradation, an integral ER protein, and disruption of this P5A-ATPase (also known as Spf1p) yields a glycosylation defective phenotype, perturbs cellular calcium homeostasis, and increases expression of Kar2p, an ER stress chaperone, and calcineurin-activated genes, indicating secretory calcium store depletion [32, 33, 155, 156]. Spf1p/Cod1p expression is regulated by the unfolded protein response and Spf1p/Cod1p mutants activate the unfolded protein response and are defective in the ER-associated degradation of mis-folded proteins and in glycoprotein processing [168]. Microsomes derived from Spf1p deleted yeast exhibit reduced levels of Mn2+ and microsomes from Spf1P overexpressing yeast have increased Mn2+ as compared to wild type [28]. Deletion mutants of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe P5A-ATPase, SPAC29A4.19c, are hypersensitive to elevated calcium in the absence of the vacuolar Ca2+-ATPase, Pmc1p, a condition that can be suppressed by overexpression of another Ca2+-ATPase, Pmr1p. Double deletion mutants of SPAC29A4.19c and Pmr1p are hypersensitive to Mn2+ depletion in the culture medium. Schizosaccharomyces SPAC29A4.19c deletion mutants are also hypersensitive to the antiarrhythmic drug amiodarone, which disrupts Ca2+ homeostasis [54]. Mutants of the P5A-ATPase of Arabidopsis thaliana, MIA, exhibit abnormal morphology, altered cell wall structure, imbalances in cation homeostasis, and changes in the expression of secretory proteins [69].

Mutations in ATP13A2, a human neuronal P5B-ATPase, are linked to the lysosomal storage disorder neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis and neurodegenerative diseases such as Kufor-Rakeb syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, and hereditary spastic paraplegia, and are characterized by lysosomal and mitochondrial dysfunction [21, 38, 47, 130]. In Dictyostelium amoeba, phagocytic bacterial predators found in soil, deletion of kil2, a P5B-ATPase present in phagolysosomal membranes, prevents killing and growth on Klebsiella bacteria and this defect is rescued by addition of Mg2+ ions, suggesting that kil2 is a magnesium pump [81]. However, the dependence of polyamine uptake in Caenorhabditis elegans on the presence of the P5B-ATPase plasma membrane transporter, CATP-5, demonstrates the existence of an additional potential function for the P5B-ATPases [64].

The perturbations in Ca2+, Mg2+, and Mn2+ homeostasis seen in many studies has led to speculation that P5-ATPases transport one or more of these ions. An alternative hypothesis is that the P5-ATPases function to move lipids or organic molecules across membranes to assist in the generation of membrane vesicles, participate in lipid recycling and/or lipid distribution in membranes, or to move glycolipid precursors, needed for synthesis of N-linked oligosaccharides or GPI-anchors, from the cytosol to the lumen of the ER [143145]. Supporting this hypothesis is the observation that the P5-ATPases are most closely related to the P4-aminophospholipid translocating ATPases among the P-type ATPases [8]. Unfortunately, definitive evidence to distinguish between these potential substrates for P5A- or P5B-ATPases is lacking at this time.

P5-ATPase genes are present in the all of the Trypanosomatidae examined (Tables 1, 3, 4). Their predicted proteins are of similar size (1244–1261 aa) and highly homologous, sharing 70–81% identity and 80–88% similarity in sequence alignments comparing the Leishmania and Trypanosoma species. Transcripts of the trypanosomatid P5-ATPases do not vary significantly between different life cycle stages, and currently there is no information available on their location or function in the trypanosomatids. The trypanosomatid P5-ATPases each contain the PPELPME signature sequence present in the fourth transmembrane segment that is characteristic of all P5A-ATPases [105]. A phylogenetic analysis (not shown) of the P5-ATPases from the trypanosomatid parasites and 32 additional P5-ATPases, 16 P5A-ATPases and 16 P5A-ATPases, from protozoa, fungi, plants, invertebrates and vertebrates indicates that the trypanosomatid P5-ATPases segregate with the P5A-ATPases which include MIA, SPAC29A4.19c, and Spf1p/Cod1p. It is reasonable to propose functions for trypanosomatid P5-ATPases similar to those described for MIA, SPAC29A4.19c, and Spf1p in the endoplasmic reticulum and/or Golgi network necessary for protein maturation, secretion, and degradation.

P-type ATPases as drug targets

Chemotherapeutic interventions for Leishmania and Trypanosoma pathogens are often inadequate due to factors that include the toxic side effects for many of the currently utilized drugs, the cost of recommended treatment regimens, the requirement for long treatment courses, the need for parenteral administration, high therapeutic failure rates, and rising drug resistance in these parasites. The P-type ATPases of Leishmania and the trypanosomes represent an ideal class of proteins to exploit in the development of new drugs that can circumvent these limitations. The P-type ATPases described in this report are essential proteins in cellular metabolism, are for the most part constitutively expressed in the different developmental stages of these pathogens, and as surface membrane proteins possess readily accessible extracellular domains. Additionally the H+- and Na+-ATPases described here differ significantly from their mammalian homologues, the H+/K+- and Na+/K+-ATPases. The feasibility of targeting ion pumps is evident from the clinical use of proton pump inhibitors (omeprazole, lansoprazole, etc.) to inhibit the human gastric H+/K+-ATPase and decrease stomach acidity, cardiotonic steroids (ouabain, digoxin, etc.) for the treatment of congestive heart failure and heart arrhythmia by specific inhibition of the heart Na+/K+-ATPase, artemisinin compounds for the treatment of malaria via inhibition of the parasite sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase (SERCA), and clotrimazole, another SERCA inhibitor, as an anti-mycotic agent [183]. The antiarrhythmic, amiodarone, as well as miltefosine and posaconazole have been shown to exert anti-leishmanial and anti-trypanosomal activity through disruption of calcium homeostasis [15]. There are multiple examples of the efficacy of P-type ATPase inhibitors on Leishmania and Trypanosoma parasites; artemisinins have anti-trypanosomal activity, omeprazole inhibits L. donovani, thapsigargin inhibits the SERCA pump of T. brucei, the Na+-ATPase of L. amazonensis is sensitive to the diuretic furosemide (Lasix), pentamidine inhibits the plasma membrane Ca2+-ATPase of T. brucei, the aminophospholipid translocator, LdMT, in L. donovani is required for miltefosine transport and miltefosine inhibits the Na+-ATPase of T. cruzi [6, 13, 73, 104, 114, 125, 146]. Moving forward, the exploitation of P-type ATPase inhibitors as new therapeutic options in treating Leishmania and trypanosome infections should be a priority.

Conclusion

The identification of the genes responsible for ATP-dependent ion movements should facilitate future studies of their structure and function. Importantly, the exploitation of P-type ATPase genes as drug targets should be advanced as their presence offers the possibility of exploiting differences in their ion pumps for the biologically based design of new therapeutic interventions for these infections.

Conflict of interest

The author declares that he has no conflict of interest.

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Cite this article as: Meade JC. 2019. P-type transport ATPases in Leishmania and Trypanosoma. Parasite 26, 69.

All Tables

Table 1

P-type transport ATPases in the originally sequenced genomes of the Trypanosomatidae, 2005.

Table 2

Prior characterization of P-type transport ATPases in the Trypanosomatidae.

Table 3

P-type transport ATPases in genomes of eight species of Leishmania.

Table 4

P-type transport ATPases in genomes of four species of Trypanosoma.

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