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A study of the sensitivity of Leishmania donovani promastigotes and amastigotes to hydrogen peroxide. I. Differences in sensitivity correlate with parasite-mediated removal of hydrogen peroxide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Jacqueline Y. Channon  and
Jenefer M. Blackwell
Jacqueline Y. Channon
Affiliation:
Department of Tropical Hygiene, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel St (Gower St), London WC1E 7HT
Jenefer M. Blackwell
Affiliation:
Department of Tropical Hygiene, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel St (Gower St), London WC1E 7HT
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The sensitivities of promastigotes and amastigotes of Leishmania donovani to reagent or glucose oxidase-generated hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) were examined in a phagocyte-free system and compared with direct measurements of loss of H2O2 due to reaction with the parasite. Using a combined fluorescence dye uptake/dye exclusion viability assay in conjunction with motility and transformation data it was shown that log-phase promastigotes harvested from recently transformed cultures were intermediate in their H2O2 sensitivity between amastigotes and log-phase promastigotes harvested from long-term subcultures. It was also observed that, while promastigotes are equally sensitive to either form of H2O2 stress, amastigotes are more resistant to single larger amounts of reagent H2O2 than to equivalent amounts of H2O2 generated over a 1 h period. In each case the respective LD50 values obtained for each form of the parasite under each type of H2O2 stress correlated with saturation of their ability to remove H2O2 from the phagocyte-free system. For both promastigotes and amastigotes there was always a time delay after removal of either form of H2O2 stress before H2O2-mediated damage to membranes became apparent. The results suggest that the differential responses of promastigotes and amastigotes to different forms of H2O2 stress may depend upon different H2O2 scavenging mechanisms examined in more detail in the accompanying paper.

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Parasitology , Volume 91 , Issue 2 , October 1985 , pp. 197 - 206
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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