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First published online 14 April 2008
doi: 10.1242/jcs.021089
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Departments of Biology, and Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 19104, USA
Author for correspondence (e-mail: droos{at}sas.upenn.edu)
Accepted 18 February 2008
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5000 species of obligate intracellular parasites, including those responsible for malaria and toxoplasmosis. Rather than dividing by binary fission, apicomplexans use a remarkable mechanism for replication, assembling daughters de novo within the cytoplasm. Here, we exploit time-lapse microscopy of fluorescent markers targeted to various subcellular structures in Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites to determine how these unicellular eukaryotes efficiently package a complete set of organelles, maintaining the highly polarized organization necessary for host cell invasion and pathogenesis. Golgi division and elongation of the apicoplast are among the first morphologically observable events, associated with an unusual pattern of centriolar migration. Daughter parasites are assembled on cytoskeletal scaffolding, whose growth proceeds from the apical end, first encapsulating the divided Golgi. Further extension of the cytoskeletal scaffold results in partitioning of the apicoplast, nucleus, endoplasmic reticulum, and finally the mitochondrion, which enters the developing daughters rapidly, but only very late during the division cycle. The specialized secretory organelles (micronemes and rhoptries) form de novo. This distinctive pattern of replication – in which organellar segregation spans 75% of the cell cycle, completely encompassing S phase – suggests an unusual mechanism of cell cycle regulation.
Key words: Apicomplexan parasites, Organelle segregation, Apicoplast, Mitochondrion, Endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi, Centrioles, Micronemes, Rhoptries
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) consisting of a plasma membrane and the inner membrane complex (IMC) – a patchwork of flattened membrane vesicles lying just beneath the plasma membrane and associated with the subpellicular cytoskeleton (Porchet and Torpier, 1977; Dubremetz and Torpier, 1978; Morrissette et al., 1997). An apical complex of specialized cytoskeletal structures and secretory organelles (micronemes and rhoptries) gives the phylum Apicomplexa its name. These secretory organelles, along with dense granules, are thought to be responsible for host-cell recognition, attachment, invasion and establishment/maintenance of the intracellular parasitophorous vacuole (PV), within which replicating parasites reside (Carruthers and Sibley, 1997; Dubremetz et al., 1998). Proteins secreted from rhoptries have recently been shown to play an important role in parasite virulence (Saeij et al., 2006; Taylor et al., 2006; Saeij et al., 2007). Apicomplexan cells also contain a complete set of typical eukaryotic organelles, in a stripped-down form that has facilitated morphological and mechanistic studies (Hager et al., 1999; Joiner and Roos, 2002; Pelletier et al., 2002). Each parasite contains a single interconnected endoplasmic reticulum (ER), one Golgi complex, one nucleus, one mitochondrion and even a plastid acquired by secondary endosymbiosis (Köhler et al., 1997; Roos et al., 1999; Foth and McFadden, 2003).
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; Hu et al., 2002). As daughter cells grow, they encapsulate virtually all of the maternal cell contents, eventually deriving their plasma membrane from that of the mother as they emerge, leaving behind only a small residual body (Sheffield and Melton, 1968). Thus, these parasites must possess a highly coordinated subcellular replication system to ensure that each daughter acquires a complete complement of organelles, maintaining the highly polarized organization required for host cell invasion. Morphological studies on fixed specimens (Ogino and Yoneda, 1966; Sheffield and Melton, 1968; Aikawa, 1971), including three-dimensional reconstructions from serial sections (Slomianny and Prensier, 1986; Bannister et al., 2000a), have helped to define the fine structure of individual organelles, but these approaches are unable to reveal the dynamic process of organellar replication and segregation during cell division.
Fluorescent markers greatly facilitate the study of organellar dynamics in living parasites (Striepen et al., 1998; Striepen et al., 2000; He et al., 2001; Hu et al., 2002; Pelletier et al., 2002; Dzierszinski et al., 2004; Vaishnava et al., 2005; van Dooren et al., 2005; Hartmann et al., 2006; Hu et al., 2006). For example, the parasite Golgi has been shown to elongate laterally before dividing and segregating between the two daughter cells (Pelletier et al., 2002). The apicoplast has been shown to replicate early during endodyogeny, in close synchrony with nuclear division (Striepen et al., 2000; Vaishnava et al., 2005; van Dooren et al., 2005). How do organelles replicate while maintaining highly polarized cell structures? In this study, we have constructed a diverse array of fluorescent markers fused to various organellar proteins or targeting signals. Combining these reporter constructs in various permutations and combinations highlights the dynamic movement and inheritance of organelles from mother to daughter cells during cytokinesis in living T. gondii tachyzoites. These studies reveal several unusual aspects of organellar replication, including: early centriolar migration, which appears likely to define the spindle axis; rapid, late entry of the mitochondrion into the developing daughter parasites; and a tightly synchronized process of organellar replication and division during daughter parasite assembly.
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; Hu et al., 2002) was used as a marker to precisely track the progress of cytokinesis, because this protein is a component of the subpellicular network that defines the periphery of both the mature parasite tachyzoite and the immature daughters developing with the mother cell.
Previous studies on T. gondii and related protists have suggested the following sequence of organellar segregation events during parasite replication: Golgi complex 
apicoplast nucleus (Sheffield and Melton, 1968; Striepen et al., 2000; Pelletier et al., 2002). This pattern was clearly supported by studies on clonal parasite lines stably expressing multiple fluorescent protein reporters or labeled with antibody (Fig. 2). During interphase, the Golgi (GRASP-mRFP; red in Fig. 2, left column), apicoplast [anti-acyl carrier protein (ACP); red in Fig. 2, middle and right columns] and centrioles [EGFP-T. gondii (Tg) centrin (Hartmann et al., 2006); green in Fig. 2, right column] were localized in close proximity, near the apical end of the nucleus (Fig. 2A-C). The Golgi underwent elongation (Fig. 2D) and fission (Fig. 2G) before the initiation of daughter scaffold formation [IMC1-YFP (Hu et al., 2002); green in Fig. 2 middle column] (Fig. 2J,K). Elongation of the apicoplast initiated early (Fig. 2E), coincident with centriole migration (Fig. 2F), but apicoplast segregation into daughter parasites (Fig. 2N) took place only after centriole duplication (Fig. 2I) and the initiation of scaffold formation (Fig. 2J,K). Identical results were obtained using various other Golgi and apicoplast reporters (not shown). Karyokinesis followed after fission of the apicoplast (Fig. 2N,O).
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; Joiner and Roos, 2002). Parasite-specific secretory organelles include dense granules (constitutive secretory vesicles), micronemes (regulated secretory organelles involved in host cell attachment and invasion) and rhoptries (regulated secretory organelles involved in establishment and maintenance of the intracellular parasitophorous vacuole) (Carruthers and Sibley, 1997; Joiner and Roos, 2002). Previous reports have suggested that these organelles may be synthesized de novo, within each daughter cell, during endodyogeny (Ogino and Yoneda, 1966; Sheffield and Melton, 1968; Bannister et al., 2000b). This process could be visualized by time-lapse microscopy of fluorescently labelled parasites, as illustrated in Fig. 4. At the onset of daughter formation (t=0'), maternal micronemes [left two columns, MIC3-GFP (Striepen et al., 1998), green] and rhoptries [right two columns, ROP1-CAT-YFP (Dzierszinski et al., 2004), green] were localized at the apical end of the mother (labeled with IMC1-mRFP, red). As the IMC extends, maternal micronemes and rhoptries remained (+40', open arrowheads), but new foci along daughter scaffolds also appeared within each daughter (+40', white arrowheads). The IMC forms a continuous barrier separating the maternal and daughter micronemes and rhoptries, necessitating de novo formation of daughter micronemes and rhoptries, presumably by vesicular budding from the Golgi. Microneme and rhoptry labeling became increasingly distinct as daughter parasites matured (+80-95', white arrowheads), whereas maternal micronemes and rhoptries (open arrowheads) disappeared, with residual material packaged into the residual bodies (+130-140').
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; Melo et al., 2000; Toursel et al., 2000), but the replication of this organelle has not previously been described. To label the T. gondii mitochondrion, the N-terminal 55 amino acids from mitochondrial matrix heat shock protein 60 (HSP60L) (Toursel et al., 2000) were fused to the fluorescent protein DsRed and engineered for stable expression in transgenic parasites. Time-lapse microscopy (Fig. 5A) showed that mitochondrial segregation in T. gondii is tightly coupled with the cell division cycle [unlike most other eukaryotic systems, where mitochondria replicate autonomously (Bereiter-Hahn and Voth, 1994; Shaw and Nunnari, 2002; Logan, 2006)]. At the onset of daughter IMC formation (t=0'), the mitochondrion formed branches at multiple locations along its length (arrowheads). These extensions continued to grow, ultimately surrounding the growing daughter IMC (Fig. 5A, +60'; corresponds approximately to the bottom row in Fig. 2). Surprisingly, the mitochondrion appeared to be completely excluded from the developing daughters, even very late during scaffold formation, when the daughter parasites began to emerge from the mother (as seen in at least three of the four parasites shown at Fig. 5A, +110'). Mitochondrial branches enter the developing daughters only at the last possible moment, migrating rapidly along the IMC/cytoskeletal scaffolding (Fig. 5A, +120'), and ultimately encircling the nucleus (Fig. 5A, +140' and supplementary material Movie 1). A small amount of vestigial mitochondrial material was often left behind in the residual body, along with other material not incorporated into the daughter parasites (Fig. 5A, +160'). In the related apicomplexan parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, the mitochondrion has been reported to physically associate with the apicoplast throughout the asexual cycle (Hopkins et al., 1999; van Dooren et al., 2005). Apicoplast-mitochondrial association was also observed in T. gondii at the time of apicoplast elongation (Fig. 5B,C), providing the potential for metabolic interaction, but this association was not maintained continuously throughout the cell cycle. Dividing apicoplasts enter daughter parasites early during IMC formation (see Fig. 2N, corresponding to +60' in Fig. 5A), well before mitochondrial entry (120' in Fig. 5A). The same sequence of events was observed in living cells by time-lapse microscopy using parasites stably expressing FNRL-DsRed and HSP60L-YFP, or ACPL-EGFP and HSP60L-DsRed, to label the apicoplast and mitochondrion, respectively (not shown).
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The migration and segregation of subcellular organelles is likely to require interaction with cytoskeletal elements. Actin appears not to be involved, because parasites grown for 24 hours in 1 µM cytochalasin D [in the cytochalasin-resistant human epithelial cell line Cyt-1 (Toyama and Toyama, 1984)] exhibited normal organellar partitioning (not shown). The dinitroaniline herbicide oryzalin specifically inhibits the formation of certain microtubule subsets in T. gondii, without affecting host cell microtubules (Stokkermans et al., 1996; Morrissette and Sibley, 2002). Although oryzalin completely blocks polymerization of subpellicular microtubules and the formation of daughter parasite scaffolds, DNA replication and centriole duplication proceeded normally, as did division of the Golgi complex (Fig. 6, row 1, right). The loss of subpellicular microtubules prevents daughter scaffold formation and karyokinesis, resulting in giant cells containing multiple centrioles and a multilobed polyploid nucleus (Striepen et al., 2000; Morrissette and Sibley, 2002), but paired Golgi were nevertheless evident, remaining in close association with the nucleus in the absence of developing daughters (arrowheads). By contrast, later events were at least indirectly dependent on microtubules. The apicoplast was able to elongate, but typically failed to divide (Fig. 6, row 2) (see also Striepen et al., 2000). The ER formed normal ruffles and extensions, but could not divide in the absence of nuclear division, although some material did associate with IMC aggregates (Fig. 6, row 3). Mitochondrial reticulation was also evident (Fig. 6, row 4), but these organelles failed to divide in oryzalin-treated parasites.
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) – which is conserved in Plasmodium species and other apicomplexan parasites (Khater et al., 2004) – forms an integral part of the scaffold upon which daughter parasites are assembled (Fig. 1) (Hu et al., 2002). Colocalization of multiple markers in living parasites has been used to construct a model of organellar events throughout the 6.5 hour T. gondii tachyzoite life cycle, as shown in Fig. 7 (key events are also summarized in Table 1). Note that the packaging of subcellular organelles is strictly coordinated, invariably proceeding in the following order: centriole and Golgi apicoplast nucleus and ER mitochondrion; rhoptries and micronemes are synthesized de novo in each daughter cell.
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The centriole is located near the Golgi and apicoplast in interphase cells (Fig. 2C), but migrates around the nucleus at the onset of mitosis (Fig. 2F), and replicates (Fig. 2I) before returning to the apical juxtanuclear region at approximately the same time as Golgi division and apicoplast elongation (Fig. 2J,K,L). Although centrioles are associated with the apicoplast through most of the cell cycle (Striepen et al., 2000), their migration results in a period of 1 hour where they are not associated with the ends of replicating Golgi or elongating apicoplasts (cf. Fig. 2F,G,H,I and Fig. 7) (Hartmann et al., 2006). The significance of centriole migration is not clear. Microtubule-mediated centriole or spindle pole motility and repositioning have been suggested to be important for many biological processes, including directional cell motility (Ueda et al., 1997), completion of cytokinesis (Piel et al., 2001) and delivery of secretory granules to the immunological synapses (Stinchocombe et al., 2006) (for reviews, see Hoyt, 2000; Manneville and Etienne-Manneville, 2006). Because two daughter cells form in various orientations irrespective of the mother's apical-basal axis (cf. Fig. 2M), and the migration occurs around the nucleus before the daughter scaffold formation, the centriole migration may be involved in defining the apical-basal polarity of daughter cells and subcellular structures. Further molecular and cellular characteristics of centriole separation and migration with respect to the polarity of daughter parasites are currently being investigated.
Elongation of both the Golgi (Fig. 2D) and apicoplast (Fig. 2E) begins prior to the initiation of daughter scaffold formation (Fig. 2J,K). At this stage, the apicoplast is often associated with the mitochondrion (Fig. 5B). Golgi fission (Fig. 2G) also precedes the initiation of daughter scaffold formation, and the developing scaffold immediately envelops the Golgi. All events up to this stage take place even in the presence of oryzalin (Fig. 6), which blocks the formation of subpellicular microtubules and organization of IMC that defines developing daughter parasites (Stokkermans et al., 1996; Morrissette and Sibley, 2002). The IMC is comprised of flattened vesicles, presumably derived from the Golgi complex (Porchet and Torpier, 1977; Dubremetz and Torpier, 1978; Nichols and Chiappino, 1987; Morrissette et al., 1997). Division of the apicoplast, ER and nucleus occur later, and the morphology of these processes suggests a link between elongation of the daughter scaffold and the segregation of these organelles. Consistent with this hypothesis, only the Golgi complex (Fig. 6, row 1) and centriole (Striepen et al., 2000) divide in oryzalin-treated cells.
The cytoskeletal scaffolding for progeny T. gondii parasites is initiated with the formation of two daughter conoids (Swedlow et al., 2002; Hu et al., 2006). This occurs before completion of DNA synthesis (Radke et al., 2001; Hu et al., 2002; Hu et al., 2004), and is presumed to nucleate IMC assembly (Fig. 2J,K). Plasmodium parasites lack an intact conoid, but retain the apical polar rings, which probably nucleate subpellicular microtubule polymerization (Russell and Sinden, 1982; Kaidoh et al., 1993). As daughter scaffolds elongate, DNA replication is completed, and the nucleus lobulates (Fig. 2N,O), coincident with formation of the intranuclear spindle (Swedlow et al., 2002) and the ramification of both the ER and mitochondrion (Fig. 3, Fig. 5A). Growth of the IMC scaffold first encapsulates the daughter centrioles and Golgi, followed by the apicoplast, and then the nucleus and ER (Fig. 2). Immature rhoptries and micronemes – specialized secretory organelles associated with host cell attachment, invasion, and virulence (Carruthers and Sibley, 1997; Taylor et al., 2006; Saeij et al., 2006; Saeij et al., 2007) – then begin to form de novo, within the developing parasites (Fig. 4). Interestingly, the mitochondrion is excluded from the daughter parasites until very late in the division process (Fig. 5A). Daughter parasites ultimately acquire their plasma membrane by budding out from the mother, leaving behind any unencapsulated material as a residual body (cf. Fig. 6, left, bottom two panels).
It is interesting that the parasite mitochondrion and plastid both replicate in concert with cell division, unlike the autonomous replication of these organelles in most eukaryotes (Kuroiwa et al., 1998; Pyke, 1999; Osteryoung, 2001; Yoon and McNiven, 2001). A precedent may be found in the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae (Suzuki et al., 1994; Kuroiwa, 2000; Miyagishima et al., 2001), which also replicates its mitochondrion and plastid in synchrony with nuclear mitosis. Although these organisms are phylogenetically unrelated, and differ in the precise mechanism of both organellar and nuclear division, each species possesses only a single mitochondrion and a single plastid, placing a premium on high-fidelity segregation.
Mitochondria in algae and chloroplasts (like their 
-proteobacterial and cyanobacterial ancestors) replicate by binary fission, a process associated with electron-dense rings containing ftsZ-related proteins (Osteryoung, 2001). The presence of such electron-dense rings in apicomplexans remains debatable (Bannister et al., 2000a; Matsuzaki et al., 2001; Ferguson et al., 2005), and no ftsZ orthologs are evident in the P. falciparum or T. gondii genome databases (Aurrecoechea et al., 2007). By contrast, the dynamin GTPase Dnm1p/Drp1 is involved in mitochondrial fission in yeast and mammalian systems (Cerveny et al., 2007). Although the T. gondii genome encodes two dynamin GTPases (Gene IDs 57.m01879 and 645.m00325), phylogenic analysis suggests that they are only distantly related to Dnm1p/Drp1 or Vps1p. In addition, 57.m01879 fused to a fluorescent protein appears to be distributed throughout the parasite. Our attempts at transient overexpression of putative dominant-negative mutants have not been successful (not shown).
In P. falciparum, the apicoplast and mitochondrion remain associated with each other throughout the asexual cycle (Hopkins et al., 1999; van Dooren et al., 2005). The mitochondrion and chloroplast are also found in close proximity and divide concurrently in the red algae C. merolae (Suzuki et al., 1994). In this study, we found that the T. gondii apicoplast and mitochondrion associate transiently, during the G1 and apicoplast elongation stages before daughter cell formation. Since these two organelles interact functionally (e.g. for heme biosynthesis), direct interaction between the apicoplast and mitochondrion may facilitate transfer of metabolic intermediates between these compartments.
The late entry of the mitochondrion into the developing daughter cell (Fig. 5A, +110-120') is quite distinct from the timing of apicoplast replication (Fig. 2, middle column). Movement of the mitochondrion into developing daughters may depend on cytoskeletal filaments and motors associated with the IMC, including intermediate filaments and microtubules (Mann and Beckers, 2001; Hu et al., 2002; Morrissette and Sibley, 2002). Mitochondrial movement depends on microtubules and their motors (e.g. kinesin 1) in many multicellular organisms, and on actin filaments and Arp2/3-complex-dependent actin polymerization in yeasts (reviewed by Boldogh and Pon, 2007). Intermediate filaments have also been implicated in mitochondrial movement in neuronal cells [neurofilaments (Wagner et al., 2003)], muscle cells [desmin (Milner et al., 2000)], and in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, where mutation of the intermediate-filament-like protein Mdm1p causes mitochondrial fragmentation, resulting in defective organellar transfer into daughter buds (McConnell et al., 1990; McConnell and Yaffe, 1993). Although no orthologs of these intermediate filament proteins are evident in T. gondii and Plasmodium spp., other intermediate-filament-like proteins – such as IMC1 – may be involved in mitochondrial distribution. In this study, we demonstrate that even under oryzalin treatment, the mitochondrion in T. gondii can extend and associate with local concentrations of IMC (Fig. 6, row 4, right). The majority of actin in apicomplexan parasites is found in monomeric form (Dobrowolski et al., 1997), and cytochalasin D has no effect on mitochondrial distribution in T. gondii (not shown).
The role (if any) of the residual body in organelle partitioning is unclear. On the basis of studies using the actin-filament-destabilizing agent cytochalasin D, Shaw et al. (Shaw et al., 2000) suggested that actin has no effect on parasite replication, but rather alters organelle turnover resulting in large residual bodies containing various organelles. Overexpression of MyoB has also been reported to increase the size of the residual body (Delbac et al., 2001). These may be nonspecific effects, however, as we have observed similar enhancement of residual body formation in response to various treatments (chloramphenicol, low temperature, etc.); it appears that any treatment reducing the efficiency of daughter cell assembly increases residual body size. We have also screened available cell cycle mutants, and parasites transiently transfected with a dominant-negative Rab GTPase, which may be involved in IMC formation, but none of these appears to affect organelle segregation specifically (data not shown).
How to build a parasite? Unlike most other eukaryotes, apicomplexan species contain only a single copy of many intracellular organelles, providing an appealing model system for studies on eukaryotic organellar replication (Hager et al., 1999; Striepen et al., 2000; Joiner and Roos, 2002; Pelletier et al., 2002; Hartmann et al., 2006). However, unlike most prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, apicomplexans replicate not by binary fission, but rather by assembling daughter cells within the mother – a process conceptually more closely analogous to viral self-assembly. This organization offers many attractive features, including high-fidelity delivery of single-copy organelles to dividing daughter cells, a highly polarized organization (required for host cell invasion, and therefore survival) and the ability to dispose of waste products by default – simply leaving behind unwanted material (such as the polymerized heme produced by hemoglobin digestion in malaria parasites) with the mother cell carcass, obviating the need for lysosomes (Shaw et al., 1998). Ensuring the fidelity of such a regimented cell assembly process undoubtedly requires careful regulation. Given the unusual nature of the parasite cell cycle, in which events associated with M phase and division in a typical eukaryotic cell (organellar replication, karyokinesis, mitosis, cytokinesis) span >75% of the parasite cell cycle, completely encompassing S phase, it will be interesting to exploit the accessibility of T. gondii to molecular genetic and cell biological manipulation (Roos et al., 1994; Striepen and Soldati, 2007), and the recent completion of the parasite genome (Aurrecoechea et al., 2007), to explore mechanisms of cell cycle control (Radke and White, 1998; Hu et al., 2004).
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). For experiments with oryzalin (stock solution 10 mM in DMSO, DowElanco), 3-5x105 parasites were inoculated into HFF monolayers grown on 22 mm glass coverslips and incubated without drugs for 12-16 hours. Oryzalin was then added to a final concentration of 1 µM, and parasites were cultivated 24 hours after drug addition. For experiments with cytochalasin D (stock solution 1 mM in DMSO, Sigma), sub-confluent human epithelial cell lines KB and Cyt-1 (Toyama and Toyama, 1984) grown on 22 mm glass coverslips were infected with parasites for 1 hour. Coverslips were washed extensively with Ed1 medium to remove extracellular parasites and cytochalasin D in Ed1 medium was added to coverslips with Cyt-1 cells only to a final concentration of 1 µM and parasites were cultivated for an additional 24 hours.
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The following conventions are used for describing primer sequences: underlining indicates restriction sites, capitalization indicates stop or start codons, bold indicates introduced coding sequence. All expression vectors used in this study are based on the pBluescript II KS+ backbone (Stratagene) with recombinant sequences inserted between the 5' HindIII and 3' NotI sites. Except where otherwise noted, all plasmids include the following domains: (1) a HindIII-BglII fragment containing a promoter derived from T. gondii -tubulin or DHFR-TS; the BglII site lies upstream of the initiation codon (typically...agatctaaaATG...). (2) A BglII-AvrII fragment containing protein coding sequence (ACPL, FNRL, GRASP, HSP60L, IMC1 or P30L); the L subscript indicates use of a truncated protein that is sufficient to mediate targeting: apicoplast targeting signals are from ACP and FNR, the mitochondrial targeting signal is from HSP60. (3) An AvrII-PstI (or AvrII-AflII) fragment containing a fluorescent protein reporter (GFP, YFP, DsRed, mRFP), sometimes fused to a C-terminal epitope for targeting (e.g. HDEL) (Hager et al., 1999). (4) A PstI (or AflII)-NotI fragment containing 3' sequences derived from T. gondii DHFR-TS. (5) An optional sagCATsag cassette, for chloramphenicol selection of stable transgenics.
Construction methods have previously been described for the basic GFP-expressing vector pdhfr
CAT-GFP, and the secretion vectors ptubP30L-GFP and ptubP30L-YFP (Striepen et al., 1998; Matrajt et al., 2002), as well as constructs that label the ER (ptubP30L-GFP-HDEL) (Hager et al., 1999), Golgi (ptubGRASP-YFP) (Pelletier et al., 2002), IMC (ptubIMC1-YFP) (Hu et al., 2002), micronemes (ptubMIC3-GFP) (Striepen et al., 1998), rhoptries (ptubROP1-CAT-YFP) (Dzierszinski et al., 2004) and apicoplast [ptubACPL-EGFP (Waller et al., 1998); ptubFNRL-YFP (Striepen et al., 2000; Harb et al., 2004); ptubFNRL-DsRed (He et al., 2001)]. For labeling the mitochondrion, sequences encoding the 55 N-terminal residues of T. gondii heatshock protein 60 (Toursel et al., 2000) were amplified from tachyzoite cDNA using primers 5'-atgcagatctaaaATGcttgcccgcgcttca-3' and 5'-cagtcctagggccgagagtgactccgac-3', and introduced as a BglII-AvrII fragment into ptubIMC1-YFP and ptubFNRL-DsRed, yielding ptubHSP60L-YFP and ptubHSP60L-DsRed, respectively.
Because the PstI site used to separate coding from 3' noncoding sequences is also present in the upstream polylinker, a new plasmid was engineered to replace the downstream PstI with a unique AflII restriction site. The BglII-PstI domain from ptubACPL-EGFP was replaced by a fragment obtained by amplification using primers 5'-ggaagatctaaaATGgagatgcatccccgcaacgc-3' and 5'-ctagctgcagcttaagcttgtacagctcgtccatgccgagagtgatc-3'. The resulting plasmid was digested with AflII and NotI, and 3' flanking sequences were replaced by a fragment amplified using primers 5'-tagcttaagTAAacagaagctgcccgtctctcg-3' and 5'-taatacgactcactataggg-3' (from the T7 promoter region downstream of the NotI site), to yield ptubACPL-EGFP(Afl). ptubFNRL-YFP-6xHis was constructed using primers 5'-tgcagatctacaATGgttcggggcatccgtcctc-3' and 5'-tgacttaagTTAgtgatggtggtgatggtggctagccttgtacagctcgtccatgccgagag-3' to amplify FNRL-YFP from ptubFNRL-YFP, introducing a NheI site followed by six histidine codons immediately upstream of the termination codon. Plasmid ptubFNRL-mRFP was constructed by replacing the YFP-6xHis domain with a fragment amplified from plasmid pRSET-mRFP1 (kindly provided by R. Tsien, University of California, San Diego, CA) (Campbell et al., 2002) using primers 5'-atgcgtccctagggcctcctccgaggacgtcatc-3' and 5'-ctgcatcttaagTTAggcgccggtggagtggcggcc-3' to amplify mRFP. Plasmids ptubGRASP-mRFP, ptubIMC1-mRFP and ptubACPL-mRFP were constructed by replacing FNRL with GRASP, IMC1 and ACPL from a BglII/AvrII digestion of ptubGRASP-YFP, ptubIMC1-YFP and ptubACPL-EGFP, respectively. Plasmids ptubACPL-YFP and ptubACPL-DsRed were constructed by replacing FNRL in ptubFNRL-YFP and ptubFNRL-DsRed with ACPL in ptubACPL-EGFP via BglII-AvrII digestion. Plasmid ptubP30L-YFP-HDEL was constructed using a BglII-AflII fragment amplified from a P30L-YFP plasmid using primers 5'-ggaagatctATGtcggtttcgctgcac-3' and 5'-gcatcttaagCTAcaactcgtcgtgcttgtacagctcgtcc-3'; ptubP30L-mRFP-HDEL was constructed by replacing YFP-HDEL with mRFP-HDEL, obtained by amplification using primers 5'-atgccctagggcctcctccgaggacgtcatcaag-3' and 5'-ctgcatcttaagCTAcaactcgtcgtgggcgccggtggagtggcggcc-3'.
High-level expression of centrin under control of the tubulin promoter produced large amounts of cytosolic protein (data not shown). The BglII-NotI fragment from plasmid pdhfrCAT-GFP (Matrajt et al., 2002) was therefore replaced with the sequences from ptubACPL-EGFP(Afl), to yield pdhfrACPL-EGFP(Afl). EGFP-Homo sapiens (Hs) Centrin was amplified from pEGFP-CENT2 (White et al., 2000) using primers 5'-gctagggatccgctagcaaaATGgtgagcaagggcgaggagctg-3' and 5'-gtcacttaagTTAatagaggctggtctttttcatg-3', and introduced as a BamHI-AflII fragment into BglII-AflII-digested pdhfrACPL-EGFP(Afl), yielding pdhfrEGFP-HsCentrin, with a 5' NheI site in place of the original BglII site, and a unique BglII site between EGFP and HsCentrin. Finally, HsCentrin was replaced with T. gondii centrin amplified from a T. gondii cDNA using primers 5'-cgatagatctcatagtcggaaaggagcgagctctc-3' and 5'-acgtcttaagCTAgaacagattcgtctttctcatgat-3' (based on sequences obtained from ToxoDB.org), to yield plasmid pdhfrEGFP-TgCentrin, which places centrin expression under control of the weaker DHFR promoter.
Transfections were performed as previously described (Roos et al., 1994). Briefly, 107 parasites were electroporated (2-mm-gap cuvette, BTX; 1.5 keV pulse, 24 
) with 50 µg plasmid DNA containing a sagCATsag cassette for selection in 20 µM chloramphenicol, or cotransfected with 5 µg pDHFR-TSc3 for selection in 1 µM pyrimethamine, and individual clones were isolated by limiting dilution. The following stable, clonal parasite cell lines were obtained by selection in chloramphenicol: P30L-mRFP-HDEL, GRASP-mRFP, IMC1-YFP (Hu et al., 2002), ACPL-EGFP (Striepen et al., 2000), FNRL-DsRed (He et al., 2001), FNRL-mRFP, ACPL-mRFP, HSP60L-YFP, and HSP60L-DsRed; the following lines were obtained by selection in pyrimethamine: P30L-YFP-HDEL and EGFP-TgCentrin (Hartmann et al., 2006). The following doubly resistant transgenic lines were isolated by selection in chloramphenicol followed by pyrimethamine: IMC1-YFP/P30L-mRFP-HDEL, IMC1-YFP/GRASP-mRFP, IMC1-YFP/HSP60L-DsRed, FNRL-DsRed/HSP60L-YFP, and ACPL-EGFP/HSP60L-DsRed. In some experiments, colocalization and analysis of organellar association was also carried out by transient transfection of stably-transformed parasites.
Microscopy
For fixed fluorescence analyses, 3-5x105 parasites were inoculated onto confluent HFF cell monolayers grown on 22 mm glass coverslips, and examined after incubation for 24-32 hours at 37°C. Coverslips were then fixed in 3.7% paraformaldehyde and permeabilized with 0.25% Triton X-100 in PBS (phosphate-buffered saline). For immunofluorescence assay, rabbit polyclonal anti-ACP antibody (Waller et al., 1998) (1:1000) was used followed by Alexa Fluor 594-conjugated goat anti-rabbit antibody (1:5000) (Invitrogen). For DNA labeling, coverslips were incubated after permeabilization in 2.8 µM 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole dihydrochloride (DAPI, Invitrogen) in PBS for 5 minutes and washed twice with PBS. Coverslips were mounted with Fluoromount G (Southern Biotechnology Associates). For time-lapse microscopy, 3-5x105 parasites were inoculated into confluent HFF cell monolayers grown in glass-bottomed dishes (MatTek) and incubated at 37°C for 16-24 hours. Media was buffered with 25 mM HEPES pH 7.0 (Gibco) immediately prior to examination at 37°C using a humidified observation chamber (Murray, 2003).
Image stacks were collected using an Olympus IX70 inverted microscope equipped with a 100W Hg-vapor lamp with appropriate barrier or emission filters (DeltaVision). Images were captured using a CoolSNAP HQ cooled-CCD camera (Photometrics) and DeltaVision softWorx software (Applied Precision). All image stacks were deconvolved to remove the effects of fluorescence arising from out-of-focus planes using DeltaVision softWorx software (Applied Precision).
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