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2015 ; 96
(2
): 368-87
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Plasmodium falciparum?SERA5 plays a non-enzymatic role in the malarial asexual
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Stallmach R
; Kavishwar M
; Withers-Martinez C
; Hackett F
; Collins CR
; Howell SA
; Yeoh S
; Knuepfer E
; Atid AJ
; Holder AA
; Blackman MJ
Mol Microbiol
2015[Apr]; 96
(2
): 368-87
PMID25599609
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The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum replicates in an intraerythrocytic
parasitophorous vacuole (PV). The most abundant P.?falciparum?PV protein, called
SERA5, is essential in blood stages and possesses a papain-like domain, prompting
speculation that it functions as a proteolytic enzyme. Unusually however, SERA5
possesses a Ser residue (Ser596) at the position of the canonical catalytic Cys
of papain-like proteases, and the function of SERA5 or whether it performs an
enzymatic role is unknown. In this study, we failed to detect proteolytic
activity associated with the Ser596-containing parasite-derived or recombinant
protein. However, substitution of Ser596 with a Cys residue produced an active
recombinant enzyme with characteristics of a cysteine protease, demonstrating
that SERA5 can bind peptides. Using targeted homologous recombination in
P.?falciparum, we substituted Ser596 with Ala with no phenotypic consequences,
proving that SERA5 does not perform an essential enzymatic role in the parasite.
We could also replace an internal segment of SERA5 with an affinity-purification
tag. In contrast, using almost identical targeting constructs, we could not
truncate or C-terminally tag the SERA5 gene, or replace Ser596 with a bulky Arg
residue. Our findings show that SERA5 plays an indispensable but non-enzymatic
role in the P.?falciparum blood-stage life cycle.