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Comparison of effects of green tea catechins on apicomplexan hexose transporters and mammalian orthologues

Slavic, K; Derbyshire, ET; Naftalin, RJ; Krishna, S; Staines, HM (2009) Comparison of effects of green tea catechins on apicomplexan hexose transporters and mammalian orthologues. MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY, 168 (1). 113 - 116. ISSN 0166-6851 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molbiopara.2009.06.008
SGUL Authors: Krishna, Sanjeev Staines, Henry Michael Slavic, Ksenija

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Abstract

Here we have investigated the inhibitory properties of green tea catechins on the Plasmodium falciparum hexose transporter (PfHT), the Babesia bovis hexose transporter 1 (BboHT1) and the mammalian facilitative glucose transporters, GLUT1 and GLUT5, expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes. (−)-Epicatechin-gallate (ECG) and (−)-epigallocatechin-gallate (EGCG) inhibited d-glucose transport by GLUT1 and PfHT, and d-fructose transport by GLUT5, with apparent Ki values between 45 and 117 μM. BboHT1 was more potently inhibited by the ungallated catechins (−)-epicatechin (EC) and (−)-epigallocatechin (EGC), with apparent Ki values of 108 and 168 μM, respectively. Site-directed mutagenesis experiments provided little further support for previously reported models of catechin binding to hexose transporters. Furthermore, P. falciparum growth inhibition by catechins was not affected by the external d-glucose concentration. Our results provide new data on the inhibitory action of catechins against sugar transporters but were unable to elucidate the antimalarial mechanism of action of these agents.

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Additional Information: © 2009 Elsevier B.V. Under a Creative Commons license (CC BY 3.0).
Keywords: Animals, Babesia bovis, Catechin, Enzyme Inhibitors, Glucose Transporter Type 1, Glucose Transporter Type 5, Mammals, Monosaccharide Transport Proteins, Oocytes, Plasmodium falciparum, Tea, Xenopus laevis, Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Parasitology, Glucose, Transport, GLUT1/5, PfHT, BboHT1, Oocyte, PLASMODIUM-FALCIPARUM, GLUCOSE-TRANSPORTER, BINDING-SITE, GALLATE, GLUT1, FABG
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: Academic Structure > Infection and Immunity Research Institute (INII)
Journal or Publication Title: MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY
ISSN: 0166-6851
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1 November 2009Published
Web of Science ID: WOS:000270019800015
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URI: https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/96
Publisher's version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molbiopara.2009.06.008

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