Quantum dots: a new tool for anti-malarial drug assays
Abstract Background Malaria infects over 300 million people every year and one of the major obstacles for the eradication of the disease is parasite's resistance to current chemotherapy, thus new drugs are urgently needed. Quantum dot (QD) is a fluorescent nanocrystal that has been in the spotl...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:daac58a8c406489281a7a0566b1267f8 2023-05-15T15:10:52+02:00 Quantum dots: a new tool for anti-malarial drug assays Ryu Jiyoung Moraes Carolina B Choi Youngseon Dossin Fernando M Ku Min-Je Song Rita Freitas-Junior Lucio H 2011-05-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-10-118 https://doaj.org/article/daac58a8c406489281a7a0566b1267f8 EN eng BMC http://www.malariajournal.com/content/10/1/118 https://doaj.org/toc/1475-2875 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-10-118 1475-2875 https://doaj.org/article/daac58a8c406489281a7a0566b1267f8 Malaria Journal, Vol 10, Iss 1, p 118 (2011) Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 article 2011 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-10-118 2022-12-31T11:53:00Z Abstract Background Malaria infects over 300 million people every year and one of the major obstacles for the eradication of the disease is parasite's resistance to current chemotherapy, thus new drugs are urgently needed. Quantum dot (QD) is a fluorescent nanocrystal that has been in the spotlight as a robust tool for visualization of live cell processes in real time. Here, a simple and efficient method using QD to directly label Plasmodium falciparum -infected erythrocytes (iRBCs) was searched in order to use the QD as a probe in an anti-malarial drug-screening assay. Methods A range of QDs with different chemical coatings were tested for their ability to specifically bind iRBCs by immunofluorescence assay (IFA). One QD was selected and used to detect parasite growth and drug sensitivity by flow cytometry. Results PEGylated-cationic QD (PCQD) was found to specifically label infected erythrocytes preferentially with late stage parasites. The detection of QD-labelled infected erythrocytes by flow cytometry was sensitive enough to monitor chloroquine anti-malarial toxicity with a drug incubation period as short as 24 h (EC 50 = 113nM). A comparison of our assay with another widely used anti-malarial drug screening assay, the pLDH assay, showed that PCQD-based assay had 50% improved sensitivity in detecting drug efficacy within a parasite life cycle. An excellent Z-factor of 0.8 shows that the QD assay is suitable for high-throughput screening. Conclusions This new assay can offer a rapid and robust platform to screen novel classes of anti-malarial drugs. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Malaria Journal 10 1 118 |
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Abstract Background Malaria infects over 300 million people every year and one of the major obstacles for the eradication of the disease is parasite's resistance to current chemotherapy, thus new drugs are urgently needed. Quantum dot (QD) is a fluorescent nanocrystal that has been in the spotlight as a robust tool for visualization of live cell processes in real time. Here, a simple and efficient method using QD to directly label Plasmodium falciparum -infected erythrocytes (iRBCs) was searched in order to use the QD as a probe in an anti-malarial drug-screening assay. Methods A range of QDs with different chemical coatings were tested for their ability to specifically bind iRBCs by immunofluorescence assay (IFA). One QD was selected and used to detect parasite growth and drug sensitivity by flow cytometry. Results PEGylated-cationic QD (PCQD) was found to specifically label infected erythrocytes preferentially with late stage parasites. The detection of QD-labelled infected erythrocytes by flow cytometry was sensitive enough to monitor chloroquine anti-malarial toxicity with a drug incubation period as short as 24 h (EC 50 = 113nM). A comparison of our assay with another widely used anti-malarial drug screening assay, the pLDH assay, showed that PCQD-based assay had 50% improved sensitivity in detecting drug efficacy within a parasite life cycle. An excellent Z-factor of 0.8 shows that the QD assay is suitable for high-throughput screening. Conclusions This new assay can offer a rapid and robust platform to screen novel classes of anti-malarial drugs. |
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