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. 1988 Jun;85(11):3825–3829. doi: 10.1073/pnas.85.11.3825

Inhibition of surface membrane maturation in schistosomula of Schistosoma mansoni.

P M Wiest 1, A M Tartakoff 1, M Aikawa 1, A A Mahmoud 1
PMCID: PMC280312  PMID: 3375243

Abstract

The surface membrane of the multicellular parasite Schistosoma mansoni is radically reorganized during the transformation of cercariae into schistosomula. The current study investigates factors involved in maturation of the surface from a trilaminate to a multilaminate membrane. When maturation was induced in the presence of puromycin (900 microM), the acquisition of a multilaminate surface and stainability with fluorescein-conjugated Con A were similar to that of control parasites. Similarly, although organisms treated with monensin (0.1 microM) for 3 hr showed large vacuoles in the perinuclear cytoplasm of the subtegumental cells, the surface membrane became multilaminate. In contrast, microtubule-active drugs interfered with maturation: the surface remained largely trilaminate and the percentage of organisms binding Con A to their surface was significantly reduced. Furthermore, large accumulations of multilaminate bodies were found in the subtegumental cells of colchicine-treated parasites, whereas few were seen in the controls. Colchicine-treated schistosomula failed to mature to adult worms upon injection into mice and, like cercariae, they were water tolerant. We therefore conclude that the components that constitute the schistosomula surface preexist in cercariae and suggest that they are stored in multilaminate bodies before being transported to the surface with the help of microtubules. The acquisition of the multilaminate membrane may be essential for survival of the parasites in vivo and in vitro.

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