Organoid-based in vitro system and reporter for the study of Cryptosporidium parvum sexual reproduction.

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Tác giả: Alexandra Cameron, Emmett A Dews, Christopher Dwight Huston, Bethany R Korwin-Mihavics, Bruno Martorelli di Genova, Peter Jonathon Miller

Ngôn ngữ: eng

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Thông tin xuất bản: United States : bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology , 2025

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Bộ sưu tập: NCBI

ID: 677079

Many advances have been made recently in our understanding of Cryptosporidium asexual cycle and sexual differentiation. However, the process of fertilization, which is required for transmission of infectious oocysts, is not well understood. Typical cancer cell-based culture only allows robust exploration of asexual cycle and sexual differentiation of Cryptosporidium. To facilitate exploration of sexual reproduction in C. parvum we developed an organoid-based culture system that supports Cryptosporidium full life cycle and a novel fertilization reporter. Organoid derived monolayers (ODMs) supported fertilization and oocyst production and maintained the infection for up to 3 weeks. ODM derived oocysts were infectious in vivo. Fertilization was confirmed by successfully mating two strains of C. parvum and with a novel fertilization switch reporter. The fertilization switch reporter utilizes a DiCre system in which cre fragments are expressed under the control of sexual stage promoters resulting in a rapamycin inducible switch in fluorescent protein expression from mCherry to mNeonGreen after fertilization that is spatially and temporally controlled. This results in mCherry positive parasites in the first generation and offspring that express mNeonGreen. In vivo validation of the fertilization switch reporter demonstrated the precision and efficiency of the fertilization switch reporter and confirmed excision of the mCherry gene sequence only after rapamycin treatment. The start of a second generation of parasites was also shown in the ODMs and rarely in HCT8s. Use of this reporter in ODMs can help investigate the Cryptosporidium lifecycle post sexual differentiation in a physiologically relevant in vitro system.
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