Biology:Trypanosomatida

Short description: Flagellate kinetoplastid excavate order

Trypanosomes Temporal range: Albian to recent 100–0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Trypanosoma cruzi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Phylum:	Euglenozoa
Class:	Kinetoplastea
Subclass:	Metakinetoplastina
Order:	Trypanosomatida Kent 1880
Family:	Trypanosomatidae Doflein 1901
Subfamily
Blechomonadinae Leishmaniinae Clade Crithidiatae Clade Leishmaniatae Paratrypanosomatinae Phytomonadinae Strigomonadinae Trypanosomatinae

Trypanosomatida is a group of kinetoplastid unicellular organisms distinguished by having only a single flagellum. The name is derived from the Greek trypano (borer) and soma (body) because of the corkscrew-like motion of some trypanosomatid species. All members are exclusively parasitic, found primarily in insects. A few genera have life-cycles involving a secondary host, which may be a vertebrate, invertebrate or plant. These include several species that cause major diseases in humans. Some trypanosomatida are intracellular parasites, with the important exception of Trypanosoma brucei.

Medical importance

The three major human diseases caused by trypanosomatids are; African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness, caused by Trypanosoma brucei and transmitted by tsetse flies), South American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease, caused by T. cruzi and transmitted by triatomine bugs), and leishmaniasis (a set of trypanosomal diseases caused by various species of Leishmania transmitted by sandflies).

Evolution

The family is known from fossils of the extinct genus Paleoleishmania preserved in Burmese amber dating to the Albian (100 mya) and Dominican amber from the Burdigalian (20–15 mya) of Hispaniola. The genus Trypanosoma is also represented in Dominican amber in the extinct species T. antiquus.

Taxonomy

Three genera are dixenous (two hosts in the life cycle) – Leishmania, Phytomonas and Trypanosoma. The remainder are monoxenous (one host in the life cycle). Paratrypanosoma appears to be the first evolving branch in this order. Fifteen genera are recognised in the Trypanosomatidae and there are three subfamilies – Blechomonadinae, Leishmaniinae and Strigomonadinae. The genera in the subfamily Strigomonadinae are characterised by the presence of obligatory intracellular bacteria of the Kinetoplastibacterium genus.

• Family Trypanosomatidae Calkins 1926 [Trypanomorphidae Woodcock 1906; Trypanosomataceae Senn 1911]
  • Genus Agamomonas Grassé 1952
  • Genus Batracoleishmania Dasgupta 2011
  • Genus Blastocrithidia Laird 1959
  • Genus Cercoplasma Roubaud 1911
  • Genus Cystotrypanosoma Roubaud 1911
  • Genus Jaenimonas Votypka & Hamilton 2015
  • Genus Lamellasoma Davis 1947
  • Genus Leptowallaceina Podlipaev & Frolov 2000
  • Genus Lewisonella Chalmers 1918 nomen dubium
  • Genus Malacozoomonas Nicoli, Penaud & Timon-David 1972
  • Genus Nematodomonas Nicoli, Penaud & Timon-David 1972
  • Genus †Paleoleishmania Poinar & Poinar, 2004
  • Genus †Paleotrypanosoma Poinar 2008
  • Genus Paramecioides Grassé 1882
  • Genus Sauroleishmania Ranque 1973
  • Genus Sergeia Svobodová et al. 2007 non Stimpson 1860 non Nasonov 1923 non Sergio Manning & Lemaitre 1994
  • Genus Trypanomonas Danilewsky 1885
  • Genus Trypanomorpha Woodcock 1906
  • Genus Undulina Lankester 187
  • Genus Wallaceina Bulat, Mokrousov & Podlipaev 1999 [Proteomonas Podlipaev, Frolov & Kolesnikov 1990 non Hill & Wetherbee 1986]
  • Genus Wallacemonas Kostygov & Yurchenko 2014
  • Subfamily Paratrypanosomatinae Votýpka & Lukeš 2013
    • Genus Paratrypanosoma Votypka & Lukes 2013
  • Subfamily Trypanosomatinae

T. equiperdum

• Genus Trypanosoma Gruby 1843

• Subfamily Blechomonadinae Votypka & Suková 2013

• Genus Blechomonas Votypka & Suková 2013

L. donovani

• Subfamily Leishmaniinae sensu Maslov & Lukeš 2012

• Clade Crithidiatae Maslov & Lukeš 2012

C. luciliae

• Genus Crithidia Léger 1902
• Genus Leptomonas Kent 1880
• Genus Lotmaria Schwarz 2015

• Clade Leishmaniatae Maslov & Lukeš 2012

• Genus Borovskyia Kostygov & Yurchenko 2017
• Genus Endotrypanum Mesnil & Brimont 1908
• Genus Leishmania Ross 1903
• Genus Novymonas Votýpka et al. 2015
• Genus Paraleishmania Cupolillo et al. 2000
• Genus Zelonia Shaw, Camargo et Teixeira 2016

• Subfamily Phytomonadinae Kostygov & Yurchenko 2015

• Genus Herpetomonas Kent 1880 non Donovan 1909

• Genus Lafontella Kostygov & Yurchenko 2015

P. serpens

• Genus Phytomonas Donovan 1909

• Subfamily Strigomonadinae Votypka et al. 2014

File:Angomonas deanei structure.TIF

• Genus Angomonas Souza & Corte-Real 1991
• Genus Kentomonas Votypka et al. 2014
• Genus Strigomonas Lwoff & Lwoff 1931

Life cycle

Some trypanosomatids only occupy a single host, while many others are heteroxenous: they live in more than one host species over their life cycle. This heteroxenous life cycle typically includes the intestine of a bloodsucking insect and the blood and/or tissues of a vertebrate. Rarer hosts include other bloodsucking invertebrates, such as leeches, and other organisms such as plants. Different species go through a range of different morphologies at different stages of the life cycle, with most having at least two different morphologies. Typically the promastigote and epimastigote forms are found in insect hosts, trypomastigote forms in the mammalian bloodstream and amastigotes in intracellular environments.

Among commonly studied examples, T. brucei, T. congolense, and T. vivax are extracellular, while T. cruzi and Leishmania spp. are intracellular. Trypanosomatids with intracellular stages express δ-amastin proteins on their surfaces. de Paiva et al., 2015 illuminates δ-amastins' roles in intracellular success.

Sexual reproduction

Trypanosomatids that cause globally known diseases such leishmaniasis (Leishmania species), African trypanosomiasis referred to as sleeping sickness (Trypanosoma brucei), and Chagas disease (Trypanosoma cruzi) were found to be capable of meiosis and genetic exchange. These findings indicate the capability for sexual reproduction in the Trypanosomatida.

Morphologies

Six main morphologies

A variety of different morphological forms appear in the life cycles of trypanosomatids, distinguished mainly by the position, length and the cell body attachment of the flagellum. The kinetoplast is found closely associated with the basal body at the base of the flagellum and all species of trypanosomatid have a single nucleus. Most of these morphologies can be found as a life cycle stage in all trypanosomatid genera however certain morphologies are particularly common in a particular genus. The various morphologies were originally named from the genus where the morphology was commonly found, although this terminology is now rarely used because of potential confusion between morphologies and genus. Modern terminology is derived from the Greek; "mastig", meaning whip (referring to the flagellum), and a prefix which indicates the location of the flagellum on the cell. For example, the amastigote (prefix "a-", meaning no flagellum) form is also known as the leishmanial form as all Leishmania have an amastigote life cycle stage.

• Amastigote (leishmanial). Amastigotes are a common morphology during an intracellular lifecycle stage in a mammalian host. All Leishmania have an amastigote stage of the lifecycle. Leishmania amastigotes are particularly small and are among the smallest eukaryotic cells. The flagellum is very short, projecting only slightly beyond the flagellar pocket.
• Promastigote (leptomonad). The promastigote form is a common morphology in the insect host. The flagellum is found anterior of nucleus and flagellum not attached to the cell body. The kinetoplast is located in front of the nucleus, near the anterior end of the body.
• Epimastigote (crithidial). Epimastigotes are a common form in the insect host and Crithidia and Blastocrithidia, both parasites of insects, exhibit this form during their life cycles. The flagellum exits the cell anterior of nucleus and is connected to the cell body for part of its length by an undulating membrane. The kinetoplast is located between the nucleus and the anterior end.
• Trypomastigote (trypanosomal). This stage is characteristic of the genus Trypanosoma in the mammalian host bloodstream as well as infective metacyclic stages in the fly vector. In trypomastigotes the kinetoplast is near the posterior end of the body, and the flagellum lies attached to the cell body for most of its length by an undulating membrane.
• Opisthomastigote (herpetomonad). A rarer morphology where the flagellum posterior of nucleus, passing through a long groove in the cell.
• Endomastigote. A morphotype where the flagellum does not extend beyond the deep flagellar pocket.

• 

  Amastigote: False colour SEM micrograph of amastigote form Leishmania mexicana. The cell body is shown in orange and the flagellum is in red. 219 pixels/μm.

• 

  Promastigote: False colour SEM micrograph of promastigote form Leishmania mexicana. The cell body is shown in orange and the flagellum is in red. 119 pixels/μm.

• 

  Trypomastigote: False colour SEM micrograph of procyclic form Trypanosoma brucei. The cell body is shown in orange and the flagellum is in red. 84 pixels/μm.

Other features

Notable characteristics of trypanosomatids are the ability to perform trans-splicing of RNA and possession of glycosomes, where much of their glycolysis is confined to. The acidocalcisome, another organelle, was first identified in trypanosomes.

Bacterial endosymbioant

Kinetoplastibacterium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Betaproteobacteria
Order:	Burkholderiales
Family:	Alcaligenaceae
Genus:	Ca. "Kinetoplastibacterium" Du et al., 1994

Six species of trypanosomatids are known to carry an additional proteobacterial endosymbioant, termed TPE (trypanosomatid proteobacterial endosymbionts). These trypansomatids (Strigomonas oncopelti, S. culicis, S. galati, Angomonas desouzai, and A. deanei) are in turn known as SHTs, for symbiont-harboring trypanosomatids. All such symbionts have a shared evolutionary origin and are classified in the Candidatus genus "Kinetoplastibacterium".

As with many symbionts, the bacteria have a much reduced genome compared to their free-living relatives of genera Taylorella and Achromobacter. (GTDB finds the genus sister to Proftella, a symbiont of Diaphorina citri.) Reflecting their inability to live alone, they have lost genes dedicated to essential biological functions, relying on the host instead. They have modified their division to become synchronized with the host. In S. culicis at least, the TPE helps the host by synthesizing heme and producing essential enzymes, staying tethered to the kinetoplast.

References

• Bütikofer P, Ruepp S, Boschung M, Roditi I; Ruepp; Boschung; Roditi (September 1997). "'GPEET' procyclin is the major surface protein of procyclic culture forms of Trypanosoma brucei brucei strain 427". Biochemical Journal 326 (Pt 2): 415–23. doi:10.1042/bj3260415. PMID 9291113. 
• Dean S, Marchetti R, Kirk K, Matthews KR; Marchetti; Kirk; Matthews (May 2009). "A surface transporter family conveys the trypanosome differentiation signal". Nature 459 (7244): 213–7. doi:10.1038/nature07997. PMID 19444208. Bibcode: 2009Natur.459..213D. 
• Engstler M, Boshart M; Boshart (November 2004). "Cold shock and regulation of surface protein trafficking convey sensitization to inducers of stage differentiation in Trypanosoma brucei". Genes & Development 18 (22): 2798–811. doi:10.1101/gad.323404. PMID 15545633. 
• Hofer A, Steverding D, Chabes A, Brun R, Thelander L; Steverding; Chabes; Brun; Thelander (May 2001). "Trypanosoma brucei CTP synthetase: a target for the treatment of African sleeping sickness". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 98 (11): 6412–6. doi:10.1073/pnas.111139498. PMID 11353848. Bibcode: 2001PNAS...98.6412H. 
• Janovy, J; Roberts, L.S. (2005). Foundations of Parasitology (7th ed.). New York NY: McGraw Hill. pp. 61–69. 
• "Treatment of human African trypanosomiasis—present situation and needs for research and development". Lancet Infectious Diseases 2 (7): 437–40. July 2002. doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(02)00321-3. PMID 12127356. 
• Matthews KR (January 2005). "The developmental cell biology of Trypanosoma brucei". Journal of Cell Science 118 (Pt 2): 283–90. doi:10.1242/jcs.01649. PMID 15654017. 
• Matthews KR, Gull K; Gull (June 1994). "Evidence for an interplay between cell cycle progression and the initiation of differentiation between life cycle forms of African trypanosomes". Journal of Cell Biology 125 (5): 1147–56. doi:10.1083/jcb.125.5.1147. PMID 8195296. 
• Morrison LJ, Marcello L, McCulloch R; Marcello; McCulloch (December 2009). "Antigenic variation in the African trypanosome: molecular mechanisms and phenotypic complexity". Cellular Microbiology 11 (12): 1724–34. doi:10.1111/j.1462-5822.2009.01383.x. PMID 19751359. http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/8339/1/8339.pdf. Retrieved 2019-07-10. 
• Seed JR, Wenck MA; Wenck (June 2003). "Role of the long slender to short stumpy transition in the life cycle of the African trypanosomes". Kinetoplastid Biology and Disease 2 (1): 3. doi:10.1186/1475-9292-2-3. PMID 12844365. 
• Shadan S (May 2009). "Microbiology: Signals for change". Nature 459 (7244): 175. doi:10.1038/459175a. PMID 19444199. Bibcode: 2009Natur.459..175S. 
• Sherwin T, Gull K; Gull (June 1989). "The cell division cycle of Trypanosoma brucei brucei: timing of event markers and cytoskeletal modulations". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 323 (1218): 573–88. doi:10.1098/rstb.1989.0037. PMID 2568647. Bibcode: 1989RSPTB.323..573S. 
• "African trypanosomiasis". World Health Organization. August 2006. https://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs259/en/. 
• (online). A comprehensive survey of the organisms' natural history.

External links

• Trykipedia, Trypanosomatid specific ontologies
• Tree of Life: Trypanosomatida
• Taxonomya at BOLD Systems
• Taxonomy at Taxonomicon
• Open Tree Taxonomy
• ZipcodeZoo

Wikidata ☰ Q132954 entry