3D imaging of undissected optically cleared Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes and midguts infected with Plasmodium parasites

• Verfasst von: Niz, Mariana De [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Kehrer, Jessica [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Brancucci, Nicolas Michel Beat [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Moalli, Federica [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Reynaud, Emmanuel G. [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Stein, Jens V. [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Frischknecht, Friedrich [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: 3D imaging of undissected optically cleared Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes and midguts infected with Plasmodium parasites
• Verf.angabe: Mariana De Niz, Jessica Kehrer, Nicolas M. B. Brancucci, Federica Moalli, Emmanuel G. Reynaud, Jens V. Stein, Friedrich Frischknecht
• E-Jahr: 2020
• Jahr: September 16, 2020
• Umfang: 18 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 22.10.2020
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: PLOS ONE
• Ort Quelle: San Francisco, California, US : PLOS, 2006
• Jahr Quelle: 2020
• Band/Heft Quelle: 15(2020,9) Artikel-Nummer e0238134, 18 Seiten
• ISSN Quelle: 1932-6203
• DOI: doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0238134
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Artificial light
• Sach-SW: Imaging techniques
• Sach-SW: Light-sheet fluorescence microscopy
• Sach-SW: Mosquitoes
• Sach-SW: Parasitic diseases
• Sach-SW: Plasmodium
• Sach-SW: Specimen sectioning
• Sach-SW: Vision
• K10plus-PPN: 1736234331

Abstract

Malaria is a life-threatening disease, caused by Apicomplexan parasites of the Plasmodium genus. The Anopheles mosquito is necessary for the sexual replication of these parasites and for their transmission to vertebrate hosts, including humans. Imaging of the parasite within the insect vector has been attempted using multiple microscopy methods, most of which are hampered by the presence of the light scattering opaque cuticle of the mosquito. So far, most imaging of the Plasmodium mosquito stages depended on either sectioning or surgical dissection of important anatomical sites, such as the midgut and the salivary glands. Optical projection tomography (OPT) and light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) enable imaging fields of view in the centimeter scale whilst providing micrometer resolution. In this paper, we compare different optical clearing protocols and present reconstructions of the whole body of Plasmodium-infected, optically cleared Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes and their midguts. The 3D-reconstructions from OPT imaging show detailed features of the mosquito anatomy and enable overall localization of parasites in midguts. Additionally, LSFM imaging of mosquito midguts shows detailed distribution of oocysts in extracted midguts. This work was submitted as a pre-print to bioRxiv, available at https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/682054v2.