Insulin receptors and glucose uptake in the human parasite Schistosoma mansoni.

Very little is known about insulin signalling in schistosomes despite its potential importance in host-parasite molecular dialogue and parasite growth and development. The recent characterization of two insulin receptors (SmIR-1 and SmIR-2) in Schistosoma mansoni has led us to reconsider the question of the potential importance of insulin in host-schistosome interactions. In this work, we demonstrated that insulin could regulate glucose uptake in schistosomes and we investigated the implication of SmIR-1 and SmIR-2 in this process. The possibility that specific inhibitors of SmIR-1 and SmIR-2 tyrosine kinase activities could be developed to target schistosomes is discussed.

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