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Background  The cattle pathogen,  Anaplasma marginale , undergoes a developmental cycle in ticks that begins in gut cells. Transmission to cattle occurs from salivary glands during a second tick feeding. At each site of development two forms of  A. marginale  (reticulated and dense) occur within a parasitophorous vacuole in the host cell cytoplasm. However, the role of tick genes in pathogen development is unknown. Four genes, found in previous studies to be differentially expressed in  Dermacentor variabilis  ticks in response to infection with  A. marginale , were silenced by RNA interference (RNAi) to determine the effect of silencing on the  A. marginale  developmental cycle. These four genes encoded for putative glutathione S-transferase (GST), salivary selenoprotein M (SelM), H+ transporting lysosomal vacuolar proton pump (vATPase) and subolesin.    Results  The impact of gene knockdown on  A. marginale  tick infections, both after acquiring infection and after a second transmission feeding, was determined and studied by light microscopy. Silencing of these genes had a different impact on  A. marginale  development in different tick tissues by affecting infection levels, the densities of colonies containing reticulated or dense forms and tissue morphology. Salivary gland infections were not seen in any of the gene-silenced ticks, raising the question of whether these ticks were able to transmit the pathogen.    Conclusion  The results of this RNAi and light microscopic analyses of tick tissues infected with  A. marginale  after the silencing of genes functionally important for pathogen development suggest a role for these molecules during pathogen life cycle in ticks.

Silencing of genes involved in Anaplasma marginale-tick interactions affects the pathogen developmental cycle in Dermacentor variabilis