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  • Title: Circumsporozoite protein of Plasmodium gallinaceum characterized by monoclonal antibodies.
    Author: Krettli AU, Rocha EM, Lopes JD, Carneiro CR, Kamboj KK, Cochrane AH, Nussenzweig RS.
    Journal: Parasite Immunol; 1988 Sep; 10(5):523-33. PubMed ID: 2461541.
    Abstract:
    Monoclonal antibodies (MoAb) were produced against both salivary gland sporozoites (SGS) and oocyst sporozoites (OS) of Plasmodium gallinaceum, an avian malaria parasite. By indirect immunofluorescence, all of the MoAbs reacted with both SGS and OS of P. gallinaceum and two of the MoAbs cross-reacted weakly with P. berghei sporozoites. None of the MoAbs reacted with sporozoites of six additional species of mammalian plasmodia. In Western blot analysis of extracts of either SGS or OS of P. gallinaceum, these MoAbs identified two polypeptides with molecular weights of approximately 76,000 and 64,000 D. The results of a MoAb inhibition of binding assay and a two-site one-antibody immunoradiometric assay indicate that the circumsporozoite protein of P. gallinaceum, like those of mammalian malaria parasites, contains a repetitive immunodominant epitope. Two of the anti-P. gallinaceum MoAbs were tested in a sporozoite neutralization assay and decreased, but did not abolish, the infectivity of sporozoites for chickens, indicating that the polypeptide of P. gallinaceum identified by immunoblot is probably the protective antigen.
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