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  • Title: Humoral response to a carboxyl-terminal region of the merozoite surface protein-1 plays a predominant role in controlling blood-stage infection in rodent malaria.
    Author: Daly TM, Long CA.
    Journal: J Immunol; 1995 Jul 01; 155(1):236-43. PubMed ID: 7602100.
    Abstract:
    The developmental stages of malaria parasites that infect E are responsible for the morbidity and mortality associated with this disease. One of the leading candidates for a blood-stage vaccine against malaria is a surface protein of merozoites, the infectious stages for E, designated merozoite surface protein-1 (MSP-1). The rodent malarial parasite Plasmodium yoelii yoelii (Py) has provided a model system for the study of this Ag, and previous studies from our laboratory had demonstrated that the carboxyl-terminal, cysteine-rich region of MSP-1, when expressed in a native configuration, could immunize mice against a normally lethal challenge infection with Py. We have now prepared a new fusion construct with the glutathione-S-transferase gene of Schistosoma japonicum joined to the carboxyl-terminal 11 kDa of Py MSP-1. This includes only the two epidermal growth factor-like domains of the MSP-1 protein. When expressed in recombinant Escherichia coli, the fusion protein induces a strong protective response in BALB/c mice as judged by the resistance of immunized animals to a virulent challenge infection. Moreover, we demonstrate that this resistance can be transferred passively by immune serum or by purified Ig, establishing a significant role for humoral immunity in protection. No role for CD4+ or CD8+ T cells could be identified in the first 12 days after challenge infection in immune mice selectively depleted of these cells; however, after this time, parasitemias gradually increased in mice depleted of CD4+ T cells, suggesting an active host response is necessary to completely eliminate the infection.
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