Expression and serologic activity of a soluble recombinant Plasmodium vivax Duffy binding protein.
AUTOR(ES)
Fraser, T
RESUMO
Plasmodium vivax Duffy binding protein (DBP) is a conserved functionally important protein. P. vivax DBP is an asexual blood-stage malaria vaccine candidate because adhesion of P. vivax DBP to its erythrocyte receptor is essential for the parasite to continue development in human blood. We developed a soluble recombinant protein of P. vivax DBP (rDBP) and examined serologic activity to it in residents of a region of high endemicity. This soluble rDBP product contained the cysteine-rich ligand domain and most of the contiguous proline-rich hydrophilic region. rDBP was expressed as a glutathione S-transferase (GST) fusion protein and was isolated from GST by thrombin treatment of the purified fusion protein bound on glutathione agarose beads. P. vivax rDBP was immunogenic in rabbits and induced antibodies that reacted with P. vivax and Plasmodium knowlesi merozoites. Human sera from adult residents of a region of Papua New Guinea where malaria is highly endemic or P. vivax-infected North American residents reacted with rDBP in an immunoblot and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The reactivity to reduced, denatured P. vivax rDBP and the cross-reactivity with P. knowlesi indicated the presence of immunogenic conserved linear B-cell epitopes. A more extensive serologic survey of Papua New Guinea residents showed that antibody response to P. vivax DBP is common and increases with age, suggesting a possible boosting of the antibody response in some by repeated exposure to P. vivax. A positive humoral response to P. vivax DBP correlated with a significantly higher response to P. vivax MSP-1(19). The natural immunogenicity of this DBP should strengthen its usefulness as a vaccine.
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