title: Involvement of membrane glycophorins in human erythrocytes invaded by Plasmodium falciparum.
abstract: The extent of participation and changes of glycophorins (GPs) and membrane proteins in the merozite-human erythrocyte interaction during the invasion of Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) were studied by immunoblotting techniques. Polyclonal antisera to alpha GP and to its C-terminal fragment (residues 82-131) as well as M and N specific monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) were used. We examined the GPs in the parasite-free saponin lysates, saponin pellets and the culture supernatants of the infected erythrocytes in comparison with the mock cultured normal RBC. Excepting the usual GP patterns, a GP with molecular weight of 77.5 K (band 1') existed in the parasitized erythrocytes and their saponin pellets and several GP bands ranging from 28K to 54K were present in saponin pellets when probed with anti-GP and anti-peptide C sera. This reflected the disintegration of erythrocyte membrane alpha GP through the invasion of Pf. The alpha 2 GP in the saponin pellets of the parasitized MM erythrocytes surprisingly cross-reacted with the N MoAb, implying that it may have come from the intermingling of the host alpha GP in MM erythrocytes with the parasite alpha GP reacting to N MoAb. The saponin pellets of parasitized erythrocytes preserved a considerable amount of ankyrin, band 3, protein 4.1 and 4.2, while the GP bands were densely mixed with the parasite proteins and the disintegrated products of membrane proteins. Four erythrocyte-binding antigens (EBA) of 143 K, 135 K, 115 K and 107 K recognized by malaria hyperimmune serum were detected in the culture supernatants of Pf, some of them appeared in the infected erythrocytes, their saponin lysates and pellets.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Hunan Medical University, Changsha.
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Y Q
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: E F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Roth
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Nagel
authors.forename: O O
authors.initials: OO
authors.lastname: Blumenfeld
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001457:Anion Exchange Protein 1, Erythrocyte / Q000378:metabolism; D000953:Antigens, Protozoan; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D004910:Erythrocyte Membrane / Q000378:metabolism; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000469:parasitology*; D006021:Glycophorins / Q000378:metabolism*; D006790:Host-Parasite Interactions; D006801:Humans; D016778:Malaria, Falciparum / Q000097:blood / Q000469:parasitology; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum / Q000502:physiology*; D015800:Protozoan Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface
chemical_list: D001457:Anion Exchange Protein 1, Erythrocyte; D000953:Antigens, Protozoan; D002352:Carrier Proteins; C066001:Duffy antigen binding protein, Plasmodium; D006021:Glycophorins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D015800:Protozoan Proteins; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface