title: Human immune responses to the highly repetitive Plasmodium falciparum antigen Pf332.
abstract: The B and T cell responses to EB200, a repetitive part of the Plasmodium falciparum antigen Pf332, were examined in malaria-exposed Senegalese adults. Most donors had high levels of antibodies to recombinant EB200 and 17 overlapping peptides spanning EB200. Taking proliferation and/or cytokine (interferon-gamma and interleukin-4) production as a measure of T cell activation, eight of the EB200-derived peptides induced responses in > 40% of the donors tested. There was no general association between the different types of T cell responses measured, emphasizing the importance of including multiple parameters when analyzing T cell responses and suggesting that EB200 induces functionally distinct T cell responses. The most efficient peptide for induction of proliferative responses was one previously shown to induce T cell responses in five different H-2 congenic mouse strains primed with EB200, suggesting that this is a universal T cell epitope. The presence of multiple B and T cell epitopes in EB200, widely recognized by humans, is important since EB200 has been shown to elicit protective antibody responses in monkeys and may be considered for inclusion in malaria subunit vaccines.
authors.affiliation: Department of Immunology, Stockholm University, Sweden.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kulane
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Siddique
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Sarthou
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tall
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dieye
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Perlmann
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Perlmann
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Troye-Blomberg
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ahlborg
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000913:Antibodies, Protozoan / Q000097:blood; D000953:Antigens, Protozoan / Q000276:immunology*; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D006801:Humans; D007371:Interferon-gamma / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism; D015847:Interleukin-4 / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism; D007963:Leukocytes, Mononuclear / Q000378:metabolism; D016778:Malaria, Falciparum / Q000276:immunology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum / Q000276:immunology*; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000276:immunology; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012588:Scintillation Counting; D012675:Senegal
chemical_list: D000913:Antibodies, Protozoan; D000953:Antigens, Protozoan; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D015847:Interleukin-4; D007371:Interferon-gamma