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    A novel approach to identifying patterns of human invasion-inhibitory antibodies guides the design of malaria vaccines incorporating polymorphic antigens

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    Drew, DR; Wilson, DW; Elliott, SR; Cross, N; Terheggen, U; Hodder, AN; Siba, PM; Chelimo, K; Dent, AE; Kazura, JW; ...
    Date
    2016-09-23
    Source Title
    BMC Medicine
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    BIOMED CENTRAL LTD
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Hodder, Anthony; Beeson, James; Mueller, Ivo; TERHEGGEN, ULRICH
    Affiliation
    Medical Biology (W.E.H.I.)
    Medicine and Radiology
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    Journal Article
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    Drew, D. R., Wilson, D. W., Elliott, S. R., Cross, N., Terheggen, U., Hodder, A. N., Siba, P. M., Chelimo, K., Dent, A. E., Kazura, J. W., Mueller, I. & Beeson, J. G. (2016). A novel approach to identifying patterns of human invasion-inhibitory antibodies guides the design of malaria vaccines incorporating polymorphic antigens. BMC MEDICINE, 14 (1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-016-0691-6.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/260311
    DOI
    10.1186/s12916-016-0691-6
    Abstract
    BACKGROUND: The polymorphic nature of many malaria vaccine candidates presents major challenges to achieving highly efficacious vaccines. Presently, there is very little knowledge on the prevalence and patterns of functional immune responses to polymorphic vaccine candidates in populations to guide vaccine design. A leading polymorphic vaccine candidate against blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum is apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA1), which is essential for erythrocyte invasion. The importance of AMA1 as a target of acquired human inhibitory antibodies, their allele specificity and prevalence in populations is unknown, but crucial for vaccine design. METHODS: P. falciparum lines expressing different AMA1 alleles were genetically engineered and used to quantify functional antibodies from two malaria-exposed populations of adults and children. The acquisition of AMA1 antibodies was also detected using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and competition ELISA (using different AMA1 alleles) from the same populations. RESULTS: We found that AMA1 was a major target of naturally acquired invasion-inhibitory antibodies that were highly prevalent in malaria-endemic populations and showed a high degree of allele specificity. Significantly, the prevalence of inhibitory antibodies to different alleles varied substantially within populations and between geographic locations. Inhibitory antibodies to three specific alleles were highly prevalent (FVO and W2mef in Papua New Guinea; FVO and XIE in Kenya), identifying them for potential vaccine inclusion. Measurement of antibodies by standard or competition ELISA was not strongly predictive of allele-specific inhibitory antibodies. The patterns of allele-specific functional antibody responses detected with our novel assays may indicate that acquired immunity is elicited towards serotypes that are prevalent in each geographic location. CONCLUSIONS: These findings provide new insights into the nature and acquisition of functional immunity to a polymorphic vaccine candidate and strategies to quantify functional immunity in populations to guide rational vaccine design.

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