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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 51(6), 1994, pp. 730-740
Copyright © 1994 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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High Prevalence of Natural Antibodies against Plasmodium falciparum 83-Kilodalton Apical Membrane Antigen (PF83/AMA-1) as Detected by Capture-Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Using Full-Length Baculovirus Recombinant PF83/AMA-1

Alan W. Thomas, Jean-Francois Trape, Christophe Rogier, Aldina Goncalves, Virgilio E. Rosario AND David L. Narum
Laboratory for Parasitology, Biomedical Primate Research Center-TNO, Rijswijk, The Netherlands; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland; Laboratoire de Paludologie, ORSTOM, Dakar, Senegal; Service d'Epidemiologie, Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal; Department S., Publica/Instituta Higiene Medicina Tropical/Centro de Malaria e Outras Doencas Tropicais/Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; Centro de Malaria e Outras Doencas Tropicais/Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

The 83-kilodalton (kD) apical membrane antigen of Plasmodium falciparum (PF83/AMA-1) is a potential asexual blood stage vaccine component. This antigen has been expressed as a full-length, nonfusion, recombinant baculovirus protein (PF83-7G8-1) using the authentic predicted signal peptide for appropriate postsynthetic routing. When purified by a novel high-performance, ion exchange chromatography (HPIEC) method, PF83-7G8-1 induced polyclonal antibodies in rats that immunoprecipitated both 83- and 66-kD forms of PF83/AMA-1 from 35S-methionine metabolically labeled parasite extracts. Using HPIEC-purified PF83-7G8-1 in combinantion with a rat monoclonal antibody against the highly conserved carboxy-terminal (CT) region of PF83/AMA-1, we developed a CT-capture-enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to measure naturally acquired responses against the entire PF83/AMA-1 molecule. Analysis of populations from villages in Guinea-Bissau and in an area of high malarial transmission in Senegal demonstrated a very high prevalence (94–100%) of naturally acquired serum IgG responses to PF83/AMA-1. Analysis of these natural responses showed that PF83/AMA-1 may be a well-recognized asexual parasite antigen. A statistically significant age-related change in antibody levels to PF83/AMA-1 was observed in Guinea-Bissau. No such correlation was observed in the Senegalese population, although an age-related antibody response was seen for total parasite antigen. No significant correlation was observed between PF83/AMA-1 responses and the parameters of parasite load and malaria-related fever.




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