Next Generation Sequencing to Detect Variation in the Plasmodium falciparum Circumsporozoite Protein

Kavita Gandhi Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Malaria Research and Training Center, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

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Ando B. Guindo Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Malaria Research and Training Center, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

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Ogobara K. Doumbo Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Malaria Research and Training Center, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

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The malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS01, based on immunogenic regions of the Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein (CSP), has partial efficacy against clinical malaria in African children. Understanding how sequence diversity in CSP T- and B-cell epitopes relates to naturally acquired and vaccine-induced immunity may be useful in efforts to improve the efficacy of CSP-based vaccines. However, limitations in sequencing technology have precluded thorough evaluation of diversity in the immunogenic regions of this protein. In this study, 454, a next generation sequencing technology, was evaluated as a method for assessing diversity in these regions. Portions of the circumsporozoite gene (cs) were sequenced both by 454 and Sanger sequencing from samples collected in a study in Bandiagara, Mali. 454 detected more single nucleotide polymorphisms and haplotypes in the T-cell epitopes than Sanger sequencing, and it was better able to resolve genetic diversity in samples with multiple infections; however, it failed to generate sequence for the B-cell epitopes.

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*Address correspondence to Christopher V. Plowe, Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 685 West Baltimore Street, HSF1-480, Baltimore, MD 21201. E-mail: cplowe@medicine.umaryland.edu

Financial support: This research was supported by Contract N01AI85346 and Cooperative Agreement U19AI065683 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Grant D43TW001589 from the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, and Contract W81XWH-06-1-0427 from the US Department of Defense and the US Agency for International Development. S.T.-H. is supported by the University of Maryland Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Program (National Institutes of Health Grant K12RR023250). C.V.P. is supported by a Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Authors' addresses: Kavita Gandhi, Shannon Takala-Harrison, and Christopher V. Plowe, Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, E-mails: Kavita.Gandhi@som.umaryland.edu, stakala@medicine.umaryland.edu, and cplowe@medicine.umaryland.edu. Mahamadou A. Thera, Drissa Coulibaly, Karim Traoré, Ando B. Guindo, and Ogobara K. Doumbo, Malaria Research and Training Center, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali. E-mails: mthera@icermali.org, coulibalyd@icermali.org, karim@icermali.org, ando@icermali.org, and okd@icermali.org.

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