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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Isolation of viable Plasmodium falciparum merozoites to define erythrocyte invasion events and advance vaccine and drug development |
Author: | Boyle, M. Wilson, D. Richards, J. Riglar, D. Tetteh, K. Conway, D. Ralph, S. Baum, J. Beeson, J. |
Citation: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA, 2010; 107(32):14378-14383 |
Publisher: | National Academy of Sciences |
Issue Date: | 2010 |
ISSN: | 0027-8424 1091-6490 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Michelle J. Boyle, Danny W. Wilson, Jack S. Richards, David T. Riglar, Kevin K. A. Tetteh, David J. Conway, Stuart A. Ralph, Jake Baum, and James G. Beeson |
Abstract: | During blood-stage infection by Plasmodium falciparum, merozoites invade RBCs. Currently there is limited knowledge of cellular and molecular invasion events, and no established assays are available to readily measure and quantify invasion-inhibitory antibodies or compounds for vaccine and drug studies. We report the isolation of viable merozoites that retain their invasive capacity, at high purity and yield, purified by filtration of highly synchronous populations of schizonts. We show that the half-life of merozoite invasive capacity after rupture is 5 min at 37 °C, and 15 min at room temperature. Studying the kinetics of invasion revealed that 80% of invasion events occur within 10 min of mixing merozoites and RBCs. Invasion efficiency was maximum at low merozoite-to-RBC ratios and occurred efficiently in the absence of serum and with high concentrations of dialyzed nonimmune serum. We developed and optimized an invasion assay by using purified merozoites that enabled invasion-inhibitory activity of antibodies and compounds to be measured separately from other mechanisms of growth inhibition; the assay was more sensitive for detecting inhibitory activity than established growth-inhibition assays. Furthermore, with the use of purified merozoites it was possible to capture and fix merozoites at different stages of invasion for visualization by immunofluorescence microscopy and EM. We thereby demonstrate that processing of the major merozoite antigen merozoite surface protein-1 occurs at the time of RBC invasion. These findings have important implications for defining invasion events and molecular interactions, understanding immune interactions, and identifying and evaluating inhibitors to advance vaccine and drug development. |
Keywords: | Host cell invasion; immunity; inhibitors; malaria; imaging |
Rights: | © 2010 National Academy of Sciences |
DOI: | 10.1073/pnas.1009198107 |
Grant ID: | ARC FT0990350 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT0990350 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1009198107 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 7 Molecular and Biomedical Science publications |
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