Geographically restricted heterogeneity of the Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein: relevance for vaccine development

DL Doolan, AJ Saul, MF Good - Infection and immunity, 1992 - Am Soc Microbiol
The design of a subunit vaccine against the malaria parasite relies on the epitopes
recognized by T cells being identified and polymorphisms therein being defined. Here we …

Human T-cell recognition of the circumsporozoite protein of Plasmodium falciparum: immunodominant T-cell domains map to the polymorphic regions of the molecule.

MF Good, D Pombo, IA Quakyi… - Proceedings of the …, 1988 - National Acad Sciences
The definition of human T-cell antigenic sites is important for subunit vaccine development of
a peptide immunogen if the goal is to allow antibody boosting during infection or to stimulate …

Parasite polymorphism present within minimal T cell epitopes of Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein.

MF Good, D Pombo, WL Maloy… - … (Baltimore, Md.: 1950 …, 1988 - journals.aai.org
Identification of T cell antigenic sites is critical for antisporozoite malarial vaccine design.
Here, we present data that define two minimal functional T cell sites present in an …

Wild isolates of Plasmodium falciparum show extensive polymorphism in T cell epitopes of the circumsporozoite protein

MJ Lockyer, K Marsh, CI Newbold - Molecular and biochemical …, 1989 - Elsevier
Variation in the immunodominant T cell epitopes Th2R and Th3R of the Plasmodium
falciparum circumsporozoite protein has been analysed from Gambian clinical isolates using …

Antigenic diversity in the circumsporozoite protein of Plasmodium falciparum abrogates cytotoxic-T-cell recognition

V Udhayakumar, YP Shi, S Kumar, DL Jue… - Infection and …, 1994 - Am Soc Microbiol
Genetic analysis of field isolates of Plasmodium falciparum has shown selective
accumulation of point mutations within the immunologically sensitive sites of the …

Diversity in the immunodominant determinants of the circumsporozoite protein of Plasmodium falciparum parasites from malaria-endemic regions of Papua New …

YP Shi, MP Alpers, MM Povoa, AA Lal - The American journal of …, 1992 - europepmc.org
To determine the nature and extent of variation in the T cell sites of the Plasmodium
falciparum circumsporozoite (CS) protein, a candidate antigen in the development of a …

Polymorphism in the circumsporozoite protein of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax

SH Qari, IF Goldman, MM Povoa, S di Santi… - Molecular and …, 1992 - Elsevier
The circumsporozoite (CS) protein that covers the surface of infectious sporozoites is a
candidate antigen in malaria vaccine development. To determine the extent of B-and T …

Natural amino acid polymorphisms of the circumsporozoite protein of Plasmodium falciparum abrogate specific human CD4+ T cell responsiveness

Y Zevering, C Khamboonruang… - European journal of …, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
Sequence polymorphism has been reported for virtually all malaria antigens and, in the case
of the circumsporozoite (CS) protein, this variation is in the form of point mutations …

Human T cells recognize polymorphic and non‐polymorphic regions of the Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein.

M Guttinger, P Caspers, B Takacs, A Trzeciak… - The EMBO …, 1988 - embopress.org
In order to characterize T cell epitopes in the Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite (CS)
protein sequence, we isolated T cell clones, from non‐immune donors, which reacted with …

[HTML][HTML] Variation in the Circumsporozoite Protein of Plasmodium falciparum: Vaccine Development Implications

K Gandhi, MA Thera, D Coulibaly, K Traore… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The malaria vaccine candidate RTS, S/AS01 is based on immunogenic regions of
Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein (CSP) from the 3D7 reference strain and …