Variant surface antigens of Plasmodium falciparum and their roles in severe malaria

M Wahlgren, S Goel, RR Akhouri - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2017 - nature.com
Proliferation and differentiation inside erythrocytes are important steps in the life cycle of
Plasmodium spp. To achieve these, the parasites export polypeptides to the surface of …

Malaria prevention: from immunological concepts to effective vaccines and protective antibodies

IA Cockburn, RA Seder - Nature immunology, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Development of a malaria vaccine remains a critical priority to decrease clinical
disease and mortality and facilitate eradication. Accordingly, RTS, S, a protein-subunit …

Bacterial superglue enables easy development of efficient virus-like particle based vaccines

S Thrane, CM Janitzek, S Matondo, M Resende… - Journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Background Virus-like particles (VLPs) represent a significant advance in the
development of subunit vaccines, combining high safety and efficacy. Their particulate …

First-in-human, randomized, double-blind clinical trial of differentially adjuvanted PAMVAC, a vaccine candidate to prevent pregnancy-associated malaria

B Mordmüller, M Sulyok, D Egger-Adam… - Clinical Infectious …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Malaria in pregnancy has major impacts on mother and child health. To
complement existing interventions, such as intermittent preventive treatment and use of …

The VAR2CSA malaria protein efficiently retrieves circulating tumor cells in an EpCAM-independent manner

MØ Agerbæk, SR Bang-Christensen, MH Yang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Isolation of metastatic circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from cancer patients is of high value for
disease monitoring and molecular characterization. Despite the development of many new …

[HTML][HTML] Designing a VAR2CSA-based vaccine to prevent placental malaria

M Fried, PE Duffy - Vaccine, 2015 - Elsevier
Placental malaria (PM) due to Plasmodium falciparum is a major cause of maternal, fetal
and infant mortality, but the mechanisms of pathogenesis and protective immunity are …

Non-conventional expression systems for the production of vaccine proteins and immunotherapeutic molecules

I Legastelois, S Buffin, I Peubez, C Mignon… - Human vaccines & …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The increasing demand for recombinant vaccine antigens or immunotherapeutic molecules
calls into question the universality of current protein expression systems. Vaccine production …

Production, quality control, stability, and potency of cGMP-produced Plasmodium falciparum RH5.1 protein vaccine expressed in Drosophila S2 cells

J Jin, RD Tarrant, EJ Bolam, P Angell-Manning… - npj Vaccines, 2018 - nature.com
Plasmodium falciparum reticulocyte-binding protein homolog 5 (PfRH5) is a leading asexual
blood-stage vaccine candidate for malaria. In preparation for clinical trials, a full-length …

Progress and insights toward an effective placental malaria vaccine

B Gamain, A Chêne, NK Viebig… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In areas where Plasmodium falciparum transmission is endemic, clinical immunity against
malaria is progressively acquired during childhood and adults are usually protected against …

Cryo-EM reveals the architecture of placental malaria VAR2CSA and provides molecular insight into chondroitin sulfate binding

K Wang, R Dagil, T Lavstsen, SK Misra… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Placental malaria can have severe consequences for both mother and child and effective
vaccines are lacking. Parasite-infected red blood cells sequester in the placenta through …