VAR2CSA Domain-Specific Analysis of Naturally Acquired Functional Antibodies to Plasmodium falciparum Placental Malaria

JYA Doritchamou, R Herrera, JA Aebig… - The Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
VAR2CSA comprises an intracytoplasmic region, a … a similar pattern of activity as naturally
acquired antibody needs to … to epitopes from different variants of VAR2CSA. Investigations are …

Increased risk of low birth weight in women with placental malaria associated with P. falciparum VAR2CSA clade

JC Patel, NJ Hathaway, CM Parobek, KL Thwai… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
… between study sites likely represent different sample types and sample storage. Among the
available … The NTS-DBL2X region of VAR2CSA induces cross-reactive antibodies that inhibit …

Structural basis for placental malaria mediated by Plasmodium falciparum VAR2CSA

R Ma, T Lian, R Huang, JP Renn, JD Petersen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
… sera showed antibody binding to peptides P23–P25 and one sample also … of antibodies
capable of binding to the VAR2CSA variants. … the region NTS-DBL2X can bind to antibodies from …

Functional antibodies against placental malaria parasites are variant dependent and differ by geographic region

J Doritchamou, A Teo, R Morrison, G Arora… - Infection and …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
… of the pattern seen for BIA against the parasite variants (see … might be related to the differential
display of antigens on the IE … to identify VAR2CSA epitopes shared by multiple variants of …

Allelic variants of full-length VAR2CSA, the placental malaria vaccine candidate, differ in antigenicity and receptor binding affinity

JP Renn, JYA Doritchamou, BCN Tentokam… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
… naturally acquired antibodies; these patterns differ between … that these atypical migration
patterns could arise from incorrect … the differential binding affinity of various alleles of VAR2CSA

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
antibodies with specificity for the PAMVAC region of genetic variants representing different
clades of VAR2CSA … vaccinated volunteers with a pattern that represented genetic distance (ie…

[HTML][HTML] Progress and insights toward an effective placental malaria vaccine

B Gamain, A Chêne, NK Viebig… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
region of VAR2CSA are able to induce cross-inhibitory … the antibody cross-reactivity against
different VAR2CSA variants … or rational structure-based designs. Finally, the recently hyped …

Progress and new horizons toward a VAR2CSA-based placental malaria vaccine

JYA Doritchamou, J Suurbaar… - Expert Review of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Areas covered: This review analyzes the progress made thus far in … that antibodies raised
against two (FCR3 and 3D7) VAR2CSA variants of NTS-DBL2X exhibited different patterns of …

The role of PfEMP1 as targets of naturally acquired immunity to childhood malaria: prospects for a vaccine

PC Bull, AI Abdi - Parasitology, 2016 - cambridge.org
var2CSA can be inhibited by incubation with DBL2X, DBL3X or DBL5ε domains. The Nterminal
NTS-DBL2X region of … ICAM-1 and is a target of cross-reactive, adhesion-inhibitory anti- …

Pre-clinical and clinical development of the first placental malaria vaccine

C Pehrson, A Salanti, TG Theander… - Expert Review of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
… discussed variation of the var2csa gene. The variable … suggested that antibodies raised
against VAR2CSA are not cross… We suggest to base sample size calculation on a clinical primary