Current approaches to malaria vaccines

PE Duffy - Current opinion in microbiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•First malaria vaccine RTS, S induces anti-sporozoite antibodies to protect
children.•Whole-sporozoite vaccines induce T cells and antibodies and confer field …

Antibodies against Plasmodium falciparum malaria at the molecular level

JP Julien, H Wardemann - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2019 - nature.com
Malaria is a vector-borne disease of global importance, with the vast majority of its life-
threatening cases caused by infection with Plasmodium falciparum parasites. Repeated …

[HTML][HTML] A potent anti-malarial human monoclonal antibody targets circumsporozoite protein minor repeats and neutralizes sporozoites in the liver

LT Wang, LS Pereira, Y Flores-Garcia, J O'Connor… - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
Discovering potent human monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) targeting the Plasmodium
falciparum circumsporozoite protein (PfCSP) on sporozoites (SPZ) and elucidating their …

Mapping functional humoral correlates of protection against malaria challenge following RTS, S/AS01 vaccination

TJ Suscovich, JK Fallon, J Das, AR Demas… - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
Vaccine development has the potential to be accelerated by coupling tools such as systems
immunology analyses and controlled human infection models to define the protective …

Malaria: influence of Anopheles mosquito saliva on Plasmodium infection

G Arora, YM Chuang, P Sinnis, G Dimopoulos… - Trends in …, 2023 - cell.com
Malaria is caused by Plasmodium protozoa that are transmitted by anopheline mosquitoes.
Plasmodium sporozoites are released with saliva when an infected female mosquito takes a …

[HTML][HTML] Five decades of clinical assessment of whole-sporozoite malaria vaccines

H Nunes-Cabaço, D Moita, M Prudêncio - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In 1967, pioneering work by Ruth Nussenzweig demonstrated for the first time that irradiated
sporozoites of the rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium berghei protected mice against a …

Sporozoite immunization: innovative translational science to support the fight against malaria

TL Richie, LWP Church, T Murshedkar… - Expert review of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Malaria, a devastating febrile illness caused by protozoan parasites, sickened
247,000,000 people in 2021 and killed 619,000, mostly children and pregnant women in …

[HTML][HTML] Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Vaccines and Vaccine Adjuvants

SR Bonam, L Rénia, G Tadepalli, J Bayry, HMS Kumar - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Malaria—a parasite vector-borne disease—is a global health problem, and Plasmodium
falciparum has proven to be the deadliest among Plasmodium spp., which causes malaria in …

Evolution of protective human antibodies against Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein repeat motifs

R Murugan, SW Scally, G Costa, G Mustafa, E Thai… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
The circumsporozoite protein of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum
(PfCSP) is the main target of antibodies that prevent the infection and disease, as shown in …

[HTML][HTML] Cytotoxicity of human antibodies targeting the circumsporozoite protein is amplified by 3D substrate and correlates with protection

MC Aguirre-Botero, LT Wang, P Formaglio… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Human monoclonal antibodies (hmAbs) targeting the Plasmodium falciparum
circumsporozoite protein (PfCSP) on the sporozoite surface are a promising tool for …