Liver stage P. falciparum antigens highly targeted by CD4+ T cells in malaria-exposed Ugandan children.

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Tác giả: Gonzalo R Acevedo, Grant Dorsey, Margaret E Feeney, Riana D Hunter, Mikias Ilala, Justine Levan, Meagan E Olive, Mary Prahl, Raja Rajalingam, John Rek, Sophie S Samiee

Ngôn ngữ: eng

Ký hiệu phân loại: 617.106 Nonsurgical therapy

Thông tin xuất bản: United States : PLoS pathogens , 2025

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Bộ sưu tập: NCBI

ID: 702708

T cell responses against liver stage Plasmodium help protect against reinfection, but the antigens and epitopes targeted by these T cells are largely unknown. This knowledge gap has impeded mechanistic studies to identify the effector functions most critical for protection. We performed a bioinformatic analysis of gene expression datasets to identify plasmodial genes that are highly and selectively expressed during liver stage infection and predict epitopes within them likely to bind MHC-II molecules prevalent in Uganda. We then tested their recognition by malaria-exposed Ugandan children. In over two-thirds of the children, we detected a peripheral blood CD4+ T cell response to one or more antigens. The most highly targeted antigen, LISP1, contained several epitopes, including one that was promiscuously presented and recognized by most participants. These novel liver stage P. falciparum epitopes should be explored as potential vaccine targets and will facilitate the development of tools to interrogate antimalarial immunity at the single-cell level and inform future vaccine development efforts.
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