Vaccination with a structure-based stabilized version of malarial antigen Pfs48/45 elicits ultra-potent transmission-blocking antibody responses

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Malaria transmission-blocking vaccines (TBVs) aim to elicit human antibodies that inhibit sporogonic development of Plasmodium falciparum in mosquitoes, thereby preventing onward transmission. Pfs48/45 is a leading clinical TBV candidate antigen and is recognized by the most potent transmission-blocking monoclonal antibody (mAb) yet described; still, clinical development of Pfs48/45 antigens has been hindered, largely by its poor biochemical characteristics. Here, we used structure-based computational approaches to design Pfs48/45 antigens stabilized in the conformation recognized by the most potently inhibitory mAb, achieving >25°C higher thermostability compared with the wild-type protein. Antibodies elicited in mice immunized with these engineered antigens displayed on liposome-based or protein nanoparticle-based vaccine platforms exhibited 1-2 orders of magnitude superior transmission-reducing activity, compared with immunogens bearing the wild-type antigen, driven by improved antibody quality. Our data provide the founding principles for using molecular stabilization solely from antibody structure-function information to drive improved immune responses against a parasitic vaccine target.

Errataetall:

CommentIn: Immunity. 2022 Sep 13;55(9):1588-1590. - PMID 36103857

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:55

Enthalten in:

Immunity - 55(2022), 9 vom: 13. Sept., Seite 1680-1692.e8

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

McLeod, Brandon [VerfasserIn]
Mabrouk, Moustafa T [VerfasserIn]
Miura, Kazutoyo [VerfasserIn]
Ravichandran, Rashmi [VerfasserIn]
Kephart, Sally [VerfasserIn]
Hailemariam, Sophia [VerfasserIn]
Pham, Thao P [VerfasserIn]
Semesi, Anthony [VerfasserIn]
Kucharska, Iga [VerfasserIn]
Kundu, Prasun [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Wei-Chiao [VerfasserIn]
Johnson, Max [VerfasserIn]
Blackstone, Alyssa [VerfasserIn]
Pettie, Deleah [VerfasserIn]
Murphy, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Kraft, John C [VerfasserIn]
Leaf, Elizabeth M [VerfasserIn]
Jiao, Yang [VerfasserIn]
van de Vegte-Bolmer, Marga [VerfasserIn]
van Gemert, Geert-Jan [VerfasserIn]
Ramjith, Jordache [VerfasserIn]
King, C Richter [VerfasserIn]
MacGill, Randall S [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Yimin [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Kelly K [VerfasserIn]
Jore, Matthijs M [VerfasserIn]
King, Neil P [VerfasserIn]
Lovell, Jonathan F [VerfasserIn]
Julien, Jean-Philippe [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antibodies
Antibodies, Blocking
Antibodies, Monoclonal
Antibodies, Protozoan
Antigens, Protozoan
Journal Article
Malaria
Malaria Vaccines
Membrane Glycoproteins
Protozoan Proteins
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Structure-based immunogen design

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Date Completed 16.09.2022

Date Revised 14.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: Immunity. 2022 Sep 13;55(9):1588-1590. - PMID 36103857

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.immuni.2022.07.015

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM344961591