Purcell Lisa A, Wong Kurt A, Yanow Stephanie K, Lee Moses, Spithill Terry W, Rodriguez Ana
McGill University, Institute of Parasitology and Centre for Host-Parasite Interactions, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada.
Vaccine. 2008 Sep 8;26(38):4880-4. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2008.07.017. Epub 2008 Jul 29.
Vaccination with Plasmodium sporozoites attenuated by irradiation or genetic manipulation induces a protective immune response in rodent malaria models. Recently, vaccination with chemically attenuated P. berghei sporozoites (CAS) has also been shown to elicit sterile immunity in mice. Here we show that vaccination with CAS of P. yoelii also protects against homologous infection and that a P. berghei CAS vaccine cross protects against heterologous challenge with P. yoelii sporozoites. Vaccination with P. yoelii or P. berghei CAS induced parasite-specific antibodies and IFN-gamma-producing CD8(+) T cells at levels not significantly different from radiation-attenuated sporozoites. Our findings provide an initial characterization of the immune response generated by CAS vaccination and suggest that this attenuation process could be used in the production of an effective cross-protective liver stage vaccine for malaria.
用经辐射或基因操作减毒的疟原虫子孢子进行疫苗接种,可在啮齿动物疟疾模型中诱导产生保护性免疫反应。最近,用化学减毒的伯氏疟原虫子孢子(CAS)进行疫苗接种也已证明可在小鼠中引发无菌免疫。在此我们表明,用约氏疟原虫的CAS进行疫苗接种也能预防同源感染,并且一种伯氏疟原虫CAS疫苗可交叉预防约氏疟原虫子孢子的异源攻击。用约氏疟原虫或伯氏疟原虫CAS进行疫苗接种诱导产生的寄生虫特异性抗体和产生干扰素-γ的CD8(+) T细胞水平,与辐射减毒子孢子诱导产生的水平无显著差异。我们的研究结果初步描述了CAS疫苗接种所产生的免疫反应,并表明这种减毒过程可用于生产一种有效的疟疾交叉保护性肝期疫苗。