Contrasts in antigen expression in the erythrocytic and exoerythrocytic stages of rodent malaria

Parasitology. 1989 Oct:99 Pt 2:165-70. doi: 10.1017/s0031182000058595.

Abstract

The time and site of expression of five antigens, recognized by monoclonal antibodies raised against blood-stage parasites, were studied in the exoerythrocytic stage of Plasmodium berghei using indirect immunofluorescent antibody staining. Two monoclonal antibodies (W 3.5, I 2.6), which stain the cytoplasm of infected erythrocytes, did not stain the cytoplasm of the infected liver cell but stained the parasite itself suggesting a difference in the antigenic architecture of the erythrocytic and exoerythrocytic parasites. Another antibody (17.6.1) revealed a further difference in the antigenic composition of the blood and liver-stage parasites being expressed almost exclusively in the former. Two others (C139 and 17.3.9) showed broadly similar patterns of expression in these two stages of the malarial life-cycle.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal
  • Antigens, Protozoan / biosynthesis*
  • Cell Line
  • Erythrocytes / parasitology*
  • Fluorescent Antibody Technique
  • Liver / parasitology*
  • Mice
  • Plasmodium berghei / immunology*

Substances

  • Antibodies, Monoclonal
  • Antigens, Protozoan