An Analysis of the Binding Characteristics of a Panel of Recently Selected ICAM-1 Binding Plasmodium falciparum Patient Isolates.

Madkhali, Aymen M., Alkurbi, Mohammed O., Szestak, Tadge, Bengtsson, Anja, Patil, Pradeep R, Wu, Yang, Alharthi, Saeed, Jensen, Anja T R, Pleass, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7438-8296 and Craig, Alister ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0914-6164 (2014) 'An Analysis of the Binding Characteristics of a Panel of Recently Selected ICAM-1 Binding Plasmodium falciparum Patient Isolates.'. PLoS ONE, Vol 9, Issue 10, e111518.

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Abstract

The basis of severe malaria pathogenesis in part includes sequestration of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes (IE) from the peripheral circulation. This phenomenon is mediated by the interaction between several endothelial receptors and one of the main parasite-derived variant antigens (PfEMP1) expressed on the surface of the infected erythrocyte membrane. One of the commonly used host receptors is ICAM-1, and it has been suggested that ICAM-1 has a role in cerebral malaria pathology, although the evidence to support this is not conclusive. The current study examined the cytoadherence patterns of lab-adapted patient isolates after selecting on ICAM-1. We investigated the binding phenotypes using variant ICAM-1 proteins including ICAM-1Ref, ICAM-1Kilifi, ICAM-1S22/A, ICAM-1L42/A and ICAM-1L44/A using static assays. The study also examined ICAM-1 blocking by four anti-ICAM-1 monoclonal antibodies (mAb) under static conditions. We also characterised the binding phenotypes using Human Dermal Microvascular Endothelial Cells (HDMEC) under flow conditions. The results show that different isolates have variant-specific binding phenotypes under both static and flow conditions, extending our previous observations that this variation might be due to variable contact residues on ICAM-1 being used by different parasite PfEMP1 variants.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	QU Biochemistry > Cells and Genetics > QU 350 Cellular structures QU Biochemistry > Proteins. Amino Acids. Peptides > QU 58.5 DNA. QX Parasitology > Protozoa > QX 135 Plasmodia QX Parasitology > QX 20 Research (General) WC Communicable Diseases > Tropical and Parasitic Diseases > WC 750 Malaria
Faculty: Department:	Biological Sciences > Department of Tropical Disease Biology
Digital Object Identifer (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111518
Depositing User:	Mary Creegan
Date Deposited:	20 Nov 2014 15:05
Last Modified:	17 Jul 2019 14:14
URI:	https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/4550

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