| Literature DB >> 17525854 |
Ayman Khattab1, Yu-Shan Chia, Jürgen May, Jean-Yves Le Hesran, Philippe Deloron, Mo-Quen Klinkert.
Abstract
Different domains of a novel full-length var gene (termed 732var) isolated from a placenta of a malaria-infected woman were expressed in Escherichia coli as recombinant proteins and analysed biochemically and immunologically. Two of these, the Duffy binding-like (DBL)-3gamma domain and the cysteine-rich interdomain region (CIDR)-1alpha were able to bind chondroitin sulfate A and CD36, respectively. The DBL-3gamma domain was investigated in a previous study and confirmed here to exhibit anti-disease characteristics related to pregnancy-associated malaria. Mothers with high anti-DBL-3gamma antibody levels were protected from placental infection. The novel finding in this study is that babies born to mothers carrying anti-CIDR-1alpha antibodies had a delayed time to the first infection.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17525854 DOI: 10.1007/s00436-007-0548-1
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Parasitol Res ISSN: 0932-0113 Impact factor: 2.289