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Natural malaria infection elicits rare but potent neutralizing antibodies to the blood-stage antigen RH5.
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- Nanobodies against Plasmodium adhesins that block receptor engagement and malaria parasite invasion.The Biochemical journal · 2026Article
- Structure-guided design of a PfCyRPA-based vaccine against blood-stage malaria.EMBO molecular medicine · 2026Article
- Erythrocyte invasion in malaria: from molecular mechanisms to rational vaccines.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- Marked heterogeneity in malaria infection rate in a Malian longitudinal cohort.Nature communications · 2025Article
- PfRH5 vaccine; from the bench to the vial.NPJ vaccines · 2025Review
- A strain-transcending anti-AMA1 human monoclonal antibody neutralizes malaria parasites independent of direct RON2L receptor blockade.Cell reports. Medicine · 2025Article
- Targeting Bottlenecks in Malaria Transmission: Antibody-Epitope Descriptions Guide the Design of Next-Generation Biomedical Interventions.Immunological reviews · 2025Review
- Protective antibodies target cryptic epitope unmasked by cleavage of malaria sporozoite protein.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- RH5 antigenic landscape shapes vaccine and antibody development.Trends in pharmacological sciences · 2024Article
- Development of an improved blood-stage malaria vaccine targeting the essential RH5-CyRPA-RIPR invasion complex.Nature communications · 2024Article
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Abstract
Plasmodium falciparum reticulocyte-binding protein homolog 5 (RH5) is the most advanced blood-stage malaria vaccine candidate and is being evaluated for efficacy in endemic regions, emphasizing the need to study the underlying antibody response to RH5 during natural infection, which could augment or counteract responses to vaccination. Here, we found that RH5-reactive B cells were rare, and circulating immunoglobulin G (IgG) responses to RH5 were short-lived in malaria-exposed Malian individuals, despite repeated infections over multiple years. RH5-specific monoclonal antibodies isolated from eight malaria-exposed individuals mostly targeted non-neutralizing epitopes, in contrast to antibodies isolated from five RH5-vaccinated, malaria-naive UK individuals. However, MAD8-151 and MAD8-502, isolated from two malaria-exposed Malian individuals, were among the most potent neutralizers out of 186 antibodies from both cohorts and targeted the same epitopes as the most potent vaccine-induced antibodies. These results suggest that natural malaria infection may boost RH5-vaccine-induced responses and provide a clear strategy for the development of next-generation RH5 vaccines.
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