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A PfRH5-Based Vaccine Is Efficacious against Heterologous Strain Blood-Stage Plasmodium falciparum Infection in Aotus Monkeys

2015; Cell Press; Volume: 17; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.chom.2014.11.017

1934-6069

Alexander D. Douglas, G. Christian Baldeviano, Carmen M. Lucas, Luis A. Lugo‐Roman, Cécile Crosnier, S. Josefin Bartholdson, Ababacar Diouf, Kazutoyo Miura, Lynn Lambert, Julio A. Ventocilla, Karina P. Leiva, Kathryn H. Milne, Joseph J. Illingworth, Alexandra J. Spencer, Kathryn A. Hjerrild, Daniel G. W. Alanine, Alison Turner, Jeromy T. Moorhead, Kimberly A. Edgel, Yimin Wu, Carole A. Long, Gavin J. Wright, Andrés G. Lescano, Simon J. Draper,

HIV Research and Treatment

Antigenic diversity has posed a critical barrier to vaccine development against the pathogenic blood-stage infection of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. To date, only strain-specific protection has been reported by trials of such vaccines in nonhuman primates. We recently showed that P. falciparum reticulocyte binding protein homolog 5 (PfRH5), a merozoite adhesin required for erythrocyte invasion, is highly susceptible to vaccine-inducible strain-transcending parasite-neutralizing antibody. In vivo efficacy of PfRH5-based vaccines has not previously been evaluated. Here, we demonstrate that PfRH5-based vaccines can protect Aotus monkeys against a virulent vaccine-heterologous P. falciparum challenge and show that such protection can be achieved by a human-compatible vaccine formulation. Protection was associated with anti-PfRH5 antibody concentration and in vitro parasite-neutralizing activity, supporting the use of this in vitro assay to predict the in vivo efficacy of future vaccine candidates. These data suggest that PfRH5-based vaccines have potential to achieve strain-transcending efficacy in humans.