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Vaccine-Induced Carbohydrate-Specific Memory B Cells Reactivate During Rodent Malaria Infection.


ABSTRACT: A long-standing challenge in malaria is the limited understanding of B cell immunity, previously hampered by lack of tools to phenotype rare antigen-specific cells. Our aim was to develop a method for identifying carbohydrate-specific B cells within lymphocyte populations and to determine whether a candidate vaccine generated functional memory B cells (MBCs) that reactivated upon challenge with Plasmodium (pRBCs). To this end, a new flow cytometric probe was validated and used to determine the kinetics of B cell activation against the candidate vaccine glycosylphosphatidylinositol conjugated to Keyhole Limpet Haemocyanin (GPI-KLH). Additionally, immunized C57BL/6 mice were rested (10 weeks) and challenged with pRBCs or GPI-KLH to assess memory B cell recall against foreign antigen. We found that GPI-specific B cells were detectable in GPI-KLH vaccinated mice, but not in Plasmodium-infected mice. Additionally, in previously vaccinated mice GPI-specific IgG1 MBCs were reactivated against both pRBCs and synthetic GPI-KLH, which resulted in increased serum levels of anti-GPI IgG in both challenge approaches. Collectively our findings contribute to the understanding of B cell immunity in malaria and have important clinical implications for inclusion of carbohydrate conjugates in malaria vaccines.

SUBMITTER: Joseph H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6696980 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Vaccine-Induced Carbohydrate-Specific Memory B Cells Reactivate During Rodent Malaria Infection.

Joseph Hayley H   Tan Qiao Ye QY   Mazhari Ramin R   Eriksson Emily M EM   Schofield Louis L  

Frontiers in immunology 20190809


A long-standing challenge in malaria is the limited understanding of B cell immunity, previously hampered by lack of tools to phenotype rare antigen-specific cells. Our aim was to develop a method for identifying carbohydrate-specific B cells within lymphocyte populations and to determine whether a candidate vaccine generated functional memory B cells (MBCs) that reactivated upon challenge with <i>Plasmodium</i> (pRBCs). To this end, a new flow cytometric probe was validated and used to determin  ...[more]

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