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The Journal of Immunology, 2001, 167: 4729-4737.
Copyright © 2001 by The American Association of Immunologists

Unique T Cell Effector Functions Elicited by Plasmodium falciparum Epitopes in Malaria-Exposed Africans Tested by Three T Cell Assays1

Katie L. Flanagan2,*, Edwin A. M. Lee*, Michael B. Gravenor*, William H. H. Reece*, Britta C. Urban*, Thomas Doherty{dagger}, Kalifa A. Bojang{dagger}, Margaret Pinder{dagger}, Adrian V. S. Hill* and Magdalena Plebanski*,{ddagger}

* Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom; {dagger} Malaria Laboratory, Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, The Gambia, West Africa; and {ddagger} Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Unit, Austin Research Institute, Austin and Repatriation Medical Center, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Natural immunity to malaria is characterized by low level CD4 T cell reactivity detected by either lymphoproliferation or IFN-{gamma} secretion. Here we show a doubling in the detection rate of responders to the carboxyl terminus of circumsporozoite protein (CS) of Plasmodium falciparum by employing three T cell assays simultaneously: rapid IFN-{gamma} secretion (ex vivo ELISPOT), IFN-{gamma} secretion after reactivation of memory T cells and expansion in vitro (cultured ELISPOT), and lymphoproliferation. Remarkably, for no individual peptide did a positive response for one T cell effector function correlate with any other. Thus these CS epitopes elicited unique T cell response patterns in malaria-exposed donors. Novel or important epitope responses may therefore be missed if only one T cell assay is employed. A borderline correlation was found between anti-CS Ab levels and proliferative responses, but no correlation was found with ex vivo or cultured IFN-{gamma} responses. This suggested that the proliferating population, but not the IFN-{gamma}-secreting cells, contained cells that provide help for Ab production. The data suggest that natural immunity to malaria is a complex function of T cell subgroups with different effector functions and has important implications for future studies of natural T cell immunity.




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