Correction: The Secreted Triose Phosphate Isomerase of Brugia malayi Is Required to Sustain Microfilaria Production In Vivo

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  • James P. Hewitson
  • Dominik Rückerl
  • Yvonne Harcus
  • Janice Murray
  • Lauren M. Webb
  • Simon A. Babayan
  • Judith E. Allen
  • Agnes Kurniawan
  • Rick M. Maizels
چکیده

Human lymphatic filariasis is a major tropical disease transmitted through mosquito vectors which take up microfilarial larvae from the blood of infected subjects. Microfilariae are produced by long-lived adult parasites, which also release a suite of excretory-secretory products that have recently been subject to in-depth proteomic analysis. Surprisingly, the most abundant secreted protein of adult Brugia malayi is triose phosphate isomerase (TPI), a glycolytic enzyme usually associated with the cytosol. We now show that while TPI is a prominent target of the antibody response to infection, there is little antibody-mediated inhibition of catalytic activity by polyclonal sera. We generated a panel of twenty-three anti-TPI monoclonal antibodies and found only two were able to block TPI enzymatic activity. Immunisation of jirds with B. malayi TPI, or mice with the homologous protein from the rodent filaria Litomosoides sigmodontis, failed to induce neutralising antibodies or protective immunity. In contrast, passive transfer of neutralising monoclonal antibody to mice prior to implantation with adult B. malayi resulted in 60–70% reductions in microfilarial levels in vivo and both oocyte and microfilarial production by individual adult females. The loss of fecundity was accompanied by reduced IFNc expression by CD4 T cells and a higher proportion of macrophages at the site of infection. Thus, enzymatically active TPI plays an important role in the transmission cycle of B. malayi filarial parasites and is identified as a potential target for immunological and pharmacological intervention against filarial infections. Citation: Hewitson JP, Rückerl D, Harcus Y, Murray J, Webb LM, et al. (2014) The Secreted Triose Phosphate Isomerase of Brugia malayi Is Required to Sustain Microfilaria Production In Vivo. PLoS Pathog 10(2): e1003930. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003930 Editor: Edward Mitre, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, United States of America Received July 29, 2013; Accepted January 2, 2014; Published February 27, 2014 Copyright: 2014 Hewitson et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: JPH, YH, JM and RMM are funded by the Wellcome Trust (Ref 090281), LM by Medical Research Council UK studentship, SB by the EU FP7 grant ‘‘EPIAF’’ (no 242131), DR and JEA by the Medical Research Council UK (G0600818). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. * E-mail: [email protected] ¤ Current address: Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

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دوره 10  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2014