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The serine repeat antigen (SERA) is a vaccine candidate antigen ofPlasmodium falciparum . Immunization of mice withEscherichia coli -produced recombinant protein of the SERA N-terminal domain (SE47′) induced an antiserum that was inhibitory to parasite growth in vitro. Affinity-purified mouse antibodies specific to the recombinant protein inhibited parasite growth between the schizont and ring stages but not between the ring and schizont stages. When Percoll-purified schizonts were cultured with the affinity-purified SE47′-specific antibodies, schizonts and merozoites were agglutinated. Indirect-immunofluorescence assays with unfixed parasite cells showed that SE47′-specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) bound to SERA molecules on rupturing schizonts and merozoites but the IgG did not react with the schizont-infected erythrocytes (RBC). Furthermore, double-fluorescence staining against SE47′-specific IgG and anti-human RBC membrane IgG showed that the RBC membrane disappeared from SE47′-specific-IgG-bound schizonts after cultivation. These observations suggest that the SE47′-specific antibodies inhibit parasite growth by cross-linking SERA molecules that are associated with merozoites in rupturing schizonts with partly broken RBC and parasitophorous vacuole membranes, blocking merozoite release.

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Antibodies Reactive with the N-Terminal Domain of <i>Plasmodium falciparum</i> Serine Repeat Antigen Inhibit Cell Proliferation by Agglutinating Merozoites and Schizonts

Antibodies Reactive with the N-Terminal Domain of Plasmodium falciparum Serine Repeat Antigen Inhibit Cell Proliferation by Agglutinating Merozoites and Schizonts