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Transgenic mosquitoes resistant to malaria parasites are being developed to test the hypothesis that they may be used to control disease transmission. We have developed an effector portion of an antiparasite gene that can be used to test malaria resistance in transgenic mosquitoes. Mouse monoclonal antibodies that recognize the circumsporozoite protein of Plasmodium gallinaceum can block sporozoite invasion of Aedes aegypti salivary glands. An anti-circumsporozoite monoclonal antibody, N2H6D5, whose corresponding heavy- and light-chain gene variable regions were engineered as a single-chain antibody construct, binds to P. gallinaceum sporozoites and prevents infection of Ae. aegypti salivary glands when expressed from a Sindbis virus. Mean intensities of sporozoite infections of salivary glands in mosquitoes expressing N2scFv were reduced as much as 99.9% when compared to controls.

Original publication

DOI

10.4269/ajtmh.2000.62.427

Type

Journal article

Journal

Am J Trop Med Hyg

Publication Date

04/2000

Volume

62

Pages

427 - 433

Keywords

Aedes, Animals, Antibodies, Monoclonal, Antibodies, Protozoan, Chickens, DNA, Recombinant, Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel, Female, Genetic Vectors, Hybridomas, Immunoblotting, Insect Vectors, Mice, Plasmodium gallinaceum, Salivary Glands, Sindbis Virus