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Impaired cytoadherence of Plasmodium falciparum -infected erythrocytes containing sickle hemoglobin

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Cholera, Rushina, Brittain, Nathaniel J., Gillrie, Mark R., Lopera-Mesa, Tatiana M., Diakité, Séidina A. S., Arie, Takayuki, Krause, Michael A., Guindo, Aldiouma +7 more·2008·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Abstract

Sickle trait, the heterozygous state of normal hemoglobin A (HbA) and sickle hemoglobin S (HbS), confers protection against malaria in Africa. AS children infected with Plasmodium falciparum are less likely than AA children to suffer the symptoms or severe manifestations of malaria, and they often carry lower parasite densities than AA children. The mechanisms by which sickle trait might confer such malaria protection remain unclear. We have compared the cytoadherence properties of parasitized AS and AA erythrocytes, because it is by these properties that parasitized erythrocytes can sequester in postcapillary microvessels of critical tissues such as the brain and cause the life-threatening complications of malaria. Our results show that the binding of parasitized AS erythrocytes to microvascular endothelial cells and blood monocytes is significantly reduced relative to the binding of parasitized AA erythrocytes. Reduced binding correlates with the altered display of P. falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein-1 (PfEMP-1), the parasite's major cytoadherence ligand and virulence factor on the erythrocyte surface. These findings identify a mechanism of protection for HbS that has features in common with that of hemoglobin C (HbC). Coinherited hemoglobin polymorphisms and naturally acquired antibodies to PfEMP-1 may influence the degree of malaria protection in AS children by further weakening cytoadherence interactions.

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  • In sickle cell hemoglobin, the balance between damaging prooxidative molecules such as free heme or iron and antioxidative factors such as carbon monoxide and bilirubin is shifted towards cytoprotection.

    “As a consequence, the balance between damaging prooxidative molecules such as free heme or iron and antioxidative factors such as carbon monoxide (CO) and bilirubin is shifted towards cytoprotection (Cholera et al., 2008;Ferreira et al., 2011;Gong et al., 2013;Jeney et al., 2014).”

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Cholera, R., Brittain, N. J., Gillrie, M. R., Lopera-Mesa, T. M., Diakité, S. A. S., Arie, T., Krause, M. A., Guindo, A., Tubman, A., Fujioka, H., Diallo, D. A., Doumbo, O. K., Ho, M., Wellems, T. E., & Fairhurst, R. M.
Affiliations
  • National Institutes of Health (US)
  • University of Calgary (CA)
  • Malaria Research and Training Center, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Odontostomatology, University of Bamako, Bamako, BP 1805, Mali; and
  • University of Bamako (ML)
  • Case Western Reserve University (US)
Corresponding author
  • Wellems, Thomas E.
  • Fairhurst, Rick M.
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published
2008-01-22
Volume
105
Issue
3
Pages
991-996
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
OpenAlex
W2111913495
Cited by
249
References
45
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FWCI
19.46
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institutes of Health
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Malaria Research and Control
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Genetics › Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Hematology › Blood groups and transfusion
Keywords
sickle cell trait, hemoglobin S, Plasmodium falciparum, cytoadherence, malaria prevention, PfEMP1, erythrocyte membrane protein 1, hemoglobin C, endothelial cell adhesion, monocyte adhesion, naturally acquired antibodies, hemoglobin polymorphism, children
MeSH terms
Animals, Cell Adhesion, Cells, Cultured, Erythrocytes, Hemoglobin SC Disease, Hemoglobin, Sickle, Humans, Microcirculation, Monocytes, Plasmodium falciparum, Sickle Cell Trait, Protozoan Proteins, Endothelial Cells, Microscopy, Electron, Transmission

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