Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Afucosylated Plasmodium falciparum-specific IgG is induced by infection but not by subunit vaccination

  • Mads Delbo Larsen,
  • Mary Lopez-Perez,
  • Emmanuel Kakra Dickson,
  • Paulina Ampomah,
  • Nicaise Tuikue Ndam,
  • Jan Nouta,
  • Carolien A. M. Koeleman,
  • Agnes L. Hipgrave Ederveen,
  • Benjamin Mordmüller,
  • Ali Salanti,
  • Morten Agertoug Nielsen,
  • Achille Massougbodji,
  • C. Ellen van der Schoot,
  • Michael F. Ofori,
  • Manfred Wuhrer,
  • Lars Hviid,
  • Gestur Vidarsson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26118-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Here, Larsen et al. describe differences in Fc fucosylation of P. falciparum PfEMP1-specific IgG produced in response to natural infection versus VAR2CSA-type subunit vaccination, which leads to differences in the ability to induce FcγRIIIa-dependent natural killer cell degranulation.