Abstract
Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite surface protein 2 (Pf SSP2), also called thrombospondin related anonymous protein (TRAP), is involved in the process of sporozoite invasion of hepatocytes. Pf SSP2/TRAP possesses two different adhesion domains sharing sequences and structural homology with von Willebrand factor A-domains and human repeat I thrombospondin (TSP). Pf SSP2/TRAP has also been implicated in sporozoite mobility and in mosquito salivary gland invasion processes. We tested 15-mer long synthetic peptides having five overlapping residues covering the complete protein Pf SSP2 sequence in binding assays to Hep G2 cells. In these 57 peptides, 21 high-activity binding peptides (HABPs) were identified; five were in the adhesion domains already described and 16 were in two regions toward the protein's carboxy and middle terminal part. Six HABPs showed conserved amino acid sequences: 3243 (21FLVNGRDVQNNIVDE35), 3279 (201FLVGCHPSDGKCNLY215), 3287 (241TASCGVWDEWSPCSV255), 3289 (251SPCSVTCGKGTRSRK265), 3327 (441ERKQSDPQSQDNNGNY455) and 3329 (451DNNGNRHVPNSEDREY465). The HABPs show saturable binding and dissociation constants between 140 and 900 nm with 40 000-855 000 binding sites per cell. The 3279 (201FLVGCHPSDGKCNLY215), 3323 (42...Continue Reading
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