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ArticleScience advances2025

Pfs230 domain 12 is a potent malaria transmission-blocking vaccine candidate.

Maartje R Inklaar, Roos M de Jong, Dari F Da, Lisanne L Hubregtse, Maartje Meijer, Karina Teelen, Ezra T Bekkering, Sanne Grievink, Marga van de Vegte-Bolmer, Geert-Jan van Gemert and 11 more

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Article in Science advances, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

21 authors.

Maartje R InklaarDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-7707-9357
Roos M de JongDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-9467-8474
Dari F DaInstitut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Direction Régionale, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.
Lisanne L HubregtseDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.ORCID 0009-0006-3948-2627
Maartje MeijerDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Karina TeelenDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Ezra T BekkeringDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-5994-8654
Sanne GrievinkDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Marga van de Vegte-BolmerDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Geert-Jan van GemertDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-2740-5337
Rianne StoterDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Hikaru NagaokaDivision of Malaria Research, Proteo-Science Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan.
Takafumi TsuboiDivision of Cell-Free Sciences, Proteo-Science Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan.
Eizo TakashimaDivision of Malaria Research, Proteo-Science Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan.
Cornelia G SpruijtDepartment of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, Oncode Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-1789-670X
Michiel VermeulenDepartment of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, Oncode Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-0836-6894
Roch K DabireInstitut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Direction Régionale, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.ORCID 0000-0002-3471-3506
Emmanuel ArinaitweInfectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda.
Anna CohuetMIVEGEC, Montpellier University, IRD, CNRS, Montpellier, France.ORCID 0000-0002-1876-5656
Teun BousemaDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-2666-094X
Matthijs M JoreDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-0686-370X

Funding

Transmission ProjectU19AI089674 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI MATTHEW G DORSEY, MOSES Robert KAMYA · 2010 to 2026
$29.3M
NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI089674
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Malaria transmission-blocking vaccines (TBV) target sexual stage parasites that are transmitted to mosquitoes and are critical for spread of the pathogen. The clinically most advanced TBV candidate contains part of the Pro-domain (Pro) and Domain 1 (D1) of

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Antigens, ProtozoanMalaria, FalciparumMalaria VaccinesPlasmodium falciparumProtozoan ProteinsAnimalsAntibodies, ProtozoanDrosophila melanogasterFemaleHumansMiceProtein DomainsAntibodies, ProtozoanAntigens, ProtozoanMalaria VaccinesPfs230 antigen, Plasmodium falciparumProtozoan Proteins

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PMID41202138
PMCPMC12594191

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