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Infect Immun. 1992 November; 60(11): 4656-4661

Transfer of a dense granule protein of Plasmodium falciparum to the membrane of ring stages and isolation of dense granules.

Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021.

ABSTRACT

A 14-kDa protein was localized to the dense granules of Plasmodium falciparum by immunoelectron microscopy with monoclonal antibody 1H1. The protein was present in dense granules in late-stage schizonts and free merozoites. After invasion, the protein was localized exclusively on the membrane of the newly invaded ring. The protein is referred to as RIMA, for ring membrane antigen. The 14-kDa protein was synthesized late in schizogony as determined by immunofluorescence microscopy and immunoblotting. At the late schizont stage it was distributed diffusely throughout the intracellular schizont. Only at the segmenter stage was the protein localized in defined spots that correspond to dense granules. Dense granules were isolated from schizont-infected erythrocytes by subcellular fractionation on a sucrose gradient. Fractions containing the 14-kDa protein were detected by immunoblotting with monoclonal antibody 1H1. The 14-kDa protein was first detected in vesicles at the late (8-nucleus) schizont stage. Mature dense granules sedimented with a peak density of 1.17 g/ml, which is similar to the density of rhoptries isolated by the same procedure.

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