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. 2018 Aug 9;17:288. doi: 10.1186/s12936-018-2431-1

Table 2.

Parasite lines of different Plasmodium species expressing heterologous or mutated CSP and mutants lacking CSP expression

Plasmodium species CSPa Oocyst no.b Salivary gland sporozoite no.b Reference; RMgmDB IDc Remarks (mutation, sporozoite phenotype)
Chimeric CSP parasite lines
 P. berghei Py CSP WT WT [44]; 75
 P. berghei Pf CSP WT Reduced (90%) [52]; 69
 P. berghei Pf CSP WT Reduced (90%) 342
 P. berghei Pf CSP WT WT [53]; 4110
 P. berghei Pf CSP WT WT [54]; 4135
 P. yoelii Pf CSP WT WT [55]; 1442
 P. berghei Pv CSP-210 WT WT [27]; 4136
 P. berghei Pv CSP-247 WT WT [28]; 1443
 P. berghei Pv CSP-247 WT Reduced (30%) [27]; 4137
 P. berghei Pg CSP WT Absent [44]; 74 WT oocyst sporozoite formation
 P. falciparum Pv CSP-210 WT Absent This study Sporozoite formation in fraction of oocysts
 P. falciparum Pv CSP-247 WT Absent This study Sporozoite formation in fraction of oocysts
Knock-out CSP parasite lines
 P. berghei WT Absent [42]; 9 No sporozoite formation
 P. knowlesi WT Absent [43] No sporozoite formation
 P. falciparum WT Absent This study No sporozoite formation
Mutated CSP parasite lines (with a sporozoite production phenotype)
 P. berghei Mut. Pb CSP WT Absent [45]; 72 PbCSP with truncated 3′UTR; reduced sporozoite formation in oocysts
 P. berghei Mut. Pb CSP WT Absent [50]; 73 Mutations of the C-terminal GPI-anchor. No sporozoite formation in oocysts
P. berghei Mut. Pb CSP WT Absent [46]; 1148 PbCSP lacking repeat region; reduced sporozoite formation in oocysts; no midgut/salivary gland sporozoites
 P. berghei Mut. Pb CSP WT Absent [46]; 1149 PbCSP lacking repeat region and NH2 terminus; no sporozoite formation in oocysts
 P. berghei Pb/Pg CSP WT Absent [56]; 770 pbcsp replaced by pgcsp with repeat region of pbcsp

aExpression of heterologous CSP or mutated CSP

bOocyst numbers and salivary gland sporozoite numbers in infected An. stehensi mosquitoes compared to wild type (WT) infected mosquitoes. WT numbers in the same range as WT-infected mosquitoes

cMutant ID in the RMgmDB database: https://www.pberghei.eu