Generation, purification, and MAb recognition of nucleocapsid-like particles (NLP)-recombinant proteins. (a) Schematic representation of P. vivax circumsporozoite (PvCSP) proteins fused with mumps virus nucleocapsid expressed from P. pastoris. (b) NLP-CSPCT and NLP-CSPR are represented as lines 1 and 2, respectively. SDS-PAGE analysis under reducing conditions of purified recombinant proteins gel-stained with Coomassie blue (1 µg of protein per lane) and protein recognition by mAbs anti-VK210, anti-VK247, and anti-NP, and by polyclonal anti-P. vivax-like antibody. (c) The purity of the proteins after chromatography was analyzed by RP-HPLC, in which the gradient elution was developed by combining 0.1% trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) in water and 0.1% TFA in 90% acetonitrile at 24 °C, 1 mL/min for 40 min in a C18 column.