Detection/Measurement Of Malaria Infection Disease Utilizing Natural Immunity By Hemozoin Induction, Screening Of Preventative Or Therapeutic Medicine For Malaria Infection Disease, And Regulation Of Natural Immunity Induction

Abstract

The instant invention is to provide a method for detecting and measuring malaria infection utilizing the induction by hemozoin (HZ); a method for screening a vaccine for malaria infection and a preventative or therapeutic agent for malaria infection using the method for detecting and measuring; and a means for regulating the induction of innate immunity using the HZ, synthetic HZ, or derivatives thereof as an adjuvant or immunostimulant. Malaria infection is detected and measured of by detecting and measuring HZ-induced, TLR9-mediated, and MyD88-dependent innate immune activity. The detection and measurement of malaria infection can be used to diagnose malaria infection. The method for detecting and measuring is also used for screening a vaccine for malaria infection and a preventative or therapeutic agent for malaria infection. Further, HZ, synthetic HZ, or derivatives thereof are used as an adjuvant or immunostimulant to regulate HZ-induced innate immune induction.

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TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The instant invention relates to a method for detecting and measuring malaria infection by detecting and measuring TLR9-mediated, MyD88-dependent innate immune activity induced by hemozoin, hydrophobic heme polymers produced as a hemoglobin metabolite by malaria parasites; screening of a vaccine for malaria infection or a preventative or therapeutic agent for malaria infection using the method for detection and measurement; regulation of the induction of innate immunity using the hemozoin or synthetic hemozoin as an adjuvant or immunostimulant; a TLR9 agonist containing hemozoin, synthetic hemozoin or derivatives thereof as an active ingredient; and the like.BACKGROUND ART[0002]Malaria infection is the major cause of disease and mortality of humans, especially in the tropical regions of the world. Due to a complex life cycle and rapid polymorphism of malaria parasites, host-parasite interactions and resulting innate immune responses to malaria parasites are stil...

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Benefits of technology

[0018]Based on these findings, the present inventors found that it is possible to detect and measure malaria infection by detecting and measuring the HZ-induced, TLR9-mediated, and MyD88-dependent innate immune activity, and that the detection and measurement of malaria infection can be used for the diagnosis of malaria infection, and thus the instant invention has been completed. The present inventors also found that it is possible to screen a vaccine for malaria infection or of a preventative or therapeutic agent for malaria infection using the method for detecting and measuring malaria infection by detecting and measuring the HZ-induced innate immune activity, and thus the instant invention has been accomplished. Further, based on the above findings, the present inventors found that it is possible to regulate HZ-induced, TLR-9 mediated, and MyD88-dependent innate immune induction using HZ, synthetic HZ, or derivatives thereof as an adjuvant or immunostimulant. Specifically, the present inventors became the first to demonstrate that hemozoin is a ligand with a selective immune-response control and activation effect which induces Th1 via TLR9-MyD88 dependent pathway but does not activate other TLR families or TRIF dependent pathway which is a MyD88-independent pathway. The instant invention has been accomplished as a result of the above findings.

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Malaria infection is the major cause of disease and mortality of humans, especially in the tropical regions of the world.

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