Salmonella enterica is a versatile live carrier for the presentation of recombinant vaccine antigens. Fusion proteins of a type III secretion system effector and heterologous vaccine antigens can be translocated by live attenuated Salmonella strains and mediate protective immunity against infections. Here we investigated the use expression cassettes for translocated fusion protein consisting of...

Background: Parathyroid Hormone (PTH) is secreted by parathyroid glands and controls the level of calcium in bones and kidney. PTH is a small polypeptide with 84 amino acids, but the first 34 amino acids of which are enough for hormone biological activity and can be used in the treatment of Osteoporosis. The expression efficiency of recombinant human parathyroid hormone rhPTH (1-34) or Teripara...

A conformationally restricted B cell epitope has been identified as a potential safe vaccine candidate from the major group A streptococcal virulence factor, the M protein. To maintain alpha-helical secondary structure, the minimal epitope is flanked with heterologous sequences to produce the chimeric vaccine candidate called J14. As a strategy toward developing an affordable multivalent GAS va...

UNLABELLED Although respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of lower respiratory tract infections in infants, a safe and effective vaccine is not yet available. Live-attenuated vaccines (LAVs) are the most advanced vaccine candidates in RSV-naive infants. However, designing an LAV with appropriate attenuation yet sufficient immunogenicity has proven challenging. In this study, we...

To optimize antigen delivery by Salmonella vaccine strains, a system for surface display of antigenic determinants was established by using the autotransporter secretion pathway of gram-negative bacteria. A modular system for surface display allowed effective targeting of heterologous antigens or fragments thereof to the bacterial surface by the autotransporter domain of AIDA-I, the Escherichia...

background: rotaviruses (rv) are important viral diarrheal agents in calves. vaccination is an optimum measure to prevent bovine rotaviruses (brv) infection. however, little research on brv vp7 vaccine has been done and currently there is no brv vaccine. objective: to prepare a subunit vaccine of brv and investigate its efficacy. methods: total rna was extracted from ma104 cells infected with b...

toxoplasmosis is an infection caused by the protozoan parasite toxoplasma gondii (t.gondii) throughout the world. although usually asymptomatic, the infection can cause serious medical problems in immunocompromised individuals and fetuses. toxoplasmosis also causes considerable economic loss because of abortion in livestock. dna vaccination is a promising approach against intracellular parasite...

pseudomonas aeruginosa as an opportunistic pathogen is a significant cause of acute and chronic infections in patients with compromised defenses. this bacterium is motile via a single polar flagellum made of polymerized flagellin subunits differentiated into two major serotypes: a and b. flagellin plays an important role as a virulence factor in the adhesion, colonization and invasion of p. aer...

Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPNV) is a member of the family Birnaviridae that has been linked to high mortalities in salmonids. Bacterial based systems as live vectors for the delivery of heterologous antigens offer a number of advantages as vaccination strategies. VP2 is a structural viral protein of IPNV with immunogenicity effects. In this study IPNV was isolated from diseased fry ...

The immunodominant, conformational "a" determinant of hepatitis B surface Ag (HBsAg) elicits Ab responses. We selectively expressed the Ab-binding, glycosylated, native a determinant (residue 120-147) of HBsAg in a fusion protein containing C-terminally the HBsAg fragment SII (residue 80-180) fused to a SV40 T-Ag-derived hsp73-binding 77 aa (T(77)) or non-hsp-binding 60 aa (T(60)) N terminus. A...