there are many studies related to the production of a elisa kit for diagnosing virus infections. however, production of most kits depends on purification of whole virus particles, which involves the use of costly equipment and reagents. the purpose of this study was to check out if the anti-cp42 antibodies could be used as a diagnostic assay for detection of grapevine fanleaf virus (gflv). in t...

citrus tristeza virus (ctv) is among the most destructive pathogens of citrus and causes substantial economic losses in citrus-growing industry worldwide. considering recent distribution of this pathogen and its capability of transmission by existing aphid vectors in iran, detection of this virus is enforceable for controlling the damage caused by this pathogen in iran, as one of the major citr...

A 19-kDa lipoprotein from Mycobacterium tuberculosis was expressed as a recombinant antigen in the nonpathogenic mycobacterial host strain M. vaccae. Immunization of mice with the recombinant M. vaccae resulted in induction of a strong type 1 immune response to the 19-kDa antigen, characterized by immunoglobulin G2a (IgG2a) antibodies and gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) production by splenocytes. ...

The induction of strong CD8(+) T-cell responses against infectious diseases and cancer has remained a major challenge. Depending on the source of antigen and the infectious agent, priming of CD8(+) T cells requires direct and/or cross-presentation of antigenic peptides on major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules by professional antigen-presenting cells (APCs). However, both path...

Mannheimia haemolytica is responsible for considerable economic losses to cattle, sheep, and goat industries in many parts of the world. This bacterium isone of the causative agents of shipping fever in cattle. Current vaccines against M. haemolytica are moderately efficacious since they do not provide complete protection against the disease. Production of a...

objective(s): hepatitis c is a major cause of liver failure worldwide. current therapies applied for this disease are not fully effective and produce side effects in most cases. non-structural protein 3 helicase (ns3) of hcv is one of the key enzymes in viral replication and infection. therefore, this region is a promising target to design new drugs and therapies against hcv infection. the aim ...

background: the immunogenic brucella abortus ribosomal protein l7/l12 is a promising candidate antigen for the development of subunit vaccines against brucellosis. objective: this study was aimed to evaluate the protection of recombinant human serum albumin (has)-l7/l12 fusion protein in balb/c mice. methods: the amplified l7/l12 gene was cloned in pyhsa5 vector, pyhsa5-l7/l12 construct was tra...

Rearrangement of chromosome band 6p21 is recurrent in endometrial stromal sarcoma (ESS) and targets the PHF1 gene. So far, PHF1 was found to be the 3' partner in the JAZF1-PHF1 and EPC1-PHF1 chimeras but since the 6p21 rearrangements involve also other chromosomal translocation partners, other PHF1-fusions seem likely. Here, we show that PHF1 is recombined with a novel fusion partner, MEAF6 fro...

Endometrial stromal sarcomas (ESS) represent <10% of all uterine sarcomas. Cytogenetic data on this tumor type are limited to 32 cases, and the karyotypes are often complex, but the pattern of rearrangement is nevertheless clearly nonrandom with particularly frequent involvement of chromosome arms 6p and 7p. Recently, a specific translocation t(7;17)(p15;q21) leading to the fusion of two zinc f...