four exons of the human genomic gm-csf gene were assembled together using gene splicing by overlap extension (soe) method. the resulting nucleotide sequence was cloned in the pet23a(+) ex pression vector under the control of strong bacteriophage t7 transcription and translation signals. the construct obtained was transferred into the e. coli strain, bl21(de3) plyss and iptg was used for inducti...

epitope tagging is a method of expressing proteins whereby an epitope for a specific monoclonal antibody is fused to a target protein using recombinant dna techniques. the aim of this study was to sub-clone the peroxisomal protein (pep) cdna into a mammalian expression vector leading to the formation of a  chimeric pep-cdna containing the flag epitope. the flag-pep recombinant cdna was construc...

This paper proposes and investigates overlap catenation as a formal model of a special case of cross-pairing PCR, an experimental procedure used to recombine two DNA strands by using the DNA Polymerase enzyme. This study is part of ongoing efforts to provide a formal framework and rigorous treatment of DNA-based information and DNA-based computation. Other studies along these lines include theo...

Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease in human and animals. Brucella melitensis is one of the most pathogenic species of Brucella in goat and sheep. Omp31 is an outer membrane protein of Brucella that acts as an immunogenic protein. Cytokines are glycoproteins with low molecular weight that play the role of an immune adjuvant and regulate immune responses. Interleukin-2 is one of the most important...

Objective(s): Tuberculosis (TB) is still one of the problematic infectious diseases in developing countries, especially in Iran. In the present study, we applied ribosome display technique to select single chain variable fragments (scFvs) specific for the 6-kDa early secretory antigenic target (ESAT-6) antigen of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from a mouse scFv library. Materials and Methods: The g...

To address the need for broad-spectrum antiviral activity characterization of hepatitis C virus (HCV) polymerase inhibitors, we created a panel of intergenotypic chimeric replicons containing nonstructural (NS) protein NS5B sequences from genotype 2b (GT2b), GT3a, GT4a, GT5a, and GT6a HCV isolates. Viral RNA extracted from non-GT1 HCV patient plasma was subjected to reverse transcription. The N...