background: cervical cancer has been shown to be highly associated with human papillomavirus (hpv) infection. the viral oncogenes e6 and e7 are constantly expressed by the tumor cells and are therefore potent targets for therapeutic genetic vaccination. in the present study, it was investigated the potential effect of hpv-16 e6, e7 and l1 co-administration to activate specific cytotoxic t lymph...

The expression vectors are designed for expression and purification of normal or recombinant gene of interest. There is a wide variety of stable and transferable selectable mammalian expression vectors.The vector pCDM8 and its derivatives, pcDNAI/Ampicilline are widely used for cloning and analyzing of genes in higher eukaryotic cells. The vectors pRC/CMV, pcDNA3 and pRC/RSV are designed for hi...

BACKGROUND Echinococcosis or hydatidosis is a chronic, zoonotic worldwide infection caused by the larval stage of the dog taeniid tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus. Vaccination has been considered as one of the ways to prevent of hydatidosis in recent decades. The aim of this study was to construct a pcDNA3.1 eukaryotic expression vector containing the subunit 8-kDa antigen B (Hyd1) of E. granul...

The overproduction of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) plays a key role in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy (DN). However, the underlying molecular mechanism remains unclear. Our aim was to investigate the role of PGC-1α in the pathogenesis of DN. Rat glomerular mesangial cells (RMCs) were incubated in normal or high glucose medium with or without the PGC-1α-overexpressing pl...

BACKGROUND AND THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Angiogenesis is an important process in physiology and disease pathogenesis and is controlled in a healthy body by a number of stimulatory and inhibitory factors. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of antisense transcript on the sense transcript of the endothelial growth factor (EGF) gene in bacterial system as an approach for the gene regu...

Fig. I. Survivin inhibits Baxand Faa-inducedapoptosis in 293 cells. A, 293 cells were transfectedwith pcDNA3myc (control), pcDNA3myc-Survivin,pcDNA3myc-XIAP. pcDNA3-Bax, pcDNA3myc-Survivin+ pcDNA3-Bax, or pcDNA3myc-XIAP+ pcDNA3-Bax plasmidDNAs. One day later,the percentageof apoptoticcells (DAPI-staining)was determined (mean ±SE for three determinations). B, the expression of the transfected p...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to construct a recombinant adenovirus vector carrying mouse 4-1BBL and observe its effects in dendritic cells. MATERIALS AND METHODS Mouse 4-1BBL cDNA was taken from the plasmid pcDNA3-m4- 1BBL and subcloned into adenovirus shuttle plasmid pAdTrack-CMV, and then transformed into competent BJ5183 with plasmid pAdEasy-1. After recombination in E.coli, Ad-4-1...

background: protozoa related to trypanosome family including leishmania , synthesize enzymes to escape from drug therapy. one of them is ptr1 that its enzymatic activity is similar to dihydrofolate reductase (dhfr). dihydrofolate reductase - thymidylate synthase has a major role in dna synthesis, if it is inhibited, the result would be the death of parasite. since ptr1 activity is similar to dh...