Gene delivery to neural cells is central to the development of transplantation therapies for neurological diseases. In this study, we used a baculovirus derived from the domesticated silk moth, Bombyx mori, as vector for transducing a human cell line (HEK293) and primary cultures of rat Schwann cells. Under optimal conditions of infection with a recombinant baculovirus containing the reporter g...

Virus transmission and the prevalence of infection depend on multiple factors, including the interaction with other viral pathogens infecting the same host. In this study, active replication of an iflavirus, Spodoptera exigua iflavirus 1 (order Picornavirales) was observed in the offspring of insects that survived following inoculation with a pathogenic baculovirus, Spodoptera exigua multiple n...

Efficient gene delivery of a baculovirus-derived vector (BV-p53-lacZ) to a human osteogenic sarcoma cell line, Saos-2, was serendipitously found while evaluating the vector for gene delivery to human p53-null tumour cells in a previous study. Therefore, we investigated other human, rat and mouse osteogenic sarcoma and other types of tumour cell lines for transduction efficiency via baculovirus ...

Although baculovirus has been used as a safe and convenient gene delivery vector in mammalian cells, baculovirus-mediated transgene expression is less effective in various mammalian cell lines. Identification of the negative regulators in host cells is necessary to improve baculovirus-based expression systems. Here, we performed high-throughput shRNA library screening, targeting 176 antiviral i...

The full-length putative structural proteins encoded by open reading frame 2 (ORF2) and ORF3 of hepatitis E virus have been cloned and expressed in recombinant baculovirus. Sera obtained from 28 Sudanese pediatric patients with acute hepatitis and 19 pediatric control patients were analyzed for reactivity to hepatitis E virus by using the baculovirus-expressed ORF2 and ORF3 proteins in a Wester...

background and aims: newcastle disease virus (ndv) is one of the major pathogen in poultry. vaccination is intended to control the disease as an effective solution nevertheless this virus is a growing threat to the poultry industry. f gene open reading frame (orf) from ndv is 1650 bp, encoding a protein of 553 amino acids that can induce protective immunity alone. the f glycoprotein on the surf...

Advances in the understanding of baculovirus replication and the identification of genes that affect host range set the stage for constructing recombinant baculoviruses for specific past insects. The modification of baculovirus host specificity has recently been achieved by inserting or deleting genes that affect virus replication or cellular defenses.

The filoviruses Ebola virus (EBOV) and Marburg virus (MARV) cause severe hemorrhagic fever in humans for which no vaccines are available. Previously, a priming dose of a DNA vaccine expressing the glycoprotein (GP) gene of MARV followed by boosting with recombinant baculovirus-derived GP protein was found to confer protective immunity to guinea pigs (Hevey et al., 2001. Vaccine 20, 568-593). To...

background: hepatitis c is a global health problem. the exact mechanisms by which hepatitis c virus (hcv) can evade the host immune system have become controversial. whether hcv polyproteins modulate ifn signalling pathways or hcv proteins are responsible for such a property is the subject of interest. therefore, an efficient baculovirus delivery system was developed to introduce the whole geno...

Baculovirus infection has extended the capabilities for transfection of exogenous genes into a variety of mammalian cell types. Because rat hepatocytes plated on collagen-coated dishes and maintained in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)-supplemented chemically defined medium are an excellent model system for studying liver function in vitro, we investigated the ability of baculoviruses to infect and de...