beta 2 glycoprotein i (β2gpi) is a single chain 50 kda highly glycosylated glycoprotein at an approximate concentration of 4 μm in cells. the abundance of this protein in plasma and its high state of preservation indicate the important role of this protein in mammalian. in addition, β2gpi has a particular structure in the fifth domain, and is categorized as the major antigen recognized by autoa...

Background: Recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) is a common problem among couples, and acquired thrombophilia is the well-known etiology of RPL. The aim of this study was to establish the association between inherited thrombophilic gene polymorphisms and RPL. Methods: This case-control study was conducted on 50 women with unexplained RPL and 50 parous women with no history of miscarriage (age range...

introduction: glycoprotein b (gb) is the major antigen for induction of humoral responses against human cytomegalovirus (hcmv) making it an attractive candidate for immune prophylaxis. in the present study, the humoral immune response of balb/c mice to a truncated hcmv gb protein fused with gfp was evaluated. methods: the truncated gb coding sequence was synthesized and cloned in pegfpn1 eukary...

background to treat viral infection of chronic hepatitis c (chc) is a main strategy to prevent progression of liver disease, and cancer. some patients with chc have failed to respond to the common antiviral therapy in different populations. objectives in the current study it was aimed to find out the possible role of multiple drug resistance gene1 (mdr1) in non-responder patients with chc infec...

halophilic bacteria grow over a wide range of salt concentrations. in this study we aimed to isolate and screen out the halophilic bacteria and to determine their activity for production of the bioactive compounds. a total of 50 water, sediments and soil samples were collected from maharlu salt lake in southern region of fars-iran and subjected for isolation of the bioactive compound producing ...

background and aims: the aim of this study was cloning and expression of rabies virus glycoprotein by a eukaryotic expression plasmid pcdna3.1(+) in bsr cell line. this construct might be used for a potential dna vaccine. materials and methods: glycoprotein gene was synthesized and cloned into pbluescript vector and then sub cloned into eukaryotic expression vector (pcdna3.1(+)). after verifica...

the main aim of this study was to obtain the crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever virus (cchfv) glycoprotein, through either stable transgenic plants or using a transient expression system, and determine the yield, quality and finally the immunogenicity of the plant-made cchfv glycoprotein in a mouse model. we designed and synthesized a codon-optimized g1/g2 gene from the g1 and g2 parts of the cchf...

etoposide, a widely used anticancer drug, exhibits low and variable oral bioavailability mainly because of being substrate for the efflux transporter, p-glycoprotein (p-gp). therefore, the present study was aimed to investigate the effect of d-α-tocopherol polyethylene glycol 1000 succinate (tpgs) and peg 400 as p-gp inhibitors on the intestinal absorption of etoposide. everted sacs of rat smal...

background: spontaneous abortion is considered as the most complex problem during pregnancy. thrombophilia is resumed as a cause of recurrent pregnancy loss (rpl). glycoprotein iiia (gpiiia) gene is involved in thrombosis and abortion. angiotensin converting enzyme (ace) converts angiotensin i to angiotensin ii and is involved in thrombosis. the most common polymorphism in this gene is the inse...