Three new complementation groups of type 2 herpes simplex virus are described bringing the total number of complementation groups characterized to 13. Of the three new groups, ts 11 fails to make virus DNA at non-permissive temperature (38 degrees C) whereas ts 12 and ts 13 synthesize only very small amounts of virus or cellular DNA at 38 degrees C. ts 11, like ts 9 (Halliburton & Timbury, 1973...

There are many approaches available to produce inactive bacteria by termination of growth, each with a different efficacy, impact on cell integrity, and potential for application in standardized inactivation protocols. The aim this study was compare these develop protocol generation inactivated Gram-positive Gram-negative bacteria, yielding cells that metabolically dead retained cellular integr...

human papillomavirus (hpv) has also been suggested as an etiology of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (scc). the aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of hpv infection in esophageal sccs in our region with strict contamination control to prevent false positive results. thirty cases of esophageal squamous cell carcinomas were chosen by simple random selection in a period of two y...

the  non-classical mhc  class-i mainly involves in the  regulation of  innate  immune responses where hla-e  plays a significant role in the cell identification by natural killer cells. hla-e is a main regulatory ligand for natural killer cells and given the importance of these effector cells in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, we investigated the effect of hla-e polymorphisms on post-h...

Mycoplasma infection in human and its contamination in cell cultures are worldwide problems. The drugs currently available for preventing or treating mycoplasma infection suffer from low sensitivity, strong resistance and high toxicity. Our previous work showed that Mycoplasma hyorhinis (M. hyorhinis) infection was mediated by the interaction between p37 of M. hyorhinis and Annexin A2 (ANXA2) o...

Maize kernels are susceptible to infection by the opportunistic pathogen Aspergillus flavus. Infection results in reduction of grain quality and contamination of kernels with the highly carcinogenic mycotoxin, aflatoxin. To understanding host response to infection by the fungus, transcription of approximately 9000 maize genes were monitored during the host-pathogen interaction with a custom des...

Fruit bats and insectivorous bats are believed to provide a natural reservoir for a wide variety of infectious diseases. Several lines of evidence, including the successful isolation of infectious viruses, indicate that Marburg virus and Ravn virus have found a major reservoir in colonies of the Egyptian rousette (Rousettus aegyptiacus). To facilitate molecular studies on virus-reservoir host i...

Biotechnology products, in many cases recombinant proteins, are derived from a complex expression/production system involving a genetically modified host cell (bacteria, yeast or mammalian cell). Among impurities to be eliminated during the downstream purification process, two components which are of major interest for safety and tolerance reasons are residual host cell DNA and residual host ce...

DNA sample contamination is a serious problem in DNA sequencing studies and may result in systematic genotype misclassification and false positive associations. Although methods exist to detect and filter out cross-species contamination, few methods to detect within-species sample contamination are available. In this paper, we describe methods to identify within-species DNA sample contamination...

A putative HeLa cell culture line was discovered to be contaminated with mouse cells by examination of agarose gel profiles of restriction endonuclease digests of mitochondrial DNA. The contamination was confirmed by karyotypic analysis, and by observation of the mouse satellite band in an analytical buoyant density centrifugation of total cellular DNA. Restriction endonuclease analysis of mito...