Background: Oncolytic herpes simplex virus (oHSV)-based vectors lacking γ34.5 gene, are considered as ideal templates to construct efficient vectors for (targeted) cancer gene therapy. Herein, we reported the construction of three single/dually-flourescence labeled and γ34.5-deleted, recombinant HSV-1 vectors for rapid generation and easy selection/isolation of different HSV-Based v...

Fluorescent retroviral envelope (Env) proteins were developed for direct visualization of viral particles. By fusing the enhanced green fluorescent protein (eGFP) to the N terminus of the amphotropic 4070A envelope protein, extracellular presentation of eGFP was achieved. Viruses incorporated the modified Env protein and efficiently infected cells. We used the GFP-tagged viruses for staining re...

background: mehr-80 is a newly established adherent human large cell lung cancer cell line that has not been transfected until now. this study aims to define the optimal transfection conditions and effects of some critical elements for enhancing gene delivery to this cell line by utilizing different non-viral transfection procedures. methods: in the current study, calcium phosphate (cap), deae-...

In proteins homologous to the green fluorescent protein (GFP), formation of red fluorescence requires three autocatalytic steps, whereas only two are needed for green fluorescence. Multiple red/green color diversification events in the GFP superfamily may reflect convergent evolution of the more complex three-step pathway. In the great star coral Montastraea cavernosa, a recreated common ancest...

Fluorescent reference strains of bacteria carrying a stable chromosomally integrated single copy of the gfp gene have been developed. A modified version of the gfp gene has been generated by mutagenesis and expressed under the control of the bacteriophage lambda promoter PL. A cassette comprising bacteriophage Mu transposon arms flanking the modified gfp gene and regulatory regions was irrevers...

Two Arabidopsis thaliana genes have been shown to function in vacuolar sorting of seed storage proteins: a vacuolar sorting receptor, VSR1/ATELP1, and a retromer component, MAIGO1 (MAG1)/VPS29. Here, we show an efficient and simple method for isolating vacuolar sorting mutants of Arabidopsis. The method was based on two findings in this study. First, VSR1 functioned as a sorting receptor for be...

Green fluorescent protein (GFP) is a 27 kD protein consisting of 238 amino acid residues [1]. GFP was first identified in the aquatic jellyfish Aequorea victoria by Osamu Shimomura et al. in 1961 while studying aequorin, a Ca2+-activated photoprotein.Aequorin and GFP are local‐ ized in the light organs of A. victoria and GFP was accidentally discovered when the energy of the blue light emitted ...

The presequence of the ornithine transcarbamylase precursor (pOTC) was fused to green fluorescent protein (GFP), yielding pOTC-GFP and pOTCN-GFP containing the presequence plus 4 and 58 residues of mature ornithine transcarbamylase, respectively. When GFP cDNA was transfected into COS-7 cells, the cytosol and nucleus were fluorescent. On the other hand, pOTC-GFP cDNA gave strong fluorescence of...

Since the discovery of the green fluorescent green protein (GFP) in 1961 many variants of fluorescent proteins (FP) were detected. The importance was underlined by the Nobel price award in chemistry 2008 for the invention, application, and development of the GFP by Shimomura, Chalfie and Tsien. GFP, first described by Shimomura now is indispensible in the scientific daily life. Since then and a...