coprological analysis is still commonly employed to diagnose human fasciolosis despite the fact that this method is not utterly reliable. by far serologic methods in this case hold more validity and reliability. the purpose of the present study was to evaluate a 35-mer peptide covering a preliminary epitope of cathepsin l1, a new purified antigen of fasciola hepatica, by igg-elisa method for di...

Taste stimuli that evoke different perceptual qualities (e.g., sweet, umami, bitter, sour, salty) are detected by dedicated subpopulations of taste bud cells that use distinct combinations of sensory receptors and transduction molecules. Here, we report that taste stimuli also elicit unique patterns of neuropeptide secretion from taste buds that are correlated with those perceptual qualities. W...

To elicit specific cellular immune responses against cancer, the development of efficient devices to deliver tumor antigen peptides to the MHC class I pathway constitutes a central issue. We report here a novel formula of hydrophobized polysaccharide nanoparticles, which can deliver a HER2 oncoprotein containing an epitope peptide to the MHC class I pathway. A protein consisting of the 147 amin...

streptococcus iniae is a major cause of serious bacterial infections in both fish and human beings. capsular polysaccharide (cps) of s. iniae is vital to evade phagocytic clearance of the host and serves as an important protective antigen of s. iniae infection in aquatic animals. the cpsdgene was determined to be highly conservative in capsule polysaccharide operon. prokaryotic expression of th...

Microcin J25 (MccJ25) is a small ribosomally synthesized antimicrobial peptide that is produced by Enterobacteriacea family especially E.coli. The present study focuses on preparation and evaluation of in vitro antimicrobial and biological properties of a new peptide derived from MccJ25. We prepared a MccJ25-derived peptide containing 14 amino acids and a single intra-molecular disulfide bond a...

Botanisches Institut der Universität München, Menzinger Straße 67, D-8000 München 19, Bun­ desrepublik Deutschland Z. Naturforsch. 40c, 555—561 (1985); received February 28/May 7, 1985 Carbohydrate Chain, Murein, Pseudomurein, Model Similar density values of q = 1.39— 1.46 g/cm3 and similar repeating periodicities were deter­ mined for murein and pseudomurein. Periodicities of 4.5 and 9.5 Ä wer...

our previous study revealed that the antioxidant activity of polysaccharide (coded as fgfp) extracted from grifola frondosa by enzymolysis treatment was significantly superior than that (coded as gfp) extracted by boiling-water. in this study, one purified polysaccharide fractions (coded as fgfp-11) was obtained from fgfp by purified using deae-52 column and sephacryl s-500hr column. results in...