there are many studies related to the production of a elisa kit for diagnosing virus infections. however, production of most kits depends on purification of whole virus particles, which involves the use of costly equipment and reagents. the purpose of this study was to check out if the anti-cp42 antibodies could be used as a diagnostic assay for detection of grapevine fanleaf virus (gflv). in t...

In this research, various polycyclic fused acridines were synthesized via the highly efficient and green one-step four-component reaction between isatins, dimedone, various amines, and dimethylacetylenedicarboxylates (DMAD/DEAD) in the presence of n-octyl-3-methylpipyridinium bromide ([OMePPy]+Br-) as a newly prepared ionic liquid, in absolute green situations at room temperature under solvent-...

Interleukin-2 (IL-2) is a cytokine that induces the proliferation of certain IL-2 receptor expressing quiescent cells. Human IL-2 was fused to the amino-terminus of amphotropic murine leukemia virus (MLV) envelope glycoproteins. Retroviral vectors were pseudotyped with both the IL-2 chimeric envelope and the wild-type amphotropic MLV envelope. The chimeric IL-2 glycoproteins were incorporated o...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major cause of chronic liver disease, with an estimated 170 million people infected worldwide. Low yields, poor stability, and inefficient binding to conventional EM grids have posed significant challenges to the purification and structural analysis of HCV. In this report, we generated an infectious HCV genome with an affinity tag fused to the E2 envelope glycoprote...

BACKGROUND Isolation of human antibodies using current display technologies can be limited by constraints on protein expression, folding and post-translational modifications. Here we describe a discovery platform that utilizes self-inactivating (SIN) lentiviral vectors for the surface display of high-affinity single-chain variable region (scFv) antibody fragments on human cells and lentivirus p...

background: development of an effective vaccine is highly needed in order to restrict the aids pandemic. dna vaccines initiate both arms of immunity without the potential of causing disease. hiv-1 p24 and gp41 (gag and env) proteins play important roles in viral pathogenesis and are effective candidates for immune induction and vaccine design. objective: in this study, new dna vaccine candidate...