Background: Newcastle disease is a major avian disease that causes enormous economic loss in poultry industry. There have been a number of reports on the suitability of plant-based recombinant vaccine against this disease. Fusion (F) and hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) epitopes of the Newcastle disease virus (NDV) represent the major immunogenic sites for development of recomb...

Smets proposes the Pignistic Probability Transformation (PPT) as decision layer in Transferable Belief Model (TBM), which argues when there is no more information, we have to make a using Mass Function (PMF). In this paper, Evolution Network (BEN) and full causality function are proposed by introducing Hierarchical Hypothesis Space (HHS). Based on BEN, interpret PPT from an information fusion v...

Background and Aims: Since the produced recombinant proteins by molecular genetics techniques commonly have some limitations in the application, chimeric protein are introduced. Chimeric proteins have found widespread application for the study of protein folding, structure stability, function and immunogenisity. Methods: According to the known Immunomodulatory effect and structure of HSP70 mole...

Recent advances in RNA-sequencing technology have enabled the discovery of gene fusion transcripts in the transcriptome of cancer cells. However, it remains difficult to differentiate the therapeutically targetable fusions from passenger events. We have analyzed RNA-sequencing data and DNA copy number data from 25 endometrial cancer cell lines to identify potential therapeutically targetable fu...

I present a software system PCRCLNG that facilitates the design of endonuclease restriction sites into the 5'-end of PCR primers. The product amplified using these primers can be directly cloned into vectors. The program estimates the annealing temperature for each primer and selects the primer pairs with comparable annealing temperature. Finally the software determines whether the PCR product ...

OBJECTIVE To obtain 1-4 IgG-like domains of mouse vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR2) fusion protein (mVEGFR2D1-4/GST) and identify its antiginicity and biological activity. METHODS The gene of mVEGFR2D1-4 was amplified by RT-PCR from 14-days embryos of Balb/c mice. The PCR product was cloned into pET-42a prokaryotic expression vector to construct the recombinant plasmid pE...

PURPOSE Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) carries a translocation resulting in the collagen type I alpha 1 (COL1A1)-platelet-derived growth factor beta (PDGFB) fusion gene, which is responsible for PDGFB activation. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the clinicopathological, genetic, and therapeutic features of DFSP in Korean patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Clinicopathological feat...

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) is an economically important swine disease that has devastated the swine industry worldwide. Vaccination with live attenuated vaccine or inactivated vaccine is the main treatment to control PRRS. However, the disadvantages such as virulence resumption of the attenuated vaccine and low immunogenicity of the inactivated vaccine call for a more ...

BACKGROUND Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB). Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine, is not effective in adults, therefore, many efforts have been made to produce an effective adult TB vaccine. The aim of this study was to develop a new tuberculosis DNA vaccine candidate encoding a recombinant HspX-PPE44-EsxV fusion antigen of M. tuberculosis. METHODS A fu...