BACKGROUND The gp90 protein of avian reticuloendotheliosis-associated virus (REV-A) is an important envelope glycoprotein, which is responsible for inducing protective antibody immune responses in animals. B-cell epitopes on the gp90 protein of REV have not been well studied and reported. METHODS AND RESULTS This study describes the identification of a linear B-cell epitope on the gp90 protei...

Infectious diseases have become part of human civilization as a constant phenomenon throughout time. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is virus that can cause immune system weakness by attacking cells CD4 receptors and CCR5 or CXCR4 chemokine coreceptors, namely helper T macrophages dendritic cells. Therefore, people infected with this will be vulnerable to opportunistic infections cancer....

This study describes the identification of one linear B-cell epitope on TMUV NS1 protein with monoclonal antibody (mAb) 3G2 by indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). In this study, NS1 protein was expressed in prokaryotic expression system and purified. One mAb against NS1 protein was generated from Balb/c mice immunized with recombinant protein NS1. A set of 35 partially-overlappi...

We asked whether there is experimental evidence that the human immune system displays a 5 bias towards particular regions of hemagglutinin; such a bias would traditionally be called an 6 immune epitope. We obtained all available human B cell epitopes for H3 hemagglutinin from the 7 Influenza Research Database (IRD). There were two broad categories of epitope data available 8 in the epitope data...

background: dermatophagoides farinae and dermatophagoides pteronyssinus are house dust mites (hdm) that they cause severe asthma and allergic symptoms. tropomyosin protein plays an important role in mentioned immune and allergic reactions to hdms. here, tropomyosin protein from dermatophagoides spp. was comprehensively screened in silico for its allergenicity, antigenicity and similarity/conser...

background hypervariability of hcv proteins is an important obstacle to design an efficient vaccine for hcv infection. multi-epitope vaccines containing conserved epitopes of the virus could be a promising approach for protection against hcv. objectives cellular and humoral immune responses against multi-epitope dna and peptide vaccines were evaluated in balb/c mice. materials and methods in th...

BACKGROUND Peanut and tree nut allergies can be life-threatening, and they appear to be growing in prevalence. Jug r 1, a 2S albumin seed storage protein, was previously characterized as a major English walnut food allergen. OBJECTIVE We sought to identify the linear IgE-binding epitopes of Jug r 1 and to determine which, if any, amino acids are necessary for this binding to occur. METHODS ...