Background and Aims: Enzybiotics are probably the future line of weapons against drug resistant bacteria. They lyse bacteria with the new mechanisms with few likelihood of generating resistance. LasA, which is secreted from Pseudomonas strains degrades Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) cell wall and has the potential to use against drug resistant S. aureus infections.  Materials and Metho...

Chlamydia trachomatis is an obligate intracellular bacterium that infects the oculogenital mucosae. C. trachomatis infection of the eye causes trachoma, the leading cause of preventable blindness. Infections of the genital mucosae are a leading cause of sexually transmitted diseases. A vaccine to prevent chlamydial infection is needed but has proven difficult to produce by using conventional va...

In this study, our previously reported novel synthetic gene encoding 166 residues of interferon-? was used for an efficient expression of IFN-?. The synthetic gene was cloned into pET21a expression vector and transferred into E. coli. Recombinant protein was over-expressed in the E. coli. Identity of the recombinant protein was confirmed by western blot analysis. The recombinant protein was bio...

diphtheria is a fatal disease caused by exotoxin of corynebacterium     diphtheria .  this toxin consists of   two chains, catalytic chain (a) and binding (b) chain. by binding chain (b),   the toxin binds to its receptor on numerous body cells such as myocardial,   kidney and peripheral nerve cells. after entering, catalytic chain (a)   inhibits protein synthesis and finally can cause cell dea...

b ackground: the prevalence of urinary tract infection (uti) is really high in the world. escherichia coli is a major agent of uti. one of the strategies for decreasing uti infections is vaccine development. as the attachment is a really important stage in colonization and infection, at- tachment inhibition has an applied strategy.  fimh protein is a major factor during bacterial colonization i...

Studies using the guinea pig model of chlamydial genital infection with the Chlamydia psittaci agent of guinea pig inclusion conjunctivitis (GPIC) have shown that serum and local antibodies play a role both in the resolution of infection and in protection against reinfection. Thus, this model is suited for further exploration of immune mechanisms and for vaccine studies with chlamydial macromol...

Bcl-2 family proteins are recognized as major regulators of the mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis. They control the mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization (MOMP) by directly localizing to this organelle. Further investigations demonstrated that Bcl-2 related proteins are also found in other intracellular compartments such as the endoplasmic reticulum, the Golgi apparatus, the nucleus an...

objective: escherichia coli o157:h7 is a gram-negative rod-shaped bacterium. e coli o157:h7 is an enterohemorrhagic (ehec) strain of the bacterium escherichia coli and a cause of foodborne illness. infection often leads to bloody diarrhea by producing a toxin called shiga toxin, which damages the intestines, and occasionally leads to kidney failure, especially in young children and elderly peop...

background and objectives: brucellosis is an important health problem in developing countries and no vaccine is available for the prevention of infection in humans. because of clinically infectious diseases and their economic consequences in human and animals, designing a proper vaccine against brucella is desirable. in this study, we evaluated the immune responses induced by a designed recombi...