BACKGROUND Our understanding of Hepatitis E virus (HEV) has changed enormously over the past 30 years, from a waterborne infection causing outbreaks of acute hepatitis in developing countries to an infection of global distribution causing a range of hepatic and extra-hepatic illness. However, the key proteins playing important parts in the virus infection were still unknown. Understanding the c...

Near-isogenic sunflower lines containing 25% (inbred RHA280) and 48% (RHA801) oil by seed dry mass were comparatively analyzed in biological triplicate at 18 days after flowering using two-dimensional (both pI 3-10 and 4-7) Difference Gel Electrophoresis. Additionally, two inbred lines varying in oleic acid content, HA89 (18% oleic) and HA341 (89% oleic), were also analyzed in the same manner. ...

a study was performed to study the effect of drought stress on protein changes of five wheat genotypes. wheat genotypes were planted in early november, growing season of 2008-2009. the experiment was carried out in a factotial design with three replications. two drought stress levels (irrigated and non irrigated) and five genotype of wheat (f103-l-1-12//pony/opata, f1.158/fdl//blo/3/sh14414/cro...

Background: Varicocele (VCL) impacts the testicular tissue partly by down-regulating the antioxidant status accomplished with reducing the intra-testicular endocrine potential. It has been reported that the HSP70 families play a critical role in spermiogenesis. Therefore, current study was aimed to evaluate the protective effect of exogenous testosterone and vitamin E administration on VCL-indu...

To better understand the mechanisms involved in the heavy metal stress response and tolerance in plants, a proteomic approach was used to investigate the differences in Cu-binding protein expression in Cu-tolerant and Cu-sensitive rice varieties. Cu-binding proteins from Cu-treated rice roots were separated using a new IMAC method in which an IDA-sepharose column was applied prior to the Cu-IMA...

Using 2-dimensional electrophoresis based proteomics we have investigated the protein expression profile of bovine M. longissimus thoracis et lumborum at day 2 (n=3) and day 14 (n=3) in tenderstretched and conventionally hung carcasses. From 1248 protein features detected by image analysis, 191 manually curated spots were subjected to statistical analysis. From this initial analysis, at day 2 p...