The secreted aspartyl proteinase activity from Candida albicans is thought to be a potential virulence factor. Four laboratories have cloned a gene from C. albicans encoding this enzyme. When two of these genes sharing 77% homology at the DNA level are hybridized under conditions of high stringency to contour-clamped homogeneous electric field chromosome separations of four different strains, t...

Bacteriophages or phages are the viruses that infect bacteria. Phages like all viruses are made up of a nucleic acid core which is surrounded by a protein coat. The majority of phages are known to contain DNA but some contain RNA also. In this study, four salmonella phages were isolated and were subjected to molecular characterization. All the four Salmonella phages were found to contain DNA as...

a highly efficient cloning vector was constructed for cloning pcr products by inserting an 80 bp dna fragment into pgem-5zf (+) vector. the xcm i digestion of this vector gave rise to a 3’ overhanging deoxythymidine offering the possibility of cloning pcr products with 3' adenosine overhang created by taq dna polymerase. furthermore, two ecor i sites were added to the construct for identificati...

background: tuberculosis (tb) remains as a major cause of death around the world. construction of a new vaccine against tuberculosis is an effective way to control it. several vaccines against this disease have been developed. the aim of the present study was to cloning of tb10.4 gene in pcdna3.1+ plasmid and evaluation of its expression in eukaryotic cells. methods: firstly, tb10.4 fragment wa...

cloning is a term traditionally used to describe different processes for duplicating biological material. a clone is an organism that is a genetic copy of an existing one. the use of the technique of nuclear transfer for reproduction of human beings is surrounded by strong ethical and legal concerns and controversies. some international organizations have made significant efforts to establish c...