Leptospirosis caused by infection with pathogenic leptospires, which is the most prevalent zoonotic disease in the world. The outer membrane proteins (OMPs) of pathogenic leptospires such as LipL41 play a crucial role in pathogenesis of this disease. Therefore a major challenge to develop an effective vaccine against leptospirosis is application of basic research on the OMPs of leptospires to i...

background: tuberculosis (tb) is a major cause of death worldwide. finding an effective vaccine against tb is the best way to control it. several vaccines against this disease have been developed but none are completely protective. the aim of this study was to design and construct a cloning vector containing the mycobacterium tuberculosis (m. tuberculosis) heat shock protein x (hspx). methods: ...

background: the homologous recombination (hr) is one of the conventional cloning methods for the production of recombinant dna. it is a quick method for in vivo dna cloning without using the high cost restriction enzymes. a few modifications in the cloning procedure can increase the efficiency of this method. m aterials and methods: in this study, effect of heating on the rate of the igg1 heavy...

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause of death worldwide. Finding an effective vaccine against TB is the best way to control it. Several vaccines against this disease have been developed but none are completely protective. The aim of this study was to design and construct a cloning vector containing the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) heat shock protein X (hspX). Metho...

the aim of this study was to clone the serine alkaline protease-encoding gene from bacillus subtilis 168. this protease, which can have many applications especially in detergent, may be industrially an important enzyme. for the amplification of the gene, pcr was performed with a pair of primers specifically designed for this purpose. electrophoresis of the pcr product showed the expected band o...

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...

background & objective: streptococcosis is one of the bacterial infections in fish, especially rainbow trout which infects brain and nervous systems of fish and is caused by s. iniae . estimation of the impact of disease prevalence by s. iniae in fish farming in some countries is reported about 100 million dollars per year. some of the most effective proteins in pathogenicity of these bacteria ...

expressions of recombinant proteins for different applications are important objectives in molecular biotechnology; however, expression of some recombinant proteins is difficult. several methods have been designed for expression of these proteins. the aim of this study was to construct a vector containing mtb32c fragment of mycobacterium tuberculosis (m.tuberculosis) as a fusion partner in orde...

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 and aims: the aim of this study was cloning and expression of rabies virus glycoprotein by a eukaryotic expression plasmid pcdna3.1(+) in bsr cell line. this construct might be used for a potential dna vaccine. materials and methods: glycoprotein gene was synthesized and cloned into pbluescript vector and then sub cloned into eukaryotic expression vector (pcdna3.1(+)). after verifica...