background : echinococcosis or hydatidosis is a chronic, zoonotic worldwide infection caused by the larval stage of the dog taeniid tapeworm echinococcus granulosus. vaccination has been considered as one of the ways to prevent of hy-datidosis in recent decades. the aim of this study was to construct a pcdna3.1 eukaryotic expression vector contain-ing the subunit 8-kda antigen b (hyd1) of e. gr...

background: because of the strong immunologic responses of surface protein tasp in theileria annu­lata infected host, we tried to characterize this protein in a t. annulata isolate from iran. methods: the rna prepared from t. annulata infected cells was used to produce smart-ds-cdna. the double strand cdna was then amplified with primers derived from tasp mrna se­quences. the pcr product was cl...

abstract background: determination of transgenic embryos from non transgenic embryos sibling is an important step in producing homozygous transgenic mice. these steps need by pcr or southern blotting followed extraction of dna, but both techniques require skill and consume time. objective: the aim of this study was simulation of high accuracy method using novel enhanced green fluorescent protei...

BACKGROUND High-throughput cultivations in microtiter plates are the method of choice to express proteins from recombinant clone libraries. Such processes typically include several steps, whereby some of them are linked by replication steps: transformation, plating, colony picking, preculture, main culture and induction. In this study, the effects of conventional replication methods and replica...

Eukaryotic initiation factor 5A (eIF-5A) is the only cellular protein known to contain a hypusine residue that is formed by transferring the aminobutyl moiety from spermidine to a specific lysine residue, followed by hydroxylation at the aminobutyl group. A simple PCR-based strategy was developed to obtain a full-length cDNA of Neurospora crassa eIF-5A. The strategy consists of (i) the design o...

IMPORTANCE In conjunction with chemotherapy, immunotherapy with dendritic cells (DCs) may eliminate minimal disease burden by generating cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Enhanced cytosolic bioavailability of tumor-specific antigens improves access to human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I molecules for more efficient cytotoxic T lymphocyte generation. Various cell-penetrating domains (CPDs) are known to...

Introduction Escherichia coli has a direct relationship with the diarrheagenic diseases, which occur quite in developing countries due to poor sanitation system and public health. It mainly affects children, causing a rate of morbidity and mortality worrying. This bacterium has a versatility of strains expressing different mechanisms and virulence factors, thus the importance in studying the ta...

Commercially available systems provide a variety of strategies for the expression and purification of recombinant proteins. One popular method is the polyhistidine fusion tag, which usually consists of six consecutive histidines (6×His) added to the amino or carboxyl terminus of a protein (7). The high-affinity binding of 6×His to metalchelate resins allows easy purification of 6×His-tagged pro...