Pseudorabies virus glycoprotein E (PRV gE) has been recognized as a suitable diagnostic antigen for pseudorabies. In order to produce gE antigen in large quantities and at low cost, a gene fragment encoding PRV gE c...Pseudorabies virus glycoprotein E (PRV gE) has been recognized as a suitable diagnostic antigen for pseudorabies. In order to produce gE antigen in large quantities and at low cost, a gene fragment encoding PRV gE core epitopes was expressed in E. coli BL21 expression system. SDS-PAGE and Western Blotting revealed that the expression product in culture supematant of E. coli BL21 was a recombinant protein, approximately 51.8 Kd. At 5 h post-induction, protein concentration assay showed that the expression product amounted to 1.65 mg/ml, accounting for 24. 17% of total proteins in the culture supematant. An indirect PRV gE-ELISA was established by using the recombinant expression product as a coating antigen. Cross-reactivity assay showed that this antigen was PRV specific. In addition, the assay was consistently reproducible. Comparison of detection results of 240 serum samples between PRV gE-ELISA and a commercially available PRV diagnostic kit showed that there was no significant difference between these two methods (P 〉 0.05 ).展开更多
CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing can inhibit virus infection by targeting the conserved regions of the viral genomic DNA. Unexpectedly, we found previously that pseudorabies virus(PRV) could escape from CRISPR/Cas9...CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing can inhibit virus infection by targeting the conserved regions of the viral genomic DNA. Unexpectedly, we found previously that pseudorabies virus(PRV) could escape from CRISPR/Cas9-mediated inhibition.In order to elucidate whether the escape of PRV from Cas9-mediated inhibition was due to cell deficiencies, such as genetic instability of sgRNA or Cas9 protein, the positive cells were passaged ten times, and PRV infection in the sgRNA-expressing cells was evaluated in the present study. The results showed that subculturing cells has no effect on Cas9-mediated cleavage of PRV. Different passages of PX459-PRV cells can stably express sgRNA to facilitate Cas9/sgRNA cleavage on the UL30 gene of PRV, resulting in a pronounced inhibition of PRV infection. Studies to elucidate the mechanism of PRV escape are currently in progress.展开更多
The purpose of this study was to develop a method for detecting antibodies against porcine pseudorabies virus (PRV). According to the published genomic sequence of PRV SA strain, an approximately 1 070-bp gD gene fr...The purpose of this study was to develop a method for detecting antibodies against porcine pseudorabies virus (PRV). According to the published genomic sequence of PRV SA strain, an approximately 1 070-bp gD gene fragment was amplified by PCR. The PCR products were cloned into the prokaryotic expression vector pET30a and the positive recombinant plasmid was transformed into E. coli BL21. Through induction with IPTG, the recombinant gD protein was expressed as inclusion bodies. As analyzed by western blot assay, the purified recombinant gD protein had good antigenicity and high specificity. Using the purified gD protein as coating antigen and horseradish peroxidase labeled staphylococcal protein A (PPA) as secondary antibody, we developed a PPA-ELISA for detecting antibodies against porcine PPV. No cross-reaction with the positive sera against seven common pathogens in pigs including classical swine fever virus, porcine parvovirus, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, Japanese encephalitis virus, porcine circovirus type 2, porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, transmissible gastroenteritis virus was observed. The repeatability test showed that the intra- and inter-assay coefficients of variation were lower than 5% and 10%, respectively. Compared with the ELISA gD antibody test kit produced by IDEXX, the coincidence, sensitivity and specificity of the developed PPA-ELISA were 92.0%, 95.1% and 88.1%, respectively. The developed PPA-ELISA had good repeatability, sensitivity and specificity and was a rapid and simple serological method for surveillance of PRV antibodies in pig herds as well as for rapid diagnosis and epidemiological investigation of PRV infection.展开更多
Pseudorabies is caused by pseudorabies virus (PrV), which is a member of family Herpesviridae, subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae and is the agent of acute infectious disease in many domestic and wild animals. Swine was the...Pseudorabies is caused by pseudorabies virus (PrV), which is a member of family Herpesviridae, subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae and is the agent of acute infectious disease in many domestic and wild animals. Swine was the natural host and reservior of PRV, which inflicts major economic loss in pig industries world wide. Immunization with safe, effective vaccine is main measurements to prevent the disease. In this assay, research progress on PRV gene-deleted vaccine used extensively today was discussed.展开更多
To understand immunization effect of pseudorabies vaccine and infection status of porcine pseudorabies (PR) in pig farms and guide prevention and control against PR, 453 copies of blood samples collected from 43 dif...To understand immunization effect of pseudorabies vaccine and infection status of porcine pseudorabies (PR) in pig farms and guide prevention and control against PR, 453 copies of blood samples collected from 43 different scale pig farms in four counties (districts) of Binzhou City were detected with ELISA to investigate PRV gB antibody and gE antibody. Detection results showed that the gB antibody positive rate of sows was 75.58%, and that of fattening pigs was 68.67% ; the pig farms with positive rate higher than 70% accounted for 74.42% of total survey pig farms. The PRV gE antibody positive rates of sows and fatte- ning pigs were 25.41% and 26.67%, and the positive rates of pig farms were 46.51% and 44.33%, respectively. There were regional differences among counties (districts).展开更多
The disulfide bond plays a crucial role in the design of anti-tumor prodrugs due to its exceptional tumor-specific redox responsiveness. However, premature breaking of disulfide bonds is triggered by small amounts of ...The disulfide bond plays a crucial role in the design of anti-tumor prodrugs due to its exceptional tumor-specific redox responsiveness. However, premature breaking of disulfide bonds is triggered by small amounts of reducing substances (e.g., ascorbic acid, glutathione, uric acid and tea polyphenols) in the systemic circulation. This may lead to toxicity, particularly in oral prodrugs that require more frequent and high-dose treatments. Fine-tuning the activation kinetics of these prodrugs is a promising prospect for more efficient on-target cancer therapies. In this study, disulfide, steric disulfide, and ester bonds were used to bridge cabazitaxel (CTX) to an intestinal lymph vessel-directed triglyceride (TG) module. Then, synthetic prodrugs were efficiently incorporated into self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery system (corn oil and Maisine CC were used as the oil phase and Cremophor EL as the surfactant). All three prodrugs had excellent gastric stability and intestinal permeability. The oral bioavailability of the disulfide bond-based prodrugs (CTX-(C)S-(C)S-TG and CTX-S-S-TG) was 11.5- and 19.1-fold higher than that of the CTX solution, respectively, demonstrating good oral delivery efficiency. However, the excessive reduction sensitivity of the disulfide bond resulted in lower plasma stability and safety of CTX-S-S-TG than that of CTX-(C)S-(C)S-TG. Moreover, introducing steric hindrance into disulfide bonds could also modulate drug release and cytotoxicity, significantly improving the anti-tumor activity even compared to that of intravenous CTX solution at half dosage while minimizing off-target adverse effects. Our findings provide insights into the design and fine-tuning of different disulfide bond-based linkers, which may help identify oral prodrugs with more potent therapeutic efficacy and safety for cancer therapy.展开更多
基金Supported by Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(ZR2012CQ012)Shandong Provincial Technical Innovation Grant of China(201220916006)
文摘Pseudorabies virus glycoprotein E (PRV gE) has been recognized as a suitable diagnostic antigen for pseudorabies. In order to produce gE antigen in large quantities and at low cost, a gene fragment encoding PRV gE core epitopes was expressed in E. coli BL21 expression system. SDS-PAGE and Western Blotting revealed that the expression product in culture supematant of E. coli BL21 was a recombinant protein, approximately 51.8 Kd. At 5 h post-induction, protein concentration assay showed that the expression product amounted to 1.65 mg/ml, accounting for 24. 17% of total proteins in the culture supematant. An indirect PRV gE-ELISA was established by using the recombinant expression product as a coating antigen. Cross-reactivity assay showed that this antigen was PRV specific. In addition, the assay was consistently reproducible. Comparison of detection results of 240 serum samples between PRV gE-ELISA and a commercially available PRV diagnostic kit showed that there was no significant difference between these two methods (P 〉 0.05 ).
基金financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2017YFD0500103)the Beijing Natural Science Foundation(No.5152023)+4 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31772747 and31272385)the Jilin Province Science and Technology Development Projects(20150204077NY)the Graduate Innovation Fund of Jilin Universitythe Program for Chang jiang Scholarsthe University Innovative Research Team(No.IRT1248)
文摘CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing can inhibit virus infection by targeting the conserved regions of the viral genomic DNA. Unexpectedly, we found previously that pseudorabies virus(PRV) could escape from CRISPR/Cas9-mediated inhibition.In order to elucidate whether the escape of PRV from Cas9-mediated inhibition was due to cell deficiencies, such as genetic instability of sgRNA or Cas9 protein, the positive cells were passaged ten times, and PRV infection in the sgRNA-expressing cells was evaluated in the present study. The results showed that subculturing cells has no effect on Cas9-mediated cleavage of PRV. Different passages of PX459-PRV cells can stably express sgRNA to facilitate Cas9/sgRNA cleavage on the UL30 gene of PRV, resulting in a pronounced inhibition of PRV infection. Studies to elucidate the mechanism of PRV escape are currently in progress.
基金funded by the Special Fund for Research and Development of Application Technology of Binzhou City(200706)Youth Science and Technology Innovation Fund of Shandong Binzhou Animal Science & Veterinary Medicine Academy (2007-02)
文摘The purpose of this study was to develop a method for detecting antibodies against porcine pseudorabies virus (PRV). According to the published genomic sequence of PRV SA strain, an approximately 1 070-bp gD gene fragment was amplified by PCR. The PCR products were cloned into the prokaryotic expression vector pET30a and the positive recombinant plasmid was transformed into E. coli BL21. Through induction with IPTG, the recombinant gD protein was expressed as inclusion bodies. As analyzed by western blot assay, the purified recombinant gD protein had good antigenicity and high specificity. Using the purified gD protein as coating antigen and horseradish peroxidase labeled staphylococcal protein A (PPA) as secondary antibody, we developed a PPA-ELISA for detecting antibodies against porcine PPV. No cross-reaction with the positive sera against seven common pathogens in pigs including classical swine fever virus, porcine parvovirus, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, Japanese encephalitis virus, porcine circovirus type 2, porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, transmissible gastroenteritis virus was observed. The repeatability test showed that the intra- and inter-assay coefficients of variation were lower than 5% and 10%, respectively. Compared with the ELISA gD antibody test kit produced by IDEXX, the coincidence, sensitivity and specificity of the developed PPA-ELISA were 92.0%, 95.1% and 88.1%, respectively. The developed PPA-ELISA had good repeatability, sensitivity and specificity and was a rapid and simple serological method for surveillance of PRV antibodies in pig herds as well as for rapid diagnosis and epidemiological investigation of PRV infection.
文摘Pseudorabies is caused by pseudorabies virus (PrV), which is a member of family Herpesviridae, subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae and is the agent of acute infectious disease in many domestic and wild animals. Swine was the natural host and reservior of PRV, which inflicts major economic loss in pig industries world wide. Immunization with safe, effective vaccine is main measurements to prevent the disease. In this assay, research progress on PRV gene-deleted vaccine used extensively today was discussed.
基金Supported by Science and Technology Cooperation Project of Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences(214YDHZ32)Pig Industry Innovation Team of Agricultural Industry Research System of Shandong Province(SDAIT-06-011-14)
文摘To understand immunization effect of pseudorabies vaccine and infection status of porcine pseudorabies (PR) in pig farms and guide prevention and control against PR, 453 copies of blood samples collected from 43 different scale pig farms in four counties (districts) of Binzhou City were detected with ELISA to investigate PRV gB antibody and gE antibody. Detection results showed that the gB antibody positive rate of sows was 75.58%, and that of fattening pigs was 68.67% ; the pig farms with positive rate higher than 70% accounted for 74.42% of total survey pig farms. The PRV gE antibody positive rates of sows and fatte- ning pigs were 25.41% and 26.67%, and the positive rates of pig farms were 46.51% and 44.33%, respectively. There were regional differences among counties (districts).
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.82173766,82104109)Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province(2022-BS158)+1 种基金Liaoning Province Applied Basic Research Program(No.2022JH2/101300097)National Key R&D Program of China(No.2022YFE0111600).
文摘The disulfide bond plays a crucial role in the design of anti-tumor prodrugs due to its exceptional tumor-specific redox responsiveness. However, premature breaking of disulfide bonds is triggered by small amounts of reducing substances (e.g., ascorbic acid, glutathione, uric acid and tea polyphenols) in the systemic circulation. This may lead to toxicity, particularly in oral prodrugs that require more frequent and high-dose treatments. Fine-tuning the activation kinetics of these prodrugs is a promising prospect for more efficient on-target cancer therapies. In this study, disulfide, steric disulfide, and ester bonds were used to bridge cabazitaxel (CTX) to an intestinal lymph vessel-directed triglyceride (TG) module. Then, synthetic prodrugs were efficiently incorporated into self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery system (corn oil and Maisine CC were used as the oil phase and Cremophor EL as the surfactant). All three prodrugs had excellent gastric stability and intestinal permeability. The oral bioavailability of the disulfide bond-based prodrugs (CTX-(C)S-(C)S-TG and CTX-S-S-TG) was 11.5- and 19.1-fold higher than that of the CTX solution, respectively, demonstrating good oral delivery efficiency. However, the excessive reduction sensitivity of the disulfide bond resulted in lower plasma stability and safety of CTX-S-S-TG than that of CTX-(C)S-(C)S-TG. Moreover, introducing steric hindrance into disulfide bonds could also modulate drug release and cytotoxicity, significantly improving the anti-tumor activity even compared to that of intravenous CTX solution at half dosage while minimizing off-target adverse effects. Our findings provide insights into the design and fine-tuning of different disulfide bond-based linkers, which may help identify oral prodrugs with more potent therapeutic efficacy and safety for cancer therapy.