昆虫细胞表达鲎C因子内毒素活性检测的研究

[目的]开发一种低成本的内毒素检测试剂和方法。[方法]Bac-to-Bac杆状病毒表达系统表达重组鲎凝血C因子,利用动态荧光法进行内毒素检测活性分析。将细胞培养基经过超滤处理,分析其对内毒素检测灵敏度的影响;分析低温储存的检测试剂在不同储存时间,内毒素的检测活性。[结果]经过超滤处理的培养基,内毒素检测灵敏度明显提高,可达到0.05 EU/mL,检测时间90 min内完成;检测试剂在-20℃保存6个月内,检测灵敏度仍可以达到0.1EU/mL。[结论]在昆虫细胞中合成的重组鲎凝血C因子,无需经过蛋白纯化,直接将培养上清用于内毒素检测,灵敏度为0.1~0.05 EU/mL,高于普通鲎试剂的检测水平。     

四种氨基酸原料细菌内毒素检查法的研究

依据中国药典2000年版“细菌内毒素检查法”,通过鲎试剂的干扰试验,研究注射用氨基酸原料中细菌内毒素检查法的可行性。结果在2~16倍稀释级下,L-缬氨酸(c=2.5%)和L-异亮氨酸(c=2.5%)对鲎试剂无干扰,检测细菌内毒素的鲎试剂灵敏度≤5.0×102EU.L-1,而在16倍稀释级范围内,L-脯氨酸(c=4.5%)和L-亮氨酸(c=2.0%)对鲎试剂检查法有抑制作用。结论为注射用L-异亮氨酸和L-缬氨酸用灵敏度为5.0×102EU.L-1的鲎试剂检查其细菌内毒素方法可行,可以代替家兔法检查热原。     

乙型脑炎灭活疫苗细菌内毒素检查方法的研究

将细菌内毒素检查法(凝胶法)扩大应用于乙脑灭活疫苗的质量控制及其内毒素的检测.按<中国药典>及<中国生物制品规程方法>方法,复核鲎试剂灵敏度、确定疫苗的L值、计算MVD、进行干扰试验及内毒素的检测.疫苗L值确定为300 EU/mL,MVD为1 200倍.用灵敏度0.25 EU/mL的鲎试剂,疫苗的最大非干扰浓度为将其稀释30倍,将此疫苗稀释120倍进行干扰试验,对内毒素的检测无干扰作用.以此法对15批疫苗进行内毒素检查均呈阴性反应.结果显示,此法用于乙脑灭活疫苗质量控制及其内毒素检查是可行的.     

动态浊度法定量检测静脉注射用人免疫球蛋白中细菌内毒素含量

用鲎试剂动态浊度法定量检测静脉注射用人免疫球蛋白中细菌内毒素含量并与家兔法检测热原的结果进行对比。根据《中华人民共和国》2005年版三部附录中的细菌内毒素动态浊度法制定内毒素限值,用ATi320-06型动态试管仪和该仪器配置的中文软件"生物探针-2002"分析检测结果。静脉注射用人免疫球蛋白经稀释消除了干扰因素,动态浊度法能定量检测出内毒素含量。实验满足2005年版中国药典要求:标准曲线相关系数的绝对值︱r︱≥0.980,回收率:50%≤R≤200%,变异系数符合鲎试剂厂家的建议值CV%10%。检测结果准确、灵敏、稳定、重现性好,与家兔法检测结果相一致。鲎试剂动态浊度法能定量检测静脉注射用人免疫球蛋白中细菌内毒素含量。     

苦碟子注射液细菌内毒素检查法的探讨

目的：建立苦碟子注射液静脉点滴用药时细菌内毒素的检查方法。方法：采用2个厂家的鲎试剂对苦碟子注射液进行干扰试验。结果：鲎试剂浓度为0．25EU／mL时,苦碟子注射液稀释至1／30对细菌内毒素测定无干扰。结论：鲎试剂法检测苦碟子注射液静脉点滴用药时的细菌内毒素是可行的。     

明胶中细菌内毒素的检测

作者通过鲎试验法检测多种来源、多个批号的药用明胶中细菌内毒素含量并进行合格批号的干扰试验,证明明胶对鲎试剂有干扰作用,其作用表现为浓度越高干扰越大。抗增液无助于消除明胶对鲎试剂的干扰,而有效的稀释可克服这种干扰。并对明胶及含明胶成份的生物制品在细菌内毒素检测中的限值确定及其试验影响进行了讨论。     

东方鲎C因子的分段克隆及表达

东方鲎C因子 (factorCfromTachypleustridentatus)是鲎血细胞中的一种对内毒素敏感的丝氨酸蛋白酶原 ,它与内毒素特异结合的特性 ,使之具有很大的应用价值。根据报道的C因子序列 ,设计了两对引物 ,以中国福建沿海的东方鲎 (Tachypleustridentatus)为材料抽提其血细胞总RNA ,首次用RT PCR的方法分两段扩增了鲎血中编码C因子蛋白的基因全序列。序列分析表明 ,得到的FC基因与文献报道的来自日本的东方鲎的FC有很高的同源性。将分段克隆得到的两段FC片段经相应酶切后 ,与含T7启动子的质粒 pET 2 8a( )在一个体系中作连接反应 ,构建表达质粒pET2 8a FC ,转化大肠杆菌BL2 1(DE3) ,筛选表达菌株。表达菌株经 1mmol/LIPTG诱导表达 2 .5h后 ,收集菌体并超声破菌。经SDS PAGE分析表明 ,在 110kD左右处有明显的表达条带 ,大小与FC的计算分子量相吻合。但表达产物以包涵体形式存在。经洗涤与变复性后 ,重组FC在体外表现出明显的抑菌活性。同时蛋白质印迹实验也提示了在大肠杆菌中FC的单基因表达物可能发生部分自剪切反应 ,而形成了额外的免疫印迹条带     

艾迪注射液细菌内毒素检查方法探讨

目的:建立艾迪注射液细菌内毒素检查方法。方法:根据《中华人民共和国药典》2005年版Ⅱ部收载的细菌内毒素检查法进行。结果:将艾迪注射液稀释至1/6后可消除干扰因素,用标示灵敏度为0.25 EU/mL的鲎试剂检测细菌内毒素是有效的。结论:细菌内毒素检查法准确、可靠,适用于检测艾迪注射液中的内毒素。     

鲎试剂在抗淋巴细胞免疫球蛋白热原检测中的应用

报道了鲎试剂在抗淋巴细胞免疫球蛋白内毒素检查中的应用。在用鲎试剂检测细菌内毒素时 ,按中国药典的要求对鲎试剂灵敏度进行标定 ,并作干扰实验 (增强或抑制实验 ) ,然后用鲎试法与家兔法同时测定 15批抗淋巴细胞免疫球蛋白。结果发现三批鲎试剂的灵敏度标示值均正确 ,五批抗淋巴细胞免疫球蛋白半成品在最大有效稀释度 (MVD)时对试验无干扰 ,这两种方法测定结果的符合率达到 91.7%。从而表明鲎试法很有可能代替家兔法     

显色基质鲎试剂法在人血白蛋白热原检测中的应用

为了对显色基质法测定人血白蛋白中的内毒素含量方法进行探讨。以内毒素,鲎试剂及显色基质,在一定的条件下反应释放出对硝基苯胺(PNA),溶液呈现黄色,于波长545nm处比色读数,其产色深浅与内毒素浓度呈线性关系,从而定量测定出检品中内毒素含量。结果表明标准曲线的线性相关系数r≥0.98,人血白蛋白经3.3倍稀释后无干扰作用。显色基质法与家兔法比较,有灵敏、快速、能定量、重复性好的特点,可用于人血白蛋白内毒素含量的测定。     

DNA疫苗的细菌内毒素检测

目的 :考察DNA疫苗细菌内毒素的检查方法的可行性及DNA疫苗的干扰作用。方法 :干扰试验和对比试验。结果 :供试品阴性对照系列样品溶液无干扰作用 ,与家兔法结果一致。结论 :将疫苗稀释 2倍可用灵敏度为 0 5EU ml的鲎试剂作细菌内毒素检查。     

静脉注射用人免疫球蛋白细菌内毒素检测

探索静脉注射用人免疫球蛋白(IVIG)细菌内毒素含量的鲎试验检测方法。根据《中国药典》(2000版)细菌内毒素含量的检测方法进行,将待检品用NaOH调pH至中性,稀释至2.4倍可用标示灵敏度为0.25EU/m l的特异性鲎试剂进行细菌内毒素检测,结果与家兔法进行比较,并且在样品中加入定量内毒素0.6 EU/m l用两种方法进行对比试验。结果表明用细菌内毒素检测法(鲎试验法)检测静脉注射用人免疫球蛋白是可行的。     

Improvement of recombinant baculovirus infection efficiency to express manganese superoxide dismutase in silkworm larvae through dual promoters of Pph and Pp10

The silkworm, Bombyx mori, has been used as an important bioreactor for the production of recombinant proteins through baculovirus expression system (BES). There are several problems which will probably be the bottleneck for practical and industrial utilization of silkworm bioreactor. Traditionally, the recombinant virus should infect the larvae through individual dorsal injection by a syringe. This is a time- and labor-consuming procedure. This drawback has become a bottleneck for practical and industrial utilization of baculovirus expression system in the silkworm bioreactor. In this paper, we constructed a dual expression baculovirus to express the renovated polyhedron and target manganese superoxide dismutase (SOD) gene under P10 and polyhedron promoters, respectively, through oral infection. The results showed that the direct injection of recombinant rBacmid/BmNPV/SOD DNA with cellfectin reagent infected the silkworm larvae partially. When next batches of larvae were fed orally with hemolymph, which was collected from first batch of injected and infected larvae, the obvious symptom of infection was found and high target SOD was expressed. These results imply it is feasible to express target genes through combination of recombinant bacmid DNA injection and oral feeding by a dual expression bacmid baculovirus.     

Production of Classical Swine Fever Virus Envelope Glycoprotein E2 as Recombinant Polyhedra in Baculovirus-Infected Silkworm Larvae

Although, classical swine fever virus (CSFV) envelope glycoprotein E2 subunit vaccine has been developed using the baculovirus expression system, the expression of viral antigens in baculovirus-infected insect cells is often ineffective. Therefore, an alternative strategy to the traditional baculovirus expression system is needed that is more productive and effective. Here, we report a novel strategy for the large-scale production of a CSFV E2 in the larvae of a baculovirus-infected silkworm, Bombyx mori. We constructed a recombinant B. mori nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPV) that expressed recombinant polyhedra together with the N-terminal 179 amino acids of CSFV E2 (E2ΔC). BmNPV-E2ΔC-infected silkworm larvae expressed native polyhedrin and approximately 44-kDa fusion protein that was detected using both anti-polyhedrin and anti-CSFV E2 antibodies. Electron and confocal microscopy both demonstrated that the recombinant polyhedra contained both the fusion protein and native polyhedrin were morphologically normal and contained CSFV E2ΔC. The CSFV E2ΔC antigen produced in BmNPV-E2ΔC-infected silkworm larvae reached 0.68?mg/ml of hemolymph and 0.53?mg/larva at 6-days post-infection. Six-week-old female BALB/c mice that were immunized with the E2ΔC protein purified from solubilized recombinant polyhedra elicited CSFV E2 antibodies, which indicated that the CSFV E2ΔC protein from recombinant polyhedra was immunogenic. The virus neutralization test showed that the serum from mice that were treated with E2ΔC protein from recombinant polyhedra contained significant levels of virus neutralization activity. These results demonstrate that this strategy can be used for the large-scale production of CSFV E2 antigen.     

Endotoxin inactivating activity of rat serum

The ability of rat serum to inactivate endotoxin (LPS) was assessed with the aid of the limulus amebocyte lysate assay. Following the addition of various amounts of endotoxin to normal serum the mixture was incubated for 1 hr at 37 degrees C and the residual endotoxin activity determined. One milliliter of rat serum inactivated between 5 and 10 micrograms Escherichia coli LPS per hour. Heating serum for 45 min at 56 degrees C resulted in loss of 80-90% of the LPS inhibitor (LPSI) activity. Serum from cobra venom factor (CVF)-treated rats inactivated between 0.5 and 2.5 micrograms LPS/ml serum. Serum from tolerant rats, even after heating for 45 min at 56 degrees C, inactivates between 10 and 15 micrograms LPS/ml serum/hr; decomplemented tolerant rat serum neutralizes between 5 and 10 micrograms LPS/ml serum/hr. Clearly, the tolerant rat has large quantities of LPSI activity, which does not appear to be complement. The inhibitor found in tolerant rat serum is not species specific since it inactivates Salmonella minnesota and Salmonella typhimurium endotoxins to the same degree and in the same amount as E. coli endotoxin, the agent used to induce tolerance. Both heating serum (56 degrees C) and lead acetate reduce LPSI activity.     

Versatility of chitosan/BmNPV bacmid DNA nanocomplex as transfection reagent of recombinant protein expression in silkworm larvae

Objective

To examine the feasibility of chitosan as an alternative transfection reagent candidate for protein expression in Bm5 cells and silkworm larvae using recombinant BmNPV bacmid DNA.

Result

Chitosan 100 and recombinant Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPV) bacmid DNA, in amino group/phosphate group (N/P) ratios of 0.1–10, were used for formation of chitosan/DNA nanocomplexes. The chitosan/BmNPV bacmid DNA nanocomplexes showed higher specific activity of GFP_uv-β1,3-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase 2 (β3GnT2) fusion protein (GGT2) expressed in silkworm larvae than DMRIE-C, a conventional silkworm transfection reagent. In particular, the composition of chitosan and BmNPV bacmid DNA nanocomplexes formed by an N/P ratio of 8 or 10, respectively, showed the highest specific activity of β3GnT2 in the silkworm larvae hemolymph. In addition, three different proteins were expressed in silkworm larvae to the same extent using chitosan as that using DMRIE-C.

Conclusion

This is the first finding that chitosan/BmNPV bacmid DNA nanocomplexes can rival the performance of commercially available transfection reagents for the expression of recombinant proteins in Bm5 cells and silkworm larvae.

     

Production of porcine parvovirus virus-like particles using silkworm larvae

Porcine parvovirus (PPV) is a significant causative agent of porcine reproductive failure, causing serious economic losses in the swine industry. PPV is a nonenveloped virus, and its capsid is assembled from three viral proteins (VP1, VP2, and VP3). The major capsid protein, VP2, is the main target for PPV neutralizing antibodies and vaccine development. In this study, PPV-VP2 protein was expressed in silkworm larvae, and its antigenicity and production were compared with those in B. mori cells (Bm5). The recombinant VP2 protein was expressed successfully in silkworm larvae and Bm5 cells with a size of approximately 64 kDa. The formation of virus-like particles (VLPs) by recombinant PPV-VP2 was confirmed through transmission electron microscopy. The recombinant PPV-VP2 protein assembled into spherical particles with diameters ranging from 20 to 22 nm. The antigenicity of PPV-VLPs was comparatively analyzed between Bm5 cells and silkworm larvae by ELISA, hemagglutination and hemagglutination inhibition assays. Consequently, it was confirmed that the PPV-VLPs produced in the silkworm larvae were more antigenic than VLPs produced in Bm5 cells. Therefore, it is expected that economical and effective vaccine development will be possible by mass production of PPV-VLPs in silkworm larvae.     

Oral administration activity determination of recombinant osteoprotegerin from silkworm larvae

Osteoprotegerin (OPG) regulates the formation of osteoclasts and is involved in the regulation of bone resorption and remodeling. To investigate the feasibility of using silkworm (Bombyx mori) larvae to produce recombinant osteoprotegerin as a oral administration drug, the rh-OPG was expressed in the larvae of silkworm through the silkworm baculovirus expression system, and was orally administered to mice. Compared with the control, oral administration of rh-OPG was effective to decrease serum calcium concentration in normal mice, and block the bone loss induced by the loss of estrogen in ovariectomized mice. These results indicated that oral administration of rh-OPG expressed in silkworm larvae had the proper bioactivity.