鸡减蛋综合征病毒DNA的基因文库构建和酶切位点分析

腺病毒载体已经成为基因工程疫苗及癌症、遗传病基因治疗的重要工具。腺病毒可分为哺乳动物腺病毒和禽腺病毒,禽腺病毒包括20多个血清型,分别归属于三个群:Ⅰ群为传统的禽腺病毒(FAV),Ⅱ群包括火鸡出血性肠炎病毒(HEV)等,Ⅲ群禽腺病毒为减蛋综合征病毒(EDSV)。这些病毒广泛地存在于多种禽类的呼吸道、消化道,大多呈显性或不显性感染。以禽类腺病毒为载体表达禽类重要病原的保护性抗原基因,构建多价(联)活载体基因工程疫苗,有其重要特点:腺病毒的某些毒株可以在禽体     

重组腺病毒载体疫苗黏膜免疫机制与途径研究

腺病毒作为载体具有许多优点,因此被广泛地应用于体外基因转导、体内接种疫苗和基因治疗等领域。近年来,国内外学者已经构建了表达不同抗原的腺病毒载体,如人(猿)免疫缺陷病毒Gag,pol,Nef,Env,狂犬病毒糖蛋白,登革热病毒包膜蛋白,乙型肝炎病毒表面抗原,丙型肝炎病毒E1、E2、core、NS3,麻疹病毒核衣壳、凝血素,呼吸道合胞病毒糖蛋白,2型单纯疱疹病毒糖蛋白B、炭疽杆菌保护性抗原等。其中有不少载体疫苗通过黏膜免疫接种,诱导机体产生具有保护作用的免疫反应。本文就重组腺病毒载体疫苗黏膜免疫机制和黏膜免疫途径的研究作一回顾。     

猴腺病毒研究进展

猴腺病毒（simian adenovirus,SAdV）是猴类呼吸道和消化道的常在病毒之一,可引起肺炎、咽炎、肠胃炎、结膜炎等以粪口途径传播为主,主要感染猕猴、非洲绿猴、黑猩猩和狒狒等[1]属腺病毒科,哺乳动物腺病毒属。有学者认为SAdV感染有严格的种属特异性,也有报道认为其种间交叉传播在非人灵长类中可能普遍发生,是动物传染病似的感染。SAdV是否感染人类尚未见报道,但已从猴的分泌物中发现了可能和人腺病毒（humanadenovirus,HAdV）发生重组的新型腺病毒。SAdV与HAdV亲缘关系很近,感染引起的临床症状也相似,是人腺病毒研究的理想模型。目前已经制定了研发猴腺病毒模型的目标,用于研究感染机制,促进腺病毒基因治疗和疫苗开发进程[3]。但猴腺病毒自然感染流行情况的研究依然很少。本文将就SAdV的发现与分类、生物学特性、感染特点及检测方法做一综述,为研究者提供一些有用参考。     

腺病毒载体在肿瘤靶向性基因治疗中的应用

近年来,腺病毒载体广泛应用于恶性肿瘤的靶向性基因治疗。对传统腺病毒载体的改造主要有以下策略：(1)通过改变腺病毒的嗜性(tropism),使之具有感染宿主细胞的靶向性;(2)在转录水平控制外源性基因的表达;(3)可选择性裂解肿瘤细胞的有复制能力的腺病毒(replication-competent adenovirus,RCA)。更多安全、高效的靶向性腺病毒载体将应用于肿瘤基因治疗中。     

腺病毒载体衣壳蛋白质的遗传修饰

腺病毒载体是最早用于基因治疗研究的病毒载体之一,也是目前肿瘤基因治疗中最为常见的病毒载体之一,其主要通过靶细胞表面的天然柯萨奇腺病毒受体(coxsackie and adenovirus receptor,CAR)感染宿主细胞。由于大多数肿瘤细胞表面该受体表达水平较低,降低了腺病毒载体对靶细胞的感染效率,从而制约了腺病毒载体在肿瘤基因治疗中的应用。因此,如何提高腺病毒载体对靶细胞的感染效率是腺病毒载体应用于肿瘤基因治疗的关键。目前对腺病毒载体衣壳蛋白质(capsid protein)的遗传修饰是提高其对宿主细胞感染效率的主要途径。本文将对这一领域的主要研究进展作一综述,为该方面的研究提供有用的信息。     

辅助病毒依赖型腺病毒载体研究进展

摘要：辅助病毒依赖型腺病毒载体（helper-dependent adenoviral vector,HDAd）缺乏所有腺病毒的编码序列,与非复制型的第一代腺病毒载体（first-generation adenovirus vector,FGAd）相比,具有载体免疫原性低、安全、转移容量大和持续表达等特点,现广泛用于遗传性疾病、神经退行性疾病和肿瘤等的基因治疗和特异性靶向治疗研究。本文综述了HDAd构建和应用等方面的研究进展及未来的发展方向。     

基因治疗怎样避免免疫反应

基因治疗怎样避免免疫反应基因治疗是常用没有复制能力的残损病毒如工程腺病毒作载体把治疗用的基因导入患者细胞的,但免疫系统不能区别残损病毒与完整病毒,会杀灭所有已受工程腺病毒感染的细胞,而且,免疫反应还产生中和腺病毒的抗体,所以,免疫反应是基因治疗的最大...     

表达SIV Gag/Env基因的DNA疫苗、重组腺病毒和重组痘苗病毒三载体疫苗联合免疫小鼠的细胞免疫研究

获得性免疫缺陷综合征即艾滋病是人类面临的严重公共卫生威胁,目前常用的药物疗法仍存在一定的缺陷,尚不能彻底治愈AIDS并阻断HIV的传播。将治疗型疫苗用于HIV感染的治疗具有一定的发展潜力,但缺乏适宜的HIV感染动物模型阻碍了治疗型HIV疫苗的研制。SIV能够感染非人灵长动物并引起类似AIDS的猴免疫缺陷病,因而常被用作研究HIV及其疫苗的替代动物模型。为了对SIV疫苗在猴感染模型中治疗SIV感染的效果进行评价,我们分别构建了表达SIV gag和env基因的DNA疫苗、重组腺病毒和重组痘苗病毒疫苗,并联合使用这三种疫苗免疫小鼠,对包括不同抗原组合、不同免疫次序及间隔的免疫策略进行探索和优化。IFN-γ酶联免疫斑点和小鼠体内杀伤试验的结果显示,通过三载体疫苗联合免疫,能够在小鼠体内诱导出强度较高、持续时间较长的SIV Gag/Env特异性细胞免疫反应。并且,重复免疫后仍可以诱导较高水平的免疫反应。该结果为在SIV感染猴模型中评价多载体疫苗序贯和重复免疫治疗SIV感染的研究奠定了基础,也为治疗型HIV疫苗的研究提供了参考。     

E1/E3缺失型腺病毒载体引起细胞周期G_2/M阻滞

腺病毒载体广泛应用于基因治疗和转基因研究 ,目前常用的E1 E3缺失型复制缺陷腺病毒载体虽然失去了病毒复制必需的E1基因 ,但载体上的其它病毒基因仍能在宿主细胞内表达 .为研究这些基因对细胞的毒性作用 ,选择了 3种携带没有明显细胞毒性外源基因的腺病毒载体 ,观察感染 2种肿瘤细胞后细胞核形态改变 ,并用流式细胞仪检测细胞周期及凋亡情况 .发现大剂量重组缺陷型腺病毒感染细胞后引起细胞变圆 ,核增大 ,细胞周期阻滞于G2 M期 ,继而染色质凝聚 ,细胞发生坏死或凋亡 ;各种腺病毒载体造成G2 M阻滞所需感染量不同 ,但都随时间延长和感染量增加而加重 .这些结果提示腺病毒基因对细胞的影响是多方面的 ,在以此类病毒载体进行基因转移和基因治疗的研究中 ,精确滴定病毒滴度和转导效率非常重要 ,腺病毒基因表达造成的毒副作用给此类研究增加了变数     

乙型肝炎病毒重组腺病毒载体疫苗的免疫研究进展

以人类腺病毒（Ａｄ）为表达载体发展多价展组口服活疫苗,尤其在乙型肝炎病毒（ＨＢＶ）疫苗研制上成效显著,表达ＨＢｃＡｇ,ＨＢｅＡｇ和ＨＢｓＡｇ的重组人类Ａｄ７型（ｄ７）活载体疫苗在实验动物免疫上取得良好效果。在重组Ａｄ活载体疫苗研制方面是一项重大进展,表达ＨＢｓＡｇ的重组Ａｄ７活载体口服疫苗已有人体初次免疫试验的报道。     

A Unique Protease Cleavage Site Predicted in the Spike Protein of the Novel Pneumonia Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Potentially Related to Viral Transmissibility

正Dear Editor,In December 2019, a novel human coronavirus caused an epidemic of severe pneumonia(Coronavirus Disease 2019,COVID-19) in Wuhan, Hubei, China(Wu et al. 2020; Zhu et al. 2020). So far, this virus has spread to all areas of China and even to other countries. The epidemic has caused 67,102 confirmed infections with 1526 fatal cases     

Curcuminoids as inhibitors of thioredoxin reductase: A receptor based pharmacophore study with distance mapping of the active site

Curcumin is the yellow pigment of turmeric that interacts irreversibly forming an adduct with thioredoxin reductase (TrxR), an enzyme responsible for redox control of cell and defence against oxidative stress. Docking at both the active sites of TrxR was performed to compare the potency of three naturally occurring curcuminoids, namely curcumin, demethoxy curcumin and bis-demethoxy curcumin. Results show that active sites of TrxR occur at the junction of E and F chains. Volume and area of both cavities is predicted. It has been concluded by distance mapping of the most active conformations that Se atom of catalytic residue SeCYS498, is at a distance of 3.56 from C13 of demethoxy curcumin at the E chain active site, whereas C13 carbon atom forms adduct with Se atom of SeCys 498. We report that at least one methoxy group in curcuminoids is necessary for interation with catalytic residues of thioredoxin. Pharmacophore of both active sites of the TrxR receptor for curcumin and demethoxy curcumin molecules has been drawn and proposed for design and synthesis of most probable potent antiproliferative synthetic drugs.     

Comparative morphology of the carpel in the Liliaceae: Hewardieae, Petrosavieae, and Tricyrteae

The young pistils in the melanthioid tribes, Hewardieae, Petrosavieae and Tricyrteae, are uniformly tricarpellate and syncarpous. They lack raphide idioblasts. All are multiovulate, with bitegmic ovules. The Petrosavieae are marked by the presence of septal glands and incomplete syncarpy. Tepals and stamens adhere to the ovary in the Hewardieae and the Petrosavieae but not in the Tricyrteae. Two vascular bundles occur in the stamens of the Hewartlieae and Tricyrtis latifolia. Ventral bundles in the upper part of the ovary of the Hewardieae are continuous with compound septal bundles and placental bundles in the lower part. Putative ventral bundles occur in the alternate position in the Tricyrteae and putative placental bundles in the opposite. position in the Petrosavieae. The dichtomously branched stigma in each carpel of the Tricyrteae is supplied by a bifurcated dorsal bundle.     

Enterovirus 71 3C proteolytically processes the histone H3 N-terminal tail during infection

Highlights
1. The N-terminal tail of histone H3 is specifically cleaved during EV71 infection.
2. Viral protease 3C is identified as a protease responsible for proteolytically processing the N-terminal H3 tail.
3. Our finding reveals a new epigenetic regulatory mechanism for Enterovirus 71 in virus-host interactions.     

Detection of EBV and HHV6 in the Brain Tissue of Patients with Rasmussen’s Encephalitis

Rasmussen’s encephalitis (RE) is a rare pediatric neurological disorder, and the exact etiology is not clear. Viral infection may be involved in the pathogenesis of RE, but conflicting results have reported. In this study, we evaluated the expression of both Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and human herpes virus (HHV) 6 antigens in brain sections from 30 patients with RE and 16 control individuals by immunohistochemistry. In the RE group, EBV and HHV6 antigens were detected in 56.7% (17/30) and 50% (15/30) of individuals, respectively. In contrast, no detectable EBV and HHV6 antigen expression was found in brain tissues of the control group. The co-expression of EBV and HHV6 was detected in 20.0% (6/30) of individuals. In particular, a 4-year-old boy had a typical clinical course, including a medical history of viral encephalitis, intractable epilepsy, and hemispheric atrophy. The co-expression of EBV and HHV6 was detected in neurons and astrocytes in the brain tissue, accompanied by a high frequency of CD8⁺ T cells. Our results suggest that EBV and HHV6 infection and the activation of CD8⁺ T cells are involved in the pathogenesis of RE.     

Perinatal Vertical Transmission of Chikungunya Virus in Ruili,a Town on the Border between China and Myanmar

正Dear Editor,Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an arbovirus in the family of Togaviridae, genus Alphavirus, is transmitted by the A.aegyptii or A. albopictus mosquito, and causes disease in humans characterized by fever, rash, and arthralgia (Silva and Dermody 2017; Suhrbier 2019). It was first reported in 1953 in Tanzania, and caused only a few outbreaks and sporadic cases in Africa and Asia in last century. However, in the epidemic in 2004, CHIKV acquired mutations that conferred enhanced transmission by the A. albopictus mosquito(Schuffenecker et al. 2006). Since then, it has successively caused outbreaks in Africa, the Indian Ocean, South East Asia, the South America, and Europe (Zeller et al. 2016).     

Development of a Novel Reverse Transcription Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Method for Rapid Detection of SARS-CoV-2

In conclusion, the novel visual RT-LAMP assay is a simple, rapid, and sensitive approach for detection of SARS-CoV-2, and it is ready for application in primary care and community hospitals or health care centers, and even patients' own houses in response to the current SARS-CoV-2 epidemic because the assay does not require sophisticated equipment and skilled personnel. Furthermore, it is also ready to be used in fields for screening samples from wild animals and environments to facilitate the identification of potential intermediate hosts that mediate the cross-species transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from bats to humans.