抗结核分枝杆菌疫苗的研究进展

结核病是由结核分枝杆菌感染引起的传染病,细胞免疫中的CD4+T细胞、CD8+T细胞、Th17细胞在对抗结核分枝杆菌感染中发挥重要作用,新近研究显示抗体特定的糖链修饰有助于清除病原体,提示体液免疫也可能参与免疫保护。目前使用的疫苗——卡介苗对婴幼儿重症结核病具有良好的保护力,但是对成人肺结核保护力欠佳,所以需要研发新的疫苗。目前已有数个新型疫苗进入临床试验。本文就结核分枝杆菌的免疫保护机制作一简要介绍,主要阐述现用疫苗——卡介苗及新型疫苗的研究现状,让读者对上述知识的进展有所了解。     

基因重组卡介苗活载体疫苗的研究进展

基因重组卡介苗（rBCG)是借助分子生物学技术,将外源基因导入BCG中构建而成的多价疫苗,rBCG可诱导长期的体液免疫和细胞免疫,初步的研究结果已显示出rBCG具有广阔的应用前景,有望发展成为一种经济有效的新型疫苗以预防传染病和一些肿瘤。     

全球结核病疫苗研究进展

本文旨在对全球结核病疫苗研究进展进行系统综述,描述国际上目前进入临床试验不同阶段的新型疫苗,包括重组卡介苗、亚单位疫苗、治疗性疫苗等,分析我国结核病疫苗研究现状,介绍国际研究发展趋势,如人类疫苗计划、全细胞疫苗、多阶段疫苗等,并对存在的问题和挑战进行讨论,展望未来发展趋势。     

mpt64-卡介苗重组疫苗的构建、免疫原性及抗结核作用

通过基因工程重组技术将结核分枝杆菌保护性抗原MPT64的编码基因与穿梭质粒载体pYUB295重组,采用电穿孔技术将重组质粒导入到卡介苗中,应用聚合酶链反应(PCR)扩增、聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳(PAGE)对mpt64-卡介苗重组疫苗鉴定:成功地构建了MPT64基因pYUB295重组质粒,MPT64蛋白在卡介苗中能分泌表达....     

卡介苗载体及其在疫苗研究中的应用

卡介苗是发展多价疫苗最好的载体之一.把外源基因导入卡介苗有3种途径:一是分枝杆菌噬菌体衍生的基因转移系统;二是分枝杆菌质粒衍生的基因转移系统;三是同源重组基因转移系统.重组卡介苗多价疫苗的研制为各种疾病的预防开辟了广阔的前景.     

乙型肝炎疫苗-卡介苗联合疫苗动物安全性试验研究

为评价乙型肝炎疫苗-卡介苗联合疫苗的安全性,分别给豚鼠皮下注射、小鼠皮内注射乙型肝炎疫苗-卡介苗联合疫苗或卡介苗,豚鼠每2周称体重一次,观察6周,解剖检查其病理变化;小鼠也进行病理检查。结果乙型肝炎疫苗-卡介苗联合疫苗接种组和卡介苗接种组的豚鼠体重均增加,疫苗注射局部及各脏器病理改变相似;小鼠接种局部皮肤病理改变也未见差异。结论为乙肝表面抗原(HBsAg)没有促使卡介苗毒力增强,乙型肝炎疫苗-卡介苗联合疫苗接种实验鼠是安全的。     

针对目标群体的新一代结核疫苗

每年,除了有数十万人由于HIV所造成的免疫损害而死于肺结核病(TB)以外,还有近两百万HIV阴性个体死于肺结核。尽管有可以应用的有效的药物和疫苗,比如在所有儿童疫苗中得到最广泛应用的卡介苗,但是这些死亡还是发生了。卡介苗的效力最好也不过是一变量,     

转基因番木瓜作为抗结核植物口服疫苗的初步研究

转基因植物疫苗的研制,可改变传统的疫苗接种方式和接种手段,大大降低疫苗的生产成本,具有广阔的应用前景。结核病的泛滥使抗结核的免疫预防急需开发新型的疫苗,研制抗结核的转基因植物疫苗具有重大的理论和实践意义。本文对具有良好免疫原性的结核杆菌分泌蛋白ESAT—6基因,进行了修饰改造,构建了带潮霉素选择抗性基因的植物表达载体和根癌农杆菌工程菌;采用叶盘法转化热带水果番木瓜,获得了13株抗性植株,通过PCR、Southern blot和RNA dot blot分子检测,确认了4株为转基因植株。番木瓜ESAT—6转基因植株的获得,为进一步的结核病植物口服疫苗的免疫研究和新型抗结核疫苗的研制与开发奠定了基础。     

乙型肝炎-卡介苗联合疫苗的研究进展

乙型肝炎疫苗和卡介苗均是我国常年生产和使用的生物制品,其安全性、有效性早已被证实。根据我国计划免疫规定,乙肝疫苗和卡介苗必须在新生儿出生后24h内接种。因诸多原因,不能简单地将现行2种疫苗混合使用,而须分2针接种。制备乙型肝炎-卡介苗联合疫苗,可以减少针次,降低副作用。动物试验显示,联合疫苗的免疫效果不低于2种单价疫苗。     

结核病免疫机制及疫苗研究进展

结核病是一种棘手的重大传染病.虽然存在一些有一定疗效的治疗药物,亦有预防性疫苗--卡介苗(BCG);但结核病仍在世界范围流行,且发病率和病死率居高不下.结核病的免疫病理机制及疫苗研究近年来取得了一定的进展.结核分枝杆菌通过Toll样受体(TLR)等模式识别受体,激活巨噬细胞的天然免疫反应,清除细菌和调节获得性免疫反应....     

Construction of a new food-grade expression system for <Emphasis Type="Italic">Bacillus subtilis</Emphasis> based on theta replication plasmids and auxotrophic complementation

A new food-grade expression system was constructed for Bacillus subtilis based on replicative food-grade expression plasmids and auxotrophic complementation. The food-grade B. subtilis host FG01 was created by knockout of the dal locus from the chromosome of B. subtilis 168. Two food-grade expression plasmids pXFGT03 and pXFGT05 were constructed by combining a novel theta-type Bacillus replicon with the B. subtilis endogenous gene dal and P43 promoter; while pXFGT05 was derived from pXFGT03 by deletion of two open reading frames (ORFs) from the original replicon. Upon transformation of FG01 with pXFGT03 or pXFGT05, the host phenotype was complemented on Luria–Bertani agar plates by the plasmid-coded dal gene, which served as a food-grade selection marker for recombinants. Results showed that deletion of the two ORFs had no impact on plasmid replication. A reporter gene bgaB was cloned into pXFGT03 and pXFGT05, respectively, under control of the P43 promoter, and it was successfully expressed in this food-grade expression system. Segregational stabilities of two recombinant plasmids were investigated, and they were fully stable.     

Two new <Emphasis Type="Italic">Corollospora</Emphasis> species and one new anamorph based on morphological and molecular data

Two new species of the genus Corollospora, namely, C. anglusa sp. nov. with its anamorph Varicosporina anglusa sp. nov. and C. portsaidica sp. nov., which were isolated from the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in Egypt, are described in this article based on morphological and molecular evidence. The two new species have one-septate ascospores. Corollospora anglusa resembles C. gracilis by having narrow one-septate hyaline ascospores; however, they differ in ascomata and ascospore dimensions and in pure culture characteristics. Single-ascospore culture of C. anglusa produces the conidia of its anamorph, whereas an anamorph has not been reported for C. gracilis. Varicosporina anglusa differs from the other two known Varicosporina species by having conidial branches that are filamentous, rectangularly branched, hypha like, and disarticulated into two- or one-celled fragments. Corollospora portsaidica is morphologically similar to C. cinnamomea, but the two species differ in the dimensions, shape, and ornamentation of the ascospores. The new Corollospora species were confirmed to be divergent from other similar Corollospora species based on phylogenetic analyses of partial sequences of the LSU rDNA region.     

Discrimination among <Emphasis Type="Italic">Bacillus thuringiensis</Emphasis> H serotypes,serovars and strains based on 16S rRNA, <Emphasis Type="Italic">gyrB</Emphasis> and <Emphasis Type="Italic">aroE</Emphasis> gene sequence analyses

Our aim was to investigate the capability of each of three genes, 16S rRNA, gyrB and aroE, to discriminate, first, among Bacillus thuringiensis H serotypes; second, among B. thuringiensis serovars from the same H serotype; and third, among B. thuringiensis strains from the same serovar. The 16S rRNA, gyrB and aroE genes were amplified from 21 B. thuringiensis H serotypes and their nucleotide sequences determined. Additional strains from four B. cereus sensu lato species were included for comparison purposes. These sequences were pair-wise compared and phylogenetic relationships were revealed. Each of the three genes under study could discriminate among B. thuringiensis H serotypes. The gyrB and aroE genes showed a discriminatory power among B. thuringiensis H serotypes up to nine fold greater than that of the 16S rRNA gene. The gyrB gene was retained for subsequent analyses to discriminate B. thuringiensis serovars from the same H serotype and to discriminate strains from same serovar. A total of 42 B. thuringiensis strains, which encompassed 25 serovars from 12 H serotypes, were analyzed. The gyrB gene nucleotide sequences were different enough as to be sufficient to discriminate among B. thuringiensis serovars from the same H serotype and among B. thuringiensis strains from the same serovar. Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.