hepatitis c/potato

The immunogenic properties of chimeric potato virus X (PVX) particles engineered to display the synthetic R9 peptide have been evaluated. The R9 peptide is a consensus sequence derived from diverse variants of the hypervariable region 1 from the hepatitis C virus (HCV) envelope protein E2. Two

BACKGROUND Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is major cause of liver cirrhosis in humans. HCV capsid (core) protein (HCVcp) is a highly demanded antigen for various diagnostic, immunization and pathogenesis studies. Plants are considered as an expression system for producing safe and inexpensive

BACKGROUND Plants transformed by virus-based vectors have emerged as promising tools to rapidly express large amounts and inexpensive antigens in transient condition. OBJECTIVE We studied the possibility of transient-expression of an HBsAg-fused polytopic construct (HCVpc) [containing H-2d and

Although cloned viral ORFeomes are particularly well suited for genome-wide interaction mapping due to the limited size of viral genomes, only a few such studies have been published. Here, we summarize virus interaction mapping projects involving vaccinia virus, hepatitis C virus (HCV), potato virus

Representative amino acid sequences of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerases of all groups of positive-strand RNA viruses were aligned hierarchiacally, starting with the most closely related ones. This resulted in delineation of three large supergroups. Within each of the supergroups, the sequences of

Among forty endophytic fungal isolates derived from the mangrove plant Avicennia marina, thirty-seven isolates (92.5 %) shown vary antimycotic activity against clinical Trichophyton, Microsporum, and Epidermophyton isolates. The hyperactive wild antagonistic strains Acremonium sp. MERV1 and