scholarly journals Effect of the Concentration of Fetal Bovine Serum in a Culture Medium on the Susceptibility of Bombyx mori Cells to a Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus

1987 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hitoshi WATANABE
Keyword(s):  
Bombyx Mori ◽  
Bovine Serum ◽  
Culture Medium ◽  
Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus ◽  
Fetal Bovine Serum ◽  
Fetal Bovine ◽  
Polyhedrosis Virus ◽  
Nuclear Polyhedrosis

Adaptation of an Aedes aegypti cell line to hemolymph-free culture medium

1969 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 1197-1200 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. S. Sohi
Keyword(s):  
Aedes Aegypti ◽  
Bombyx Mori ◽  
Cell Line ◽  
Bovine Serum ◽  
Culture Medium ◽  
Fetal Bovine Serum ◽  
Free Medium ◽  
Antheraea Pernyi ◽  
Fetal Bovine ◽  
In The Beginning

Aedes aegypti cells (Grace's line) growing in a medium containing 5% Antheraea pernyi hemolymph (APH) and 5% fetal bovine serum (FBS) were adapted to a hemolymph-free medium. The quantity of APH was gradually substituted with an equal quantity of FBS over a 2-month period. The cells grew very slowly in the hemolymph-free medium in the beginning. However, they became adapted to it in another 8 months; after that they grew as well as the cells in medium supplemented with hemolymph.Also, these cells grew as well in medium containing Bombyx mori hemolymph as in medium enriched with APH.

scholarly journals Bombyx mori Pupae Efficiently Produce Recombinant AAV2/HBoV1 Vectors with a Bombyx mori Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus Expression System

Viruses ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 704
Author(s):  
Qian Yu ◽  
Pengfei Chang ◽  
Xiaoxuan Liu ◽  
Peng Lü ◽  
Qi Tang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Therapy ◽  
Bombyx Mori ◽  
Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus ◽  
Expression System ◽  
Efficient Production ◽  
Human Bocavirus ◽  
Adeno Associated Virus ◽  
Silkworm Pupae ◽  
Polyhedrosis Virus ◽  
Nuclear Polyhedrosis

Recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors have broad application prospects in the field of gene therapy. The establishment of low-cost and large-scale manufacturing is now the general agenda for industry. The baculovirus-insect cell/larva expression system has great potential for these applications due to its scalability and predictable biosafety. To establish a more efficient production system, Bombyx mori pupae were used as a new platform and infected with recombinant Bombyx mori nuclear polyhedrosis virus (BmNPV). The production of a chimeric recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) serotype 2/human bocavirus type-1 (HBoV1) vector was used to evaluate the efficiency of this new baculovirus expression vector (BEV)–insect expression system. For this purpose, we constructed two recombinant BmNPVs, which were named rBmNPV/AAV2Rep-HBoV1Cap and rBmNPV/AAV2ITR-eGFP. The yields of rAAV2/HBoV1 derived from the rBmNPV/AAV2Rep-HBoV1Cap and rBmNPV/AAV2ITR-eGFP co-infected BmN cells exceeded 2 × 104 vector genomes (VG) per cell. The rBmNPV/AAV2Rep-HBoV1Cap and rBmNPV/AAV2ITR-eGFP can express stably for at least five passages. Significantly, rAAV2/HBoV1 could be efficiently generated from BmNPV-infected silkworm larvae and pupae at average yields of 2.52 × 1012 VG/larva and 4.6 × 1012 VG/pupa, respectively. However, the vectors produced from the larvae and pupae had a high percentage of empty particles, which suggests that further optimization is required for this platform in the future. Our work shows that silkworm pupae, as an efficient bioreactor, have great potential for application in the production of gene therapy vectors.

Fetal bovine serum induces changes in fatty acid composition ofTrypanosoma cruziphosphoinositides

1995 ◽  
Vol 41 (10) ◽  
pp. 951-954 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Racagni ◽  
M. G. de Lema ◽  
G. Hernández ◽  
E. E. Machado-Domenech
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid Composition ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Trypanosoma Cruzi ◽  
Acid Composition ◽  
Bovine Serum ◽  
Culture Medium ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Fetal Bovine Serum ◽  
Fetal Bovine

Fetal bovine serum (FBS) is a necessary constituent of the culture media employed to foster the growth of Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigote forms. In different laboratories, the serum is used at final concentrations of 5 or 10%. We have normally supplemented the complex medium with 10% FBS. Under this condition we have described the fatty acid composition of the total lipids and of the phosphoinositide fractions. Additionally, we have reported the increase of polyphosphoinositides and phosphatidic acid after cholinergic stimulation. Since further attempts to reproduce these results with 5% FBS in the culture medium were not successful, the effect of the FBS concentration on the fatty acid composition of phospholipids from the T. cruzi epimastigote forms was thoroughly examined. This work showed that when the FBS concentration supplementing the culture medium was reduced from 10 to 5%, the fatty acid composition of the phosphoinositides was altered while the other major phospholipids were not significantly affected. The most relevant result was the decrease in the content of linoleic acid (18:2) and the increase of palmitoleic acid (16:1) in phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate. Phosphatidylinositol (PI) and phosphatidylinositol phosphate also exhibited similar changes in the same fatty acids. The C2fatty acid composition of the phosphoinositides, under the same conditions, is also reported here for the first time.Key words: Trypanosoma cruzi, fatty acids, phosphoinositides, fetal bovine serum, phospholipids.

Antibody Production in Silkworm Cells and Silkworm Larvae Infected with a Dual Recombinant Bombyx Mori Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus

1992 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 910-912 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich Reis ◽  
Barbara Blum ◽  
Bernd-Ulrich von Specht ◽  
Horst Domdey ◽  
John Collins
Keyword(s):  
Bombyx Mori ◽  
Antibody Production ◽  
Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus ◽  
Silkworm Larvae ◽  
Polyhedrosis Virus ◽  
Nuclear Polyhedrosis
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