scholarly journals A Cassette Vector System for the Rapid Cloning and Production of Bispecific Tetravalent Antibodies

Antibodies ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie Claudia Pohl ◽  
Steffi Schwarz ◽  
André Frenzel ◽  
Thomas Schirrmann
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Xiao Lu ◽  
Shao-Zhen Zhao

Background: As one of the main blinding ocular diseases, corneal blindness resulted from neovascularization that disrupts the angiogenic privilege of corneal avascularity. Following neovascularization, inflammatory cells are infiltrating into cornea to strengthen corneal injury. How to maintain corneal angiogenic privilege to treat corneal disease has been investigated for decades. Methodology: Local administration of viral and non-viral-mediated anti-angiogenic factors reduces angiogenic protein expression in situ with limited or free of off-target effects upon gene delivery. Recently, Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) have been studied to treat corneal diseases. Once MSCs are manipulated to express certain genes of interest, they could achieve superior therapeutic efficacy after transplantation. Discussion: In the text, we first introduce the pathological development of corneal disease in the aspects of neovascularization and inflammation. We summarize how MSCs become an ideal candidate in cell therapy for treating injured cornea, focusing on cell biology, property and features. We provide an updated review of gene-based therapies in animals and preclinical studies in the aspects of controlling target gene expression, safety and efficacy. Gene transfer vectors are potent to induce candidate protein expression. Delivered by vectors, MSCs are equipped with certain characters by expressing a protein of interest, which facilitates better for MSC-mediated therapeutic intervention for the treatment of corneal disease. Conclusion: As the core of this review, we discuss how MSCs could be engineered to be vector system to achieve enhanced therapeutic efficiency after injection.


Vaccines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 350
Author(s):  
Zhanhui Wang ◽  
Mengyao Liu ◽  
Haoran Zhao ◽  
Pengpeng Wang ◽  
Wenge Ma ◽  
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Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is an important animal pathogen that affects cattle. Infections caused by the virus have resulted in substantial economic losses and outbreaks of BVDV are reported globally. Virus-like particles (VLPs) are promising vaccine technology largely due to their safety and strong ability to elicit robust immune responses. In this study, we developed a strategy to generate BVDV-VLPs using a baculovirus expression vector system (BEVS). We were able to assemble BVDV-VLPs composed of dimerized viral proteins E2 and Erns, and the VLPs were spherical particles with the diameters of about 50 nm. Mice immunized with 15 μg of VLPs adjuvanted with ISA201 elicited higher levels of E2-specific IgG, IgG1, and IgG2a antibodies as well as higher BVDV-neutralizing activity in comparison with controls. Re-stimulation of the splenocytes collected from mice immunized with VLPs led to significantly increased levels of CD3+CD4+T cells and CD3+CD8+T cells. In addition, the splenocytes showed dramatically enhanced proliferation and the secretion of Th1-associated IFN-γ and Th2-associated IL-4 compared to that of the unstimulated control group. Taken together, our data indicate that BVDV-VLPs efficiently induced BVDV-specific humoral and cellular immune responses in mice, showing a promising potential of developing BVDV-VLP-based vaccines for the prevention of BVDV infections.


2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 561-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ning Li ◽  
Deyi Yuan ◽  
Li-Jun Huang

1999 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 847-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taisuke HISATOMI ◽  
Kazutaka TAKAHASHI ◽  
Tetsuya OOMOTO ◽  
Yasunori YAMASHITA ◽  
Shu-ichi HASEGAWA ◽  
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Author(s):  
Lori Holle ◽  
Labri Hicks ◽  
Wendy Song ◽  
Eric Holle ◽  
Thomas Wagner ◽  
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