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The invention relates to a high-activity recombinant XVII type collagen as well as a rapid preparation method and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of bioengineering. The amino acid sequence of the high-activity recombinant XVII type collagen is as shown in SEQ ID NO. 1, and the nucleotide sequence of the high-activity recombinant XVII type collagen is as shown in SEQ ID NO. 2. The invention also provides a preparation method and application of the recombinant XVII type collagen. The high-activity recombinant XVII type collagen has good biological activity, has good effects of promoting cell adhesion, cell proliferation and cell migration, and can be compounded with other proteins to form raw materials of tissue engineering products, cosmetics, health care products or medicines. The high-activity recombinant XVII type collagen gene is integrated to different positions of a yeast genome through three different vectors, and the copy number of a target gene is increased, so that the expression quantity of the recombinant XVII type collagen is remarkably increased, and the yield of the high-activity recombinant XVII type collagen is effectively increased.

The present disclosure provides systems and methods for processing cells. The systems of the present disclosure may include a compartment, a three-dimensional (3D) matrix, a fluid flow path, an analysis unit, a preservation unit, or any combination thereof. The methods of the present disclosure may process cells via, for example, expansion, culturing, gene delivery, activation, or any combination thereof. The systems and methods described herein may be useful for producing cell products including, for example, cell therapy products.

The present invention relates to T lymphocytes targeting CLD18A2 and a preparation method and application thereof. The inventors have successfully found a target gene CLD18A2 suitable for developing CAR T cells from a number of tumor-related genes for the first time, and successfully prepared CAR T cells targeting CLD18A2, thereby providing a new treatment method for pancreatic cancer, gastric cancer and other tumors.

The invention provides recombinant VIII type humanized collagen and application thereof, and the recombinant VIII type humanized collagen is of a triple helix structure, has good cell adhesion activity, does not generate immunological rejection and anaphylactic reaction when being applied to a human body, is a brand new human body synthetic biological material, and has good application prospects.

The invention relates to a development method of an insect culture medium, which comprises the following steps: S1, constructing a double-promoter tandem vector by taking pFastBac plasmid as a skeleton; s2, establishing a baculovirus expression system; S21, transforming the double-promoter tandem vector into DH10Bac escherichia coli, so as to obtain recombinant Bacmid; s22, transfecting an Sf9 cell by using the recombinant Bacmid, so as to obtain a P0-generation baculovirus; s23, transfecting an Sf9 cell by using the P0-generation baculovirus to obtain a P1-generation baculovirus; s3, screening insect culture media: S31, providing culture media to be detected, and respectively inoculating Sf9 cells into the culture media to be detected; s32, respectively inoculating the P0-generation baculovirus or the P1-generation baculovirus into each to-be-detected culture medium for culturing; and S33, after culture is finished, detecting virus antibodies in the culture media to be detected, and screening the culture media. A comprehensive and quantitative evaluation system is established for development of the insect culture medium.

The invention provides sgRNA for targeting and guiding nuclease to efficiently cut an HLA-DRA gene, a method for modifying a CAR-T cell by using the sgRNA, and a related gene editing system, reagent and kit. According to the CAR-T cell, the immunogenicity is greatly reduced, the risk of graft versus host disease and immunological rejection can be effectively reduced, and meanwhile the killing capacity of tumor cells of the CAR-T cell is not affected.

The invention belongs to the field of gene engineering. Specifically, the invention relates to a base editing system for optimizing engineered T cells and application of the base editing system. The present invention provides a base editing system for modifying engineered T cells, comprising: i) a base editing polypeptide, and / or an expression construct encoding a base editing polypeptide, the base editing polypeptide comprising a DNA binding protein and at least one deaminase domain; ii) a guide RNA, and / or an expression construct encoding a guide RNA, the guide RNA targeting any one of TRAC, TGFBR2, PD-1, CISH, and / or FAS genomic regions, or any combination thereof. The base editing system disclosed by the invention has high efficiency of a gene editing tool and low Indel frequency, can realize accurate editing of T cell function enhancement related genes, and has important value for expanding application scenes of a base editing technology in the fields of preparation of safe and efficient engineered T cells and the like.

The present invention relates to methods and compositions for reducing the immunogenicity of chimeric Notch receptors, and specifically to transcription factors useful for controlling gene expression delivered to tissues by such chimeric Notch receptors.

The invention belongs to the technical field of biological medicine and molecular biology, and particularly relates to a single-chain antibody targeting NRP1, a CAR-T cell and application of the single-chain antibody and the CAR-T cell in fibrosis treatment. Four types of high-affinity single-chain antibodies targeting mouse NRP1 antigens are obtained by immunizing mice, the single-chain antibodies are applied to second-generation CAR, T cells of mouse spleen sources are infected after virus packaging, and CAR-T cells are constructed. The CAR-T cells of the targeted NRP1 can be used for effectively killing NRP1 positive cells. In-vivo experiments show that the CAR-T cells can inhibit the growth of NRP1 positive tumor cells. The CAR-T cell can improve the mouse liver fibrosis condition, collagen in the mouse liver is reduced through treatment, and the molecular level of fibrosis markers SMA and NRP1 is reduced, it is indicated that the CAR-T cell recognizes and eliminates activated HSCs through targeting NRP1, and the fibrosis degree is reduced.

The present invention relates in part to nucleic acids encoding proteins, nucleic acids containing non-canonical nucleotides, therapeutics comprising nucleic acids, methods, kits, and devices for inducing cells to express proteins, methods, kits, and devices for transfecting, gene editing, and reprogramming cells, and cells, organisms, and therapeutics produced using these methods, kits, and devices. Methods for inducing cells to express proteins and for reprogramming and gene-editing cells using RNA are disclosed. Methods for producing cells from patient samples, cells produced using these methods, and therapeutics comprising cells produced using these methods are also disclosed.

The present disclosure describes methods for producing a comestible food base from expended cell culture media previously utilized during cultivation of a cell-based animal food product. Generally, the disclosed method comprises growing animal cells within a bioreactor system by circulating a cell culture media through the bioreactor system, extracting circulated cell culture media from the bioreactor system, and producing the comestible food base by integrating one or more supplemental ingredients with the extracted cell culture media.

The invention belongs to the field of gene engineering. Specifically, the invention relates to a system, a tool and a method for modifying or editing target nucleotide bases, and more specifically, the invention relates to an optimized QBE base editing system and application thereof. The base editing system disclosed by the invention has the advantages of high efficiency of a gene editing tool, high product purity, low Indel frequency, low off-target frequency and abundant gene editing windows, and has important value for expanding application scenes of a base editing technology in the fields of life science basic research, agriculture, biological medicine and the like.

The invention discloses a production process for culturing nuclear polyhedrosis virus by using an S2 or SF9 cell line. The preparation method comprises the following steps: connecting a cell-penetrating peptide C105Y with DSPE-PEG2000-Mal on the surface of a lipid nanoparticle, then preparing a lipid nanoparticle LNP-C105Y by using the DSPE-PEG2000-Mal, and entrapping nuclear polyhedrosis virus DNA to obtain DNAHcNPV LNP-C105Y; the DNAHcNPV coated LNP-C105Y is inoculated into an SF9 grassland spodoptera frugiperda cell line or an S2 fruit fly cell line to be cultured, and the nuclear polyhedrosis virus is produced. On the basis of the fall webworm nuclear polyhedrosis virus, DNAHcNPV-LNP-C105Y lipid nanoparticles are synthesized and prepared by adopting a film dispersion-extrusion method to wrap the fall webworm nuclear polyhedrosis virus, and the fall webworm nuclear polyhedrosis virus is produced by inoculating the fall webworm nuclear polyhedrosis virus to SF9 and S2 cell lines. The hyphantria cunea nuclear polyhedrosis virus production process is improved, and the defect that the hyphantria cunea nuclear polyhedrosis virus production process in the prior art cannot be separated from hyphantria cunea living body feeding is overcome.

The invention relates to the technical field of medicine screening, in particular to an active substance screening platform and application thereof. The active substance screening platform comprises a cell combination; the cell combination comprises immunoregulation screening cells and antioxidant screening cells; the immunoregulation screening cell is a mouse mononuclear macrophage RAW 264.7 carrying an NF-kappa B element conserved sequence and a reporter gene; the antioxidant screening cell is a porcine small intestine epithelial cell IPEC-J2 cell carrying an ARE element conserved sequence and a reporter gene. The invention provides a screening platform based on a specific cell combination, which can quickly obtain an active substance with immune regulation, antioxidation or two functions from a large number of candidate active substances, has the advantages of low cost and high efficiency, and has important application value.

Provided is a method for biosynthesis of a human structural material type XVII collagen. The collagen comprises the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 or a variant amino acid sequence after mutation of the amino acid sequence. The variant amino acid sequence retains the function of the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2. The collagen can promote cell adhesion and has a triple helix structure.

The present disclosure provides improved compositions for adoptive T cell therapies for treating, preventing, or ameliorating at least one symptom of a cancer, infectious disease, autoimmune disease, inflammatory disease, and immunodeficiency, or condition associated therewith.

The present disclosure relates to a protein-based article comprising a film having a thickness of about 0.1 μm to about 10 mm and comprising a crosslinked network of partially ordered polypeptides, wherein each partially ordered polypeptide independently comprises a plurality of disordered domains and a plurality of ordered domains, wherein each disordered domain independently comprises a PG or GP motif and each ordered domain independently comprises a polyalanine motif or a polyproline motif.

The present disclosure provides drug-responsive domains derived from human carbonic anhydrase 2 that can modulate the protein stability of human interleukin-15 (IL15) payloads, as well as compositions and methods of use thereof.

The invention relates to the technical field of synthetic biology, in particular to polypeptide with a triple helix structure, recombinant XII type humanized collagen and application of the recombinant XII type humanized collagen. The recombinant XII type humanized collagen is successfully expressed and prepared, has a triple-helix structure and good biological activity including promotion of cell proliferation activity, cell adhesion activity and inhibition of MMP-1, is used as a biological material derived from a human body, does not generate immunological rejection and anaphylactic reaction when applied to the human body, and has a good application prospect. The composition can be used for medical or non-medical application of a plurality of tissues and organs of a human body, filling, compatibilizing or repairing, and promotion of skin compactness or wrinkle resistance and other scenes.

The invention relates to the technical field of tumor immunotherapy, in particular to a dual-targeting chimeric antigen receptor, a recombinant expression vector, an anti-tumor natural killer cell and application, and provides a PD1-DAP10-41BB-P2A-NKG2D-Ig4-CD28-41BB-CD3 zeta fusion receptor.The dual-targeting chimeric antigen receptor can target PD-L1 on the surface of a tumor cell, can also recognize NKG2DLs and can be used for preparing anti-tumor natural killer cells. The broad spectrum of the NK cells is greatly improved, and meanwhile, the immune escape of tumor cells is also reduced.

The present disclosure provides anti-LILRB4 antibodies or antigen-binding fragments thereof, anti-LILRB4 chimeric antigen receptor proteins, isolated polynucleotides encoding them, pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, and uses thereof.

The invention discloses a gene-edited tumor infiltrating lymphocyte and a T cell receptor engineered T cell and application thereof in immunotherapy. According to the invention, NR4A1 and / or NR4A2 and / or NR4A3 genes are / is knocked out from tumor infiltrating lymphocytes or T cell receptor engineered T cells, so that the multiplication capacity and the anti-tumor capacity of the tumor infiltrating lymphocytes or T cell receptor engineered T cells are improved.

Provided herein are compositions, methods, and uses involving anti-Mucin-16 (MUC16) agents that immunospecifically bind an epitope of Mucin-16 (MUC16). Also provided herein are uses and methods for managing, treating, or preventing disorders, such as cancer and diseases associated with positive MUC16 expression.

Provided herein are cell surface receptors that include an extracellular binding domain, a transmembrane domain, an intracellular signaling domain, and a protease cleavage site disposed between the extracellular binding domain and the intracellular signaling domain. In certain aspects, the cell surface receptors are engineered cell surface receptors, such as chimeric antigen receptors (CARs). Also provided are cells that include such receptors (e.g., where the cells express the receptors on their surface) and pharmaceutical compositions including such cells. Nucleic acids that encode the cell surface receptors, cells including such nucleic acids, and pharmaceutical compositions including such cells, are also provided. Also provided are methods for regulating signaling of a cell surface receptor, and methods of using the cells of the present disclosure, including methods of using such cells to administer a regulatable cell-based therapy to an individual.

The present invention provides a hydrogel manufacturing apparatus capable of suppressing contamination of impurities from formation of a hydrogel until usage thereof. A hydrogel manufacturing apparatus (100) comprises: a first flow path (212) through which a hydrogel precursor flows; a second flow path (222) through which a gelling agent for gelling the hydrogel precursor flows; a first merging point (216) between the first flow path (212) and the second flow path (222); a housing container (400) for housing a hydrogel formed by contact between the hydrogel precursor and the gelling agent; and a hydrogel flow path (300) for connecting at least the housing container (400) and the first merging point (216) in a closed manner.

The present disclosure provides improved adoptive T cell therapy compositions for treating, preventing, or ameliorating at least one symptom of, or a condition associated with, cancer, an infectious disease, an autoimmune disease, an inflammatory disease, and an immune disorder.

The invention relates to a mesenchymal stem cell immunomodulatory function enhancing technology based on gene editing. The invention relates to the field of biomedical engineering and regenerative medicine, and particularly provides a method for enhancing the immune regulation function of mesenchymal stem cells through a CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology, and aims at up-regulating IDO1, IL-10 and other key genes in a targeted manner and remarkably improving the excessive immune response inhibition capability of MSCs. The technology can be used for developing high-efficiency and low-toxicity novel cell drugs for treating autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus.

The present invention provides humanized antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof that bind to human poliovirus (PVR), which are useful in treating tumors or cancer.

The present disclosure provides methods for genetically modifying lymphocytes and methods for performing adoptive cellular therapy that include transducing T cells and / or NK cells. The methods can include inhibitory RNA molecule(s) and / or engineered signaling polypeptides that can include a lymphoproliferative element, and / or a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), for example a microenvironment restricted biologic CAR (MRB-CAR). Additional elements of such engineered signaling polypeptides are provided herein, such as those that drive proliferation and regulatory elements therefor, as well as replication incompetent recombinant retroviral particles and packaging cell lines and methods of making the same. Numerous elements and methods for regulating transduced and / or genetically modified T cells and / or NK cells are provided, such as, for example, those including riboswitches, MRB-CARs, recognition domains, and / or pH-modulating agents.

The present invention shortens a period until an appropriate environmental parameter is obtained in a cell culture experiment.　According to the present invention, a control device sets a recipe for each cell sample, and controls a robot device to perform a culture experiment according to the recipe. A database device sequentially stores intermediate progress data for each sample during one culture experiment in which a culture result is determined. A recipe determination device analyzes tendencies of the culture on the basis of the intermediate progress data for each sample, and on the basis of the analysis result and difference as to time-series intermediate progress data of the sample, calculates posterior probability indicating a degree of probability leading to future success of the culture, with respect to values of a plurality of environmental parameters making up the recipe being set. The recipe determination device uses one or more environmental parameters having a relatively high posterior probability as a verification parameter, and modifies a value of the verification parameter for each sample to correct the recipe. The control device controls the robot device such that the experiment is continued according to the corrected recipe.