239 results about "DNA replication" patented technology

Methods and compositions for identifying high-grade cervical disease in a patient sample are provided. The methods of the invention comprise detecting overexpression of at least one biomarker in a body sample, wherein the biomarker is selectively overexpressed in high-grade cervical disease. In particular claims, the body sample is a cervical smear or monolayer of cervical cells. The biomarkers of the invention include genes and proteins that are involved in cell cycle regulation, signal transduction, and DNA replication and transcription. In particular claims, the biomarker is an S-phase gene. In some aspects of the invention, overexpression of a biomarker of interest is detected at the protein level using biomarker-specific antibodies or at the nucleic acid level using nucleic acid hybridization techniques. Kits for practicing the methods of the invention are further provided.

A minicell display method has been developed which has significant advantages for screening peptide libraries for candidates that can bind and effectively modulate a particular biological process. The method, based on the small, anucleate minicell, has increased versatility in generating unique sequences to screen as well as increasing the size of the peptides to be screened. In vivo mutagenesis, at the level of protein synthesis, as well as DNA replication, increases diversification of the library to be screened and therefore substantially increases the number of potential peptides that can modulate a particular biological response or mechanism.

Screening methods for identifying patients with an increased likelihood of having ovarian cancer are provided. The screening methods involve the detection of expression of a plurality of biomarkers in a body sample, wherein overexpression of the biomarkers is indicative of an increased likelihood of having ovarian cancer. The screening methods may further comprise a two-step analysis. Biomarkers of interest include genes and proteins that are, for example, involved in defects in DNA replication/cell cycle control, cell growth and proliferation, escape from apoptosis, angiogenesis or lymphogenesis, or the mechanisms of cancer cell motility and invasion. In some aspects of the invention, expression of a biomarker is detected at the protein level using a biomarker-specific antibody or at the nucleic acid level using nucleic acid hybridization techniques. Methods for detecting ovarian cancer in patients are further disclosed herein. Kits for practicing the methods of the invention are further provided.

The invention provides a specific sgRNA combined with an immunogene to inhibit HBV replication, an expression vector thereof, and an application of the specific sgRNA and the expression vector. The sgRNA sequences of a human hepatitis B virogene suitable for CRISPR-Cas9 targeting editing and a PD-1 gene are designed, the plasmid vector of the sgRNA inhibiting HBV and PD-1 genes is constructed, and the plasmid vector and a nuclease gene expression vector are transferred to HBV transgenic mice, and can obviously inhibit HBV DNA replication. The gene expression vector prepared in the invention has the advantages of simple method steps, good sgRNA targeting property, and high CRISPR-Cas9 knockout efficiency. The sgRNAs specifically targeting the HBV and PD-1 genes can accurately splice the HBV and PD-1 genes, inhibit in vivo hepatitis B virus replication, and reduce the hepatitis B virus antigen expression.

The invention provides a theoretical design and technical design of cell-free protein synthesis for DNA replication, transcription and translation coupling, a preparation, a kit and a preparation method. Specifically, with the application of the in-vitro cell-free synthesis system provided by the invention, complex protein can be synthesized, and moreover, DNA and mRNA can be synthesized; and effective, high-throughput and quite convenient protein synthesis can be completed with the use of a DNA template by a minute quantity (nanogram-microgram).

The invention relates to application of diamine formyl dehydrogenated silybin serving as a medicament for curing viral hepatitis B, in particular to application of a flavonolignan of dehydrogenated silibinin esters of which the ring A and the ring E have diamine formyl-methoxyl substituents or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof in preparation of a medicament for clearing HBsAg and HBeAg and a medicament for inhibiting HBV DNA replication. The flavonolignan of dehydrogenated silibinin esters of which the ring A and the ring E have diamine formyl-methoxyl substituents has extremely high HBsAg and HBeAg inhibiting activities; when the flavonolignan of dehydrogenated silibinin esters of which the ring A and the ring E have diamine formyl-methoxyl substituents is at a concentration of 20 mu g/ml, the inhibition rates of the HBsAg and the HBeAg are respectively 94.4 percent and 95.7 percent which exceed 5.9 times and 5.7 times those of a positive control alpha-interferon; and simultaneously the inhibition rate of the HBV DNA is 99.7 percent when the flavonolignan of dehydrogenated silibinin esters of which the ring A and the ring E have diamine formyl-methoxyl substituents is at the same concentration, and the inhibition activity of the flavonolignan of dehydrogenated silibinin esters of which the ring A and the ring E have diamine formyl-methoxyl substituents is higher than that of lamivudine and the alpha-interferon. In summary, the flavonolignan of dehydrogenated silibinin esters of which the ring A and the ring E have diamine formyl-methoxyl substituents or the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof can be expected for preparing non-nucleoside medicaments for clearing the HBsAg and the HBeAg, inhibiting the HBV DNA replication, and curing the hepatitis B virus infection diseases.

The invention relates to the preparation of brominated flavanonollignan and an application in medicines for treating viral hepatitis B, in particular to a B cyclo-dioxane flavanonollignan compound and a preparation method thereof as well as the application of the compound or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof in the preparation of medicines for eliminating hepatitis B surface antigens (HBsAg) and hepatitis B e antigens (HBeAg) and medicines for inhibiting HBV DNA replication. The compound has obvious activity of inhibiting HBsAg and HBeAg, and the intensities of the compound for eliminating HBsAg and HBeAg under the concentration of 20 microgram/millimeter are respectively 2.1 times and 1.2 times larger than the corresponding activity of a positive control medicine alpha-interferon; meanwhile, the compound displays high inhibition ratio more than 57% on HBV DNA at the concentration. The results show that the favonolignan or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof can be expected to be used for preparing non-nucleoside type medicines for eliminating HBsAg and HBeAg, inhibiting HBV DNA replication and treating HBV infected diseases.

The invention relates to application of aromatic carbamoyl dehydro-silibinin as a medicament for treating viral hepatitis B, in particular to application of todehydro-silibinin flavonolignans with a ring A and a ring E which are substituted by double base aromatic carbamoyl methoxyl and pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for preparing medicaments for removing HBsAg and HBeAg and medicaments for inhibiting HBV DNA. The todehydro-silibinin flavonolignans has extremely obvious activity on inhibiting the HBsAG and the HBeAg, has the intensity of 46.2 percent and 68.9 percent for respectively removing the HBsAG and the HBeAg in the presence of the concentration of 100 microgram/milliliter, which is 2.9 times and 4.1 times higher than that of positive control medicament alpha-interferon, and has the inhibition ratio of 96 percent on HBV DNA in the presence of the concentration of 100 microgram/milliliter, which is higher than that of lamivudine and the alpha-interferon. Accordingly, the flavonolignans and the pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof can be expected to be used for preparing non-nucleoside medicaments applied for removing HBsAg and HBeAg, inhibiting HBV DNA replication and treating hepatitis B virus infection diseases.

The invention relates to application of ring A coupling flavonolignan in preparing medicaments for treating viral hepatitis B, in particular to application of a compound of the formula (1) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in preparing medicaments for clearing away HBsAg (Hepatitis B Surface Antigen) and HBeAg (Hepatitis B e Antigen) and suppressing the HBV (Hepatitis B Virus) DNA replication. The intensities of the flavonolignan for clearing away the HBsAg and the HBeAg are respectively 29.4 percent and 29.1 percent in the presence of a concentration of 20 micrograms/milliliter, which is respectively 1.8 times and 1.7 times of the corresponding activity of a positive control medicament (10,000 units/milliliter of alpha-interferon). What is even more exciting is that in the presence of the concentration, the suppression rate of the flavonolignan to the HBV DNA is higher than 83 percent, which is higher than that of Lamivudine which is a positive control and is 2.2 times of that of the alpha-interferon to the HBV DNA. Accordingly, the flavonolignan and the pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof are indicated to be capable of being expected to be used for preparing non-nucleoside medicaments for clearing away the HBsAg and the HBeAg, suppressing the HBV DNA replication and treating HBV infection diseases.

The invention relates to a use of lignanoid containing benzyloxy flavones in the preparation of drugs for treating viral hepatitis B, in particular to the use of a compound as shown in formula (1) or pharmaceutical salts thereof in the preparation of the drugs for eliminating hepatitis B virus surface antigen and hepatitis B e antigen and the drugs for suppressing HBV DNA replication, and the strength of eliminating HBsAg of flavonol lignanoid under the concentration of 20 mu g/ml is 50.8%, which is 3.2 times of the corresponding activity of a positive control drug; the activity of eliminating the HBeAg under the same concentration is equivalent to 10000 units/ml of alpha-interferon; simultaneously, the flavonol lignanoid shows nearly 60% of suppression rate to HBV DNA under the concentration, which is 1.6 times of the corresponding suppression rate of the alpha-interferon. The results show that the lignanoid containing the flavones or the pharmaceutical salts thereof are expected to be used for preparing the non-nucleoside drugs for eliminating the HBsAg and the HBeAg, suppressing the HBV DNA replication and treating hepatitis B virus infection diseases.

Disclosed are compositions and a method for of amplifying nucleic acid sequences useful for detecting the presence of molecules of interest. The method is useful for detecting specific nucleic acids in a sample with high specificity and sensitivity. The method also has an inherently low level of background signal. A preferred form of the method consists of a DNA ligation operation, an amplification operation, and a detection operation. The DNA ligation operation circularizes a specially designed nucleic acid probe molecule. This operation is dependent on hybridization of the probe to a target sequence and forms circular probe molecules in proportion to the amount of target sequence present in a sample. The amplification operation is rolling circle replication of the circularized probe. A single round of amplification using rolling circle replication results in a large amplification of the circularized probe sequences. Following rolling circle replication, the amplified probe sequences are detected and quantified using any of the conventional detection systems for nucleic acids such as detection of fluorescent labels, enzyme-linked detection systems, antibody-mediated label detection, and detection of radioactive labels. Because, the amplified product is directly proportional to the amount of target sequence present in a sample, quantitative measurements reliably represent the amount of a target sequence in a sample. Major advantages of this method are that the ligation step can be manipulated to obtain allelic discrimination, the DNA replication step is isothermal, and signals are strictly quantitative because the amplification reaction is linear and is catalyzed by a highly processive enzyme. In multiplex assays, the primer oligonucleotide used for the DNA polymerase reaction can be the same for all probes. Also described are modes of the method in which additional amplification is obtained using a cascade of strand displacement reactions.

The invention relates to application of ring E iodine substituted silybin in preparing medicaments for treating viral hepatitis B, in particular to application of a compound of a formula (1) and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in preparing medicaments for clearing away hepatitis B surface antigens (HBsAg) and hepatitis e antigens (HBeAg) and suppressing the HBV (Hepatitis B Virus) DNA replication. The compound has definite activity of suppressing the HBsAg and the HBeAg, and in the presence of a concentration of 100 micrograms/milliliter, the intensities of the compound for clearing away the HBsAg and the HBeAg are respectively 20.0 percent and 29.0 percent which exceed that of a positive control medicament (10,000 units/milliliter of alpha-interferon) by 24 percent and 72 percent. Meanwhile, in the presence of the concentration, the suppression ratio of the compound on the HBV DNA is 32.6 percent which is close to that of the alpha-interferon. Accordingly, the flavone lignan or the pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof are indicated to be capable of being used for preparing non-nucleoside medicaments for clearing away the HBsAg and the HBeAg, suppressing the HBV DNA replication and treating HBV infection diseases.

The invention relates to application of ring B ethyoxyl silybin in preparing medicaments for treating viral hepatitis B, in particular to application of ring B ethyoxyl substituted silybin ester or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in preparing medicaments for clearing away HBsAG (Hepatitis B Surface Antigen) and HBeAg (Hepatitis B e Antigen) and suppressing the HBV (Hepatitis B Virus) DNA replication. The compound has strong activity on suppressing the HBsAG and the HBeAg, and in the presence of a concentration of 20 micrograms/milliliter, the intensities for clearing the HBsAg and the HBeAg are respectively 64.6 percent and 44.8 percent which are 4.0 times and 2.7 times of that of alpha-interferon which is a positive control medicament. In the presence of the concentration, the suppression rate of the compound on the HBV DNA is 58.1 percent which is 1.5 times of the corresponding activity of the alpha-interferon. Accordingly, the flavonolignan or the pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof are indicated to simultaneously have strong efficacy on suppressing the HBsAg, the HBeAg and the HBV DNA and can be expected to be used for preparing non-nucleoside medicaments for treating HBV infection diseases.

The invention relates to application of E-ring demethoxy-silibinin for preparing medicaments for treating viral hepatitis B, and particularly to application of compound in formula (1) and pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for preparing medicaments for clearing HBsAg and HBeAg and suppressing HBV DNA replication. The invention has extremely superactive activity for suppressing the HBsAg and HBeAg; in the presence of the concentration of 20 microgram per millilitre, the intensities for clearing the HBsAg and HBeAg are 95.0% and 34.4% respectively, which are 5.9 and 2.0 times corresponding activity of a positive control medicament alpha-interferon; and it should be noticed that the suppression ratio of the medicament for HBV DNA at the concentration is about 91.5%, which is 13% higher than lamivudine and 2.4 times alpha-interferon suppression activity. In summary, the flavonolignans or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof can be prospectively used for preparing non-nucleoside medicaments for clearing the HBsAg and HBeAg, suppressing HBV DNA replication and treating hepatitis B virus infection disease.

The invention relates to application of B/E bi-methoxy silybin in preparing medicaments for treating viral hepatitis B, in particular to application of silybin ester substituted by the methoxy on the ring B and the ring E or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in preparing medicaments for clearing away HBsAg (Hepatitis B Surface Antigen) and HBeAg (Hepatitis B e Antigen) and suppressing the HBV (Hepatitis B Virus) DNA replication. The B/E bi-methoxy silybin has strong activity on suppressing the HBsAg and the HBeAg, and in the presence of a concentration of 20 micrograms/milliliter, the intensities for clearing away the HBsAg and the HBeAg are respectively 43.9 percent and 43.7 percent which are 2.7 times and 2.6 times of that of alpha-interferon which is a positive control medicament. In the presence of the concentration, the suppression ratio on the HBV DNA is 68.6 percent, and the suppression activity is 1.8 times of that of the alpha-interferon. Accordingly, the flavone lignan or the pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof are indicated to simultaneously have the effects of strongly suppressing the HBsAG, the HBeAg and the HBV DNA and can be expected to be used for preparing the non-nucleoside medicaments for treating HBV infection diseases.