817 results about "High titer" patented technology

A process for enzymatic preparation of a highly linear poly(α 1, 3 glucan) from sucrose is disclosed. The glucosyltransferase enzyme (gtfJ) from Streptococcus salivarius is used to convert sucrose to a highly linear poly(α 1, 3 glucan) in high titers. Hydrolyzed poly(α 1, 3 glucan) is used as the primer for the gtfJ enzyme reaction resulting in the formation of highly linear poly(α 1, 3 glucan).

Disclosed are methods for the isolation and purification of high-titer recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) compositions. Also disclosed are methods for reducing or eliminating the concentration of helper adenovirus in rAAV samples. Methods are disclosed that provide highly-purified rAAV stocks having titers up to about 10<13 >particles/ml at particle-to-infectivity ratios of less than 100 in processes that are accomplished about 24 hours or less.

Provided herein are Cocal vesiculovirus envelope pseudotyped retroviral vectors that exhibit high titers, broad species and cell-type tropism, and improved serum stability. Disclosed Cocal vesiculovirus envelope pseudotyped retroviral vectors may be suitably employed for gene therapy applications and, in particular, for the ex vivo and in vivo delivery of a gene of interest to a wide variety of target cells.

The present invention is directed to an improved method of purifying virus, particularly reovirus. Infectious virus can be extracted from a cell culture with a detergent to produce high titers of virus, and the virus can then be purified by simple steps such as filtration and column chromatography. Viruses and compositions comprising the viruses prepared according to the present invention are also provided.

Lentiviral vectors modified at the 5′ LTR or both the 5′ and 3′ LTR are useful in the production of recombinant lentivirus vectors (See the Figure). Such vectors can be produced in the absence of a functional tat gene. Multiple transformation of the host cell with the vector carrying the transgene enhances virus production. The vectors can contain inducible or conditional promoters.

The present invention provides methods and compositions for producing high titer preparations of recombinant AAV ("rAAV") virions. The compositions of the present invention include AAV helper function systems and host cells. The present invention also includes methods of using AAV helper function vectors that effect the production of only small amounts of the long forms of Rep protein, and rAAV virions produced by such methods.

The invention provides a hybridoma cell line 1C11 and an anti-aflatoxin general monoclonal antibody secreted by the same as well as the applications thereof. The hybridoma cell line 1C11 can be used for preparing a high-titer aflatoxin antibody, and a mouse hydroperitoneum antibody is measured to reach 5.12*106 by using an ELISA (Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay). The anti-aflatoxin general monoclonal antibody has high sensitivity, respectively reaches the IC50 (50% inhibiting concentration) of aflatoxin B1, B2, G1 and G2 to be 1.2, 1.3, 2.2 and 18.0 pg/mL, is the antibody with highest sensitivity among currently reported four aflatoxin antibodies, is used for measuring the total aflatoxin amounts, i.e. the total amounts of the aflatoxin B1, B2, G1 and G2 and has great practical application values.

This invention relates to novel adenoviruses useful in the production of high titers of recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) comprising a foreign DNA insert and methods of making these adenoviruses. The adenovirus comprises the AAV rep gene in which the p5 promoter is replaced by a minimal promoter or by no promoter. The invention also provides methods of producing high levels of rAAV as a substantially homogenous preparation and composition of rAAV.

The present invention relates generally to the fields of gene therapy, immunology, and vaccine technology. More specifically, the invention relates to a novel system that can rapidly generate high titers of adenovirus vectors that are free of replication-competent adenovirus (RCA). Also provided are methods of generating these RCA-free adenoviral vectors, immunogenic or vaccine compositions comprising these RCA-free adenovirus vectors, methods of expressing a heterologous nucleic acid of interest in these adenovirus vectors and methods of eliciting immunogenic responses using these adenovirus vectors.

The invention discloses rhodococcus ruber and application of same as an immunologic adjuvant in preparing vaccine. The rhodococcus ruber is also called rhodococcus ruber RDC-01, and the preservation number is CGMCC (China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center) NO. 16640. The rhodococcus ruber disclosed by the invention has the function of increasing and regulating the body immunity andis capable of nonspecifically enhancing the activity of TB (Tuberculosis) lymphocyte, macrophagocyte and NK cells and inducing multiple cell factors such as interferon, and the rhodococcus ruber canbe used as the immunologic adjuvant after being inactivated so as to be added in an oil-adjuvant inactive vaccine, so that generation of an animal antibody induced by the vaccine can be obviously promoted; compared with single use of the oil-adjuvant inactive vaccine, a high-titre antibody can be generated, the use is safe, long-term and short-term toxic and side effects are not generated, and anapplication prospect in the field of preparation of vaccines for animals is good.

The invention relates to a single nucleic acid vector comprising both adenoviral and retroviral sequences for gene therapy. The vectors described herein (See FIG. 2) are capable of transducing all cis and trans components of a retroviral vector for the generation of high titer recombinant retroviral vectors. The chimeric vectors are used for the delivery and stable integration of therapeutic constructs and eliminate limitations currently encountered with in vivo gene transfer application.

The present invention relates to a low serum efficiency mycoplasma gallisepticam attenuated strain culture medium and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of veterinary biology. The culture medium comprises: (1) a base culture medium; and (2) an auxiliary culture medium, wherein the auxiliary culture medium mainly comprises MEM, yeast extract powder, tryptone, glucose, an inorganic salt, and the like, and growth, high titer and stability of the semi-finished product can be ensured with the auxiliary culture medium. According to the present invention, a titer of the semi-finished product bacterial liquid prepared by using the preparation method is up to 10<11> CCU/ml; and the culture medium adopts reduced pig serum to culture mycoplasma gallisepticam so as to reduce allergic stress reactions on chicken by heterologous pig serum, consider animal biosafety, improve antigen titer, and reduce production cost.

The present invention provides, in part, methods for recombinantly expressing proteins at a high level along with cell culture media for doing the same.

The present invention relates to a hybridoma cell line 3G1 and an anti-alfatoxin B1 monoclonal antibody produced by the hybridoma cell line 3G1. The hybridoma cell line 3G1 (CCTCCNO.C201014) can be used for preparation of a high titer anti-aflatoxin B1 monoclonal antibody, wherein an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method is adopted to determine a titer, and the titer is 6.40*10<6>. The anti-aflatoxin B1 monoclonal antibody of the present invention has characteristics of high sensitivity and good specificity, wherein 50% inhibiting concentration on aflatoxin B1 by the monoclonal antibody is 1.6 ng/mL, cross reaction rate with aflatoxin B2 is 6.4%, and cross reaction rates with aflatoxin G1 and G2 are less than 1%. In addition, the anti-aflatoxin B1 monoclonal antibody of the present invention can be used for determination of aflatoxin B1.

The present invention provides a process and methods for producing asymmetric antibodies in a mammalian expression system. The asymmetric antibodies are transiently or stably expressed and in cells that stably express the asymmetric antibody, following a rapid 2-step process of stable pool to clone, a highly pure asymmetric antibody expressing clone can be identified at a success frequency that permits for screening of tens of clones rather than thousands. The asymmetric antibodies are produced at a high titre and with a high level of purity with no contaminating homodimer antibodies following protein A purification with a step yield of near 100%. Typical downstream purification processes employ standard hydrophobic interaction chromatography (HIC) and/or cation exchange (CEX) resins and the antibody is stable within a wide dynamic range of buffer pH (4-8) and within the requirements for manufacturing antibodies for pre-clinical and clinical applications.

Systems for pathotropic (disease-seeking) targeted gene delivery are provided, including viral particles with extremely high titers. In particular, the viral particles are engineered to specifically deliver therapeutic or diagnostic agents to a disease site, such as cancer metastic sites. Personalized dosing regimens are also provided to treat diseases such as cancer efficaciously with reduced adverse side effects.

The invention discloses a pig foot-and-mouth disease virus O-type broad spectrum multi-epitope recombination antigen and application thereof and belongs to the field of biological vaccines. The pig foot-and-mouth disease virus O-type broad spectrum multi-epitope recombination antigen adopts a strategy of an antigenized antibody, after main antigen epitopes of a plurality of strains of pig foot-and-mouth disease virus O-type are connected in series reasonably, the plurality of strains of pig foot-and-mouth disease virus O-type are coupled with a pig intravenous gamma globulin (IgG) heavy chain constant region to construct the pig foot-and-mouth disease virus O-type broad spectrum multi-epitope recombination antigen, and after ration through a Bio-Rad protein ration kit, the pig foot-and-mouth disease virus O-type broad spectrum multi-epitope recombination antigen and recombination foot-and-mouth disease virus 3D protein are matched to prepare the vaccines. Animal immunity testing results show that the vaccines can stimulate an organism to generate high-titer protective antibodies when the vaccines are used independently or matched with the recombination foot-and-mouth disease virus 3D protein to be used, an antibody level is higher than a national standard, and good application prospects are achieved.

A method for treating or preventing infections from yeast of the Candida species is provided wherein an immunoglobulin composition containing high titers of antibodies to staphylococcal adhesins ClfA and SdrG is administered in an amount effective to inhibit the growth and progression of Candidial infections. The compositions and methods of the present invention are advantageous in that they can be used to treat both staphylococcal and Candidial infections at the same time, and they are particularly effective in treating or preventing late-onset sepsis in neonates.