504 results about "Secretory protein" patented technology

The invention relates to compositions and methods for the preparation, manufacture and therapeutic use of polynucleotides, primary transcripts and mmRNA molecules.

A method is disclosed for enhanced vaccination and genetic vaccination of mammals. The vaccination is accomplished by delivering molecules such as proteins and nucleic acids into skeletal muscle and other cells residing in the skeletal muscle in vivo. The protein or nucleic acid is first injected into the muscle at one or multiple sites. Immediately or shortly after injection, electrodes are placed flanking the injection site and a specific amount of electrical current is passed through the muscle. The electrical current makes the muscle permeable, thus allowing the pharmaceutical drug or nucleic acid to enter the cell. The efficiency of transfer permits robust immune responses using DNA vaccines and produces sufficient secreted proteins for systemic biological activity to be observed.

A method for identifying and isolating cells which produce secreted proteins. This method is based upon a specific characteristic or the expression level of the secreted protein by transiently capturing the secreted protein on the surface of an individual cell, allowing selection of rare cell clones from a heterogeneous population. Also provided is the use of this method to generate cells which produce a desired level of secreted protein or secreted protein of a particular characteristic(s), and organisms which possess such cells. In particular, the method allows rapid isolation of high expression recombinant antibody-producing cell lines, or may be applied directly to rapid isolation of specific hybridomas, or to the isolation of antibody-producing transgenic animals. This method is applicable for any cell which secretes protein.

A method of detecting and isolating cells that produce a secreted protein of interest (POI) that has a T cell receptor variable domain, comprising: a) constructing a cell line transiently or stably expressing a cell surface capture molecule, which binds the POI, by transfecting the cell line with a nucleic acid that encodes such cell surface capture molecule; b) transfecting said cell simultaneously or subsequently with a second nucleic acid that encodes a POI wherein such POI is secreted; c) detecting the surface-displayed POI by contacting the cells with a detection molecule, which binds the POI; and d) isolating cells based on the detection molecule.

The invention relates to immunogenic compositions comprising combinations of Chlamydia trachomatis antigens and their use in vaccines. The composition may comprise at least two components, one component of which comprises Chlamydia trachomatis antigens for eliciting a Chlamydia trachomatis specific TH1 immune response and another component of which comprises antigens for eliciting a Chlamydia trachomatis specific TH2 immune response. The invention further relates to an immunogenic composition comprising a Chlamydia trachomatis Type III secretion system (TTSS) regulatory protein and a Chlamydia trachomatis Type III secretion system (TTSS) secreted protein or a fragment thereof. The invention further relates to the use of combinations of adjuvants for use with antigens associated with a sexually transmissible disease, such as Chlamydia trachomatis antigens. Preferred adjuvant combinations include mineral salts, such as aluminium salts and oligonucleotides comprising a CpG motif. The invention further provides a combination of Chlamydia trachomatis antigens comprising a Chlamydia trachomatis antigen that is conserved over at least two serovars.

An early-onset method and kit for detecting renal tubular cell injury, using NGAL as an early urinary biomarker. NGAL is a small secreted polypeptide that is protease resistant and thus readily detected in urine following tubular cell injury. NGAL protein expression was mainly detected in the proximal tubule cells, which resembled a secreted protein with a punctate distribution in the cytoplasm. Apparent NGAL in urine correlates with the amount and duration of renal ischemia and nephrotoxicemia and is a diagnostic feature of tubular cell injury and renal failure. NGAL detection is also a useful marker for monitoring nephrotoxic side effects of drugs or other therapeutic agents.

The sequences of cDNAs encoding secreted proteins are disclosed. The cDNAs can be used to express secreted proteins or fragments thereof or to obtain antibodies capable of specifically binding to the secreted proteins. The cDNAs may also be used in diagnostic, forensic, gene therapy, and chromosome mapping procedures. The cDNAs may also be used to design expression vectors and secretion vectors.

Chimeric proteins are expressed, secreted or released by a bacterium to immunize against or treat a parasite, infectious disease or malignancy. The delivery vector may also be attenuated, non-pathogenic, low pathogenic, or a probiotic bacterium. The chimeric proteins include chimeras of, e.g., phage coat and/or colicin proteins, bacterial toxins and/or enzymes, autotransporter peptides, lytic peptides, multimerization domains, and/or membrane transducing (ferry) peptides. The active portion of the immunogenic chimeric proteins can include antigens against a wide range of parasites and infectious agents, cancers, Alzheimer's and Huntington's diseases, and have enhanced activity when secreted or released by the bacteria, and/or have direct anti-parasite or infectious agent activity. The activity of the secreted proteins is further increased by co-expression of a protease inhibitor that prevents degradation of the effector peptides. Addition of an antibody binding or antibody-degrading protein further prevents the premature elimination of the vector and enhances the immune response.

The invention discloses a bacillus subtilis strain capable of efficiently expressing an exogenous secretory proteinase. A bacillus subtilis host bacteria capable of expressing exogenous protein is disclosed. A gene apr of a bacillus subtilis alkaline protease, and a gene npr and a spore forming gene spoIIAC of a bacillus subtilis neutral metalloproteinase are knocked out, wherein the bacillus subtilis alkaline protease and the bacillus subtilis neutral metalloproteinase are two exocrine proteinases in the bacillus subtilis host bacteria. The obtained bacillus subtilis host bacteria can be used for high-yield exogenous proteinases by genetic engineering manners. Based on this, a genetically engineered bacterium secreting pullulanase is constructed and can produce the pullulanase with a high yield. The genetically engineered bacterium secreting has a wide development prospect in industrial production by fermentation industry research.

Provided are methods for selectively expressing therapeutic molecules, such as secretory proteins, antisense molecules and ribozymes, in the liver. The methods find use in treating hepatic diseases or conditions. The methods also find use in treating any disease or condition in which systemic administration of the therapeutic substance, for example, a secretory protein, is desired. The methods involve administering to a mammalian patient having a need for liver expression of a therapeutic molecule an AAV vector containing a therapeutically effective amount of the therapeutic molecule. Also provided are novel vectors employable in these methods.

The object of the present invention is to provide a method of producing a heterologous protein by making a coryneform bacterium to produce and efficiently extracellularly secrete (secreto-production) an industrially useful heterologous protein. According to the present invention, a genetic construct is used where a gene sequence encoding an intended protein which is ligated to the downstream of a sequence encoding the signal peptide derived from a coryneform bacterium, the gene construct is introduced into a mutant coryneform bacterium which has a capacity of secreting the heterologous protein at least 2-fold higher than the wild type Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13869, the mutant coryneform bacterium is cultured and the extracellularly released heterologous protein is recovered.

The invention relates to, in part, secreted proteins of bacterial pathogens and methods for their use. More specifically, the invention provides in part several new common secreted proteins for A/E pathogens. In some embodiments of the invention, these polypeptides and nucleic acid molecules encoding these polypeptides, or portions thereof, are useful as vaccines, diagnostics, or drug screening tools for A/E pathogenic infections, or as reagents.

The present invention discloses novel methods and omental, myocardial, liver, lung, renal, peritoneal, intestinal and pancreatic mesothelial cells which are useful for a number of procedures including drug discovery, co-culturing, cell therapy and bioassay. The invention provides a method for isolating these cells that improves upon the methods previously used and provides cells isolated in quantity. The present invention provides a list of secreted proteins from omentum mesothelial cells that can be utilized in the described cell based assays.

The invention discloses a bacillus licheniformis host bacterium BL10 with multiple gene deletion, the accession number of which is CCTCCNO:M2013400. The host bacterium derives from a bacillus licheniformis WX-02 which partially or completely has deletion of ten genes. The ten genes comprises eight protease genes (mpr encoding a metalloprotease; vpr encoding a serine protease; aprX encoding an intracellular serine protease; epr encoding a minimal extracellular protease; bpr encoding a bacillus peptidase F; wprA encoding a protease combined with cell walls; aprE encoding an extracellular alkaline serine protease; and bprA encoding a bacillus peptidase F) and two extracellular secretory protein genes (hag encoding flagellin; and amyL encoding alpha-amylase). The BL10 has completely no extracellular protease activity and can reduce the degradation effect of a protease on a target protein. When the target protein is expressed by the expression host, the expression level is higher, and the host bacterium benefits protein expression enhancement.

The sequences of cDNAs encoding secreted proteins are disclosed. The cDNAs can be used to express secreted proteins or fragments thereof or to obtain antibodies capable of specifically binding to the secreted proteins. The cDNAs may also be used in diagnostic, forensic, gene therapy, and chromosome mapping procedures. The cDNAs may also be used to design expression vectors and secretion vectors.

The invention discloses a preparation method for a PCV-II Cap protein monoclonal antibody, an antibody and application. The invention adopts ultracentrifuged and purified PCV-II as an immunogen to immunize a BALB/c mouse by the conventional method, takes spleen cells of the immunized BALB/c mouse to fuse with SP2/0 cells, obtains two strains of hybridoma cells secreting the PCV2-Cap protein monoclonal antibodies by indirect ELISA screening, respectively names the two strains of hybridoma cells as 8-60 and 10-48, identifies biological characteristics of the two strains 8-60 and 10-48, and usesthe two strains 8-60 and 10-48 as the first antibodies to establish an indirect immunofluorescence diagnostic method. The result of the indirect immunofluorescence diagnostic method is basically consistent with that of the PCR diagnostic method, and the positive and negative coincidence rates are respectively 93.75 percent and 100 percent so as to provide reference for preventing and treating theporcine circovirus disease.

The invention discloses a bacillus subtilis H8-3 and application thereof in preparation of a decomposed inoculant. The bacillus subtilis H8-3 is deposited with the CCTCC at Oct 21, 2013 in Hubei Wuhan university and is assigned the accession number CCTCC No:M 2013483. The bacillus subtilis H8-3 is high-temperature-resistant, can survive at 30-60 DEG C, is high in protease activity and is quick in growth. The decomposed inoculants prepared from the bacillus subtilis H8-3 is high-temperature-resistant and can secrete protease and lipase for high-efficiently fermenting animal wastes. Compost prepared through the decomposed inoculant is less in environmental pollution, is economical and is easy to use. When a product after compost treatment is subjected to subsequent treatment, the product can be employed as an organic fertilizer for achieving an object of turning waste into resources.