1094 results about "Virulence" patented technology

The invention relates to the technical field of porcine pseudorabies viruses (PRVs) and in particular relates to a porcine PRV variant PRV-ZJ01 with collection number of CGMCCNo.8170 and an application of the porcine PRV variant PRV-ZJ01 in preparation of vaccines. The porcine PRV variant PRV-ZJ01 has the beneficial effects that a water-soluble inactivated vaccine is prepared by adopting a PRV-ZJ01 variant virus solution and is subjected to a swine immune protection test with live vaccines of Bartha-K61, Bucharest and HB-98 strains and the results show that the inactivated vaccine of the ZJ01 strain has relatively high safety and has the immune protection efficiency obviously higher than that of immunity groups of the live vaccines of the Bartha-K61, Bucharest and HB-98 strains, and the live vaccines of the Bartha-K61, Bucharest and HB-98 strains can not provide full protection for the ZJ01 very virulent strain; the inactivated vaccine of ZJ01 has relatively good immune protection effects on the PRV variant and the traditional strains; infected with 10<6.0>TCID50 (Tissue culture infectious dose 50) / ml nasal drops of the PRV-ZJ01 variant, all the 85-day-old non-immune swine can become ill and die; results prove that the virulence of the virus strain is obviously enhanced, the antigenicity is varied and the virus strain has relatively good immunogenicity after being inactivated and can be used for research and development of the vaccine of the virus strain and the diagnostic methods.

The present invention relates to the use of the cyclic dinucleotide c-di-GMP and cyclic dinucleotide analogues thereof in a method for attenuating virulence of a microbial pathogen or for inhibiting or reducing colonization by a microbial pathogen. This method further inhibits microbial biofilm formation and is capable of treating bacterial infections. The microbial colonization or biofilm formation inhibited or reduced may be on the skin or on nasal or mucosal surface. The microbial colonization or biofilm formation inhibited can also be on the surfaces of medical devices, especially those in close contact with the patient, as well on the surfaces of industrial and construction material where microbial colonization and biofilm formation is of concern.

A live bacterium, having a DNA construct stabilized against transduction of other bacteria, having a promoter sequence and encoding a fusion peptide, comprising a bacterial secretion peptide portion and a non-bacterial immunogenic polypeptide portion, having a nucleotide sequence coding for the non-bacterial immunogenic polypeptide portion which has at least one codon optimized for bacterial expression. The bacterium has a secretion mechanism which interacts with at least the bacterial secretion peptide portion to cause a secretion of the fusion peptide from the bacterium, and a genetic virulence attenuating mutation. The bacterium is adapted to act as an animal vaccine, to transiently infect a tissue of the animal, and cause an immunity response to the non-bacterial immunogenic polypeptide portion in the animal to a non-bacterial organism associated with the non-bacterial immunogenic polypeptide portion.

The present invention relates to methods of imparting virus resistance to plants. In one aspect, this method involves silencing a gene encoding a translation initiation factor eIF4E in the plant. In another aspect, this method involves overexpressing a heterologous translation initiation factor eIF4E in a plant. The present invention further relates to a genetic construct containing a nucleic acid molecule encoding a heterologous translation initiation factor eIF4E, as well as to an expression system containing the genetic construct and a host cell transformed with the genetic construct. The present invention also relates to transgenic plants, seeds, and plant parts transformed with the genetic construct. The present invention also relates to an isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding a mutant translation initiation factor eIF4E that is effective in imparting virus resistance in plants. The present invention also relates to a mutant translation initiation factor eIF4E and a method for making the mutant.

Modified forms of naturally occurring bacteriocins, such as the R-type pyocins of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, are disclosed as are methods for producing them in GRAS organisms. The bacteriocins are modified at the ends of their tail fibers in a region responsible for binding specificity and affinity to their cognate binding partners, or receptors, such as those on the surface of bacteria. Methods for the use of the modified bacteriocins, such as to bind receptors, including virulence or fitness factors, on the surfaces of bacteria, are also described.