H5亚型禽流感病毒HA基因昆虫/杆状病毒系统的表达及对BALB/c小鼠的免疫保护

经RT-PCR扩增了禽流感病毒A/Goose/Guangdong/1／96 H5N1亚型1．7kb HA基因的cDNA,将其克隆到pMD18-T中并测序。亚克隆到杆状病毒转移载体pMelBacA的蜜蜂蜂毒素分泌信号下游中,测序正确后与线性化的杆状病毒DNA(Bac-N-BlueTM DNA)共转染Sf9昆虫细胞。将重组杆状病毒感染HFive细胞,72h左右收获细胞,超声波裂解,SDS—PAGE结果表明HA基因在重组杆状病毒感染的HFive细胞中获得表达。蛋白胶薄层扫描分析显示:表达的HA蛋白占重组杆状病毒感染细胞总蛋白含量的17．1％。Western-blot 及血凝实验结果显示,表达的禽流感H5N1亚型病毒HA蛋白具有生物学活性。表达的H5 HA蛋白定量乳化后,皮下多点注射免疫SPF 级BALB/c雌性小鼠,免疫后产生了H5 HA特异抗体,并在三免前后达到并保持较高水平。用致死剂量的HPAIV H5N1攻击小鼠,免疫组小鼠提供了100％的保护力,而对照组小鼠先后发病且死亡:为研制禽流感H5N1亚型病毒亚单位疫苗,防制禽流感奠定了基础。     

铜绿假单胞菌注射液对H22小鼠移植瘤的辅助治疗效果

目的 研究铜绿假单胞菌注射液联合化疗对H22小鼠移植瘤的影响。方法 采用H22细胞株,移植53只BALB/c小鼠皮下。取肿块大小相对均匀的48只小鼠随机分成6组：空白对照、铜绿假单胞菌组、联合顺铂组、联合阿霉素组、顺铂组、阿霉素组,8只/组。连续给药14 d。结果 联合顺铂组、顺铂组的抑瘤率为49.2%、46.6%,联合阿霉素组、阿霉素组的抑瘤率为32.1%、19.8%。结论 铜绿假单胞菌注射液对H22小鼠移植瘤的阿霉素化疗有一定的增强效果。     

Membrane fusion: the process and its energy suppliers

Membrane fusion constitutes a pivotal process in eukaryotic cell physiology. Both specialized proteins and membrane lipids play key roles in fusion. Here, our current understanding of the mechanism of membrane fusion is reviewed. The focus is on the relatively simple and well-understood proteinaceous fusion machinery of enveloped viruses and the physical properties of lipids that appear to be of great relevance for fusion progression. Recent observations suggest that viral fusion proteins use packed conformational energy and bilayer-destabilizing domains to (i) bring participating membranes into intimate contact, (ii) merge proximal lipid monolayers through highly curved stalk/hemifusion intermediates, and (iii) generate a lipid-containing fusion pore, thereby terminating the fusion process. Received 4 January 2002; received after revision 3 April 2002; accepted 5 April 2002     

Prediction of a common neutralizing epitope of H5N1 avian influenza virus by in silico molecular docking

The H5N1 avian influenza virus (AIV) has widely spread in Asia, Europe and Africa, making a large amount of economic loss. Recently, our research group has screened a common neutralizing mono- clonal antibody named 8H5, which can neutralize almost all H5 subtype AIV ever isolated so far. Obvi- ously, this monoclonal antibody would benefit for research and development of the universal AIV vac- cine and design of the drug against H5N1 AIV in high mutation rate. In this study, the homology mod- eling was applied to generate the 3D structure of 8H5 Fab fragment, and "canonical structure" method was used to define the specified loop conformation of CDR regions. The model was subjected to en- ergy minimization in cvff force field with Discovery module in Insight II program. The resulting model has correct stereochemistry as gauged from the Ramachandran plot calculation and good 3D-structure compatibility as assessed by interaction energy analysis, solvent accessible surface (SAS) analysis, and Profiles-3D approach. Furthermore, the 8H5 Fab model was subjected to docking with three H5 subtype hemagglutinin (HA) structures deposited in PDB (ID No: 1jsm, 2ibx and 2fk0) respectively. The result indicates that the three docked complexes share a common binding interface, but differ in bind- ing angle related with HA structure similarity between viral subtypes. In the light of the three HA inter- faces with structural homology analysis, the common neutralizing epitope on HA recognized by 8H5 consists of 9 incontinuous amino acid residues: Asp68, Asn72, Glu112, Lys113, Ile114, Pro118, Ser120, Tyr137, Tyr252 (numbered as for 1jsm sequence). The primary purpose of the present work is to provide some insight into structure and binding details of a common neutralizing epitope of H5N1 AIV, thereby aiding in the structure-based design of universal AIV vaccines and anti-virus therapeutic drugs.     

鼠痘病毒TaqMan MGB 探针实时荧光定量PCＲ 快速检测方法的建立与应用研究

摘要: 目的建立快速、敏感、特异检测鼠痘病毒的TaqMan MGB 探针实时荧光定量PCＲ 方法。方法针对鼠痘病毒血凝素HA 基因设计特异性引物和探针,构建含有HA 基因的标准质粒进行定量分析,建立TaqMan MGB 探针实时荧光定量PCＲ 检测方法,评价其敏感性、特异性和稳定性。对临床标本中的鼠痘病毒进行检测。结果研究结果显示,建立的鼠痘病毒TaqMan MGB 探针实时荧光定量PCＲ 检测方法特异性为100%,与其他正痘病毒属病毒、非正痘病毒属病毒、细菌、真菌、寄生虫和细胞均无交叉反应。该技术灵敏度高,能精确定量检测鼠痘病毒DAN 线性范围达10 个数量级( 100—109 拷贝) ,最低检测限度为4 拷贝。该方法重复性非常好,组内变异系数和组间变异系数均小于3%。测试中相关系数、斜率和效率测量线性没有显著变化,表明该方法准确度高、精密度好。将其成功应用于临床标本中鼠痘病毒载量的定量检测,用普通PCＲ 和测序进行确证。整个检测过程可在2 h 内完成,可以用作快速诊断方法。结论本研究新建立的鼠痘病毒TaqMan MGB 探针实时荧光定量PCＲ 方法,具有快速简便、特异性强、灵敏度高的特性,适用于动物源性产品中鼠痘病毒检测、食品和药品安全检查、环境监测、流行病毒调查,为临床标本中鼠痘病毒的快速定量检测提供了一种特异有效的评价工具,值得推广应用。     

The mutation network for the hemagglutinin gene from the novel influenza A （H1N1 ） virus

A mutation network for the hemagglutinin gene （HA） of the novel type A （H1N1） influenza virus was constructed. Sequence homology analysis indicated that one HA sequence type from the viruses mainly isolated from Mexico was likely the original type in this epidemic. Based on the 658A and 1408T mutations in HA, the viruses evolving into this epidemic were divided into three categories, the Mexico, the transitional and the New York type. The three groups of viruses presented distinctive clustering features in their geographic distributions.     

中国大陆H9N2亚型禽流感病毒HA基因遗传分析及抗原相关性研究

为研究我国大陆H9N2亚型禽流感病毒血凝素(HA)基因的分子进化及抗原相关性, 本研究对来自15个省、市、自治区的34株H9N2亚型禽流感病毒的HA基因进行了测序及系统发育分析, 并采用交叉血凝抑制试验及交叉攻毒保护试验对不同遗传分支下毒株间抗原相关性进行了分析. 结果表明, 所有34个毒株HA基因均符合低致病性禽流感病毒的特征, 但毒株间变异程度增加. 系统发育分析表明, 我国大陆H9N2亚型禽流感病毒主要分为三个系列, 各系列内毒株没有明显的地区及时间特征. 抗原相关性研究表明, 不同遗传系列下的毒株其抗原相关性明显低于同一系列内部毒株间的抗原相关性, 说明我国H9N2亚型禽流感病毒抗原性差异较大. 此外, 本研究同时筛选得到了用于制备多价苗的代表毒株.     

Secondary structural analysis of the mRNA regions encoding the hemagglutinin cleavage site basic amino acids of the avian influenza virus H5N1 subtype samples

Here we report the codon bias and the mRNA secondary structural features of the hemagglutinin （HA） cleavage site basic amino acid regions of avian influenza virus H5N1 subtypes. We have developed a dynamic extended folding strategy to predict RNA secondary structure with RNAstructure 4.1 program in an iterative extension process. Statistical analysis of the sequences showed that the HA cleavage site basic amino acids favor the adenine-rich codons, and the corresponding mRNA fragments are mainly in the folding states of single-stranded loops. Our sequential and structural analyses showed that to prevent and control these highly pathogenic viruses, that is, to inhibit the gene expression of avian influenza virus H5N1 subtypes, we should consider the single-stranded loop regions of the HA cleavage site-coding sequences as the targets of RNA interference.     

Cloning and identification of measles virus receptor gene from marmoset cells

The measles virus (MV) strains with mutated hemagglutinin gene (ha) lost the capacity to infect its sensitive host cells (Vero cells), but it may infect the marmoset B-lymphoblastoid cell line B95a. From above, we can presume that there is a novel cellular receptor for those measles virus strains on B95a cell s. Using the yeast two-hybrid system, we screened and cloned a novel gene--bip (B-lympho- blastoid interaction protein of marmoset) from B95a cell cDNA library, which encoded a protein interacting with measles virus hemagglutinin protein (Ha). The bip cDNA was 1540 base pairs in length and contained a unique open rea ding frame (ORF) of 1011 base pairs encoding a transmembrane protein of 337 amino acid residues. The primary structure of amino acids residue is predicted that the Bip comprised a hydrophobic transmembrane domain and a hydrophobic leader region. The researches about the deletion mutants showed that the deletion of tran smembrane domain in Bip did not affect the interaction between Bip and Ha protei ns. Expression of bip in measles virus non-permissive cell line--CHO (Chinese hamster ovary) cells was performed to prove that CHO/Bip can be infected by meas les virus and then turned to the MV permissive cells. We concluded that the bip gene is a novel measles virus receptor gene in marmoset B-lymphoblastoid cells.