Incorporation of biomolecular epitopes to malarial antigens should be explored in the development of straintranscending malarial *** present study sought to determine safety,immunogenicity and cross-species efficacy o...
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Incorporation of biomolecular epitopes to malarial antigens should be explored in the development of straintranscending malarial *** present study sought to determine safety,immunogenicity and cross-species efficacy of Plasmodium falciparum serine repeat antigen 5 polypeptide co-expressed with epitopes of BacilleCalmette Guerin(BCG),tetanus toxoid(TT) and a chemokine *** baboons and BALB/c mice were randomly assigned into vaccine and control *** vaccine group animals were primed and boosted twice with pIres plasmids encoding the SERA5 + BCG + TT alone,or with either CCL5 or CCL20 and the control group with pIres plasmid vector *** and baboons were challenged with *** ANKA and *** H strain parasites,*** was determined by observing for injection sites reactogenicities,hematology and clinical *** and survivorship profiles were used to determine cross-species efficacy,and T cell phenotypes,Th1-,Th2-type,T-regulatory immune responses and antibody responses were assessed to determine vaccine *** pSeBCGTT plasmid DNA vaccines were safe and induced Thl-,Th2-type,and Tregulatory responses vaccinated animals showed enhanced CD4~+(P〈0.01),CD 8~+ T cells(P〈 0.001) activation and IgG anti-SE36 antibodies responses(P〈 0.001) at week 4 and 8 post vaccination compared to the control *** mice had a 31.45-68.69%cumulative parasite load reduction and 60%suppression in baboons(P〈0.05)and enhanced survivorship(P〈 0.001) with no clinical signs of malaria compared to the control *** results showed that the vaccines were safe,immunogenic and conferred partial cross-species protection.
<正>Recent accumulating evidence suggests that both Eph and Trk receptors play important roles at the neuromuscular junctions (NMJ). The identification of ARMS (ankyrin repeat-rich membrane spanning) as a novel ...
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<正>Recent accumulating evidence suggests that both Eph and Trk receptors play important roles at the neuromuscular junctions (NMJ). The identification of ARMS (ankyrin repeat-rich membrane spanning) as a novel substrate for these receptors prompted us to investigate the potential functions of ARMS at the NMJ. In this study, we showed that ARMS was expressed in developing muscle and became concentrated at the NMJ during the first postnatal week. Using yeast two-hybrid screening, we identified the PDZ domain protein α-syntrophin as an ARMS-interacting partner in muscle. The expression profile of α-syntrophin in muscle was similar to that exhibited by ARMS and EphA4. Interestingly, overexpression of α-syntrophin induced ARMS clustering in a PDZ-dependent manner. Moreover, only α- and β2-syntrophins, but not β1 syntrophin, were able to interact with ARMS and induce the formation of ARMS clusters. In an attempt to identify other components of the ARMS/syntrophin complex, we found that ARMS associated with EphA4 and that this interaction resulted in an enhanced Jak and Stat tyrosine phosphorylation, which was further augmented by α-Syntrophin in a PDZ-dependent manner. More importantly, tyrosine phosphorylation of EphA4 induced by ephrin-A1 was attenuated in C2C12 myotubes upon the inhibition of ARMS and a-syntrophin expression by siRNA transfection. Finally, disrupted localization of ARMS and EphA4 at the NMJ was observed in a-syntrophin null mice. Taken together, our findings suggest an important role of ARMS in regulating postsynaptic signaling events through syntrophin-mediated localization of receptor tyrosine kinases.
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