Preliminary evaluation of hypersensitive C-reactive protein rapid quantitative chemiluminescent detection kit / 国际检验医学杂志

Objective To evaluate the performance of the hypersensitive C-reactive protein(hs-CRP) rapid quantitative chemilu-minescent detection kit .Methods According to National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS) EP10-A2 docu-ment ,hs-CRP rapid quantitative chemiluminescent detection kit was employed to measure the CRP at low ,medium and high con-centration levels of quality control serum .Bias ,total imprecision and their slope rates ,intercepts ,carryover ,non-linearity and drift were calculated ,and its clinical acceptability was evaluated .Results Bias and total imprecision of hs-CRP rapid quantitative chemi-luminescent detection kit were within the allowable ranges ,the average values of slope rates ,intercepts ,carryover ,non-linearity and drift were 1 .005 7 ,0 .537 8 ,0 .789 6% ,0 .019 2 ,0 .036 0 ,respectively ,the differences showed no statistically significance ( P>0 .05) .Conclusion hs-CRP rapid quantitative chemiluminescent detection kit has good accuracy and precision ,stable perform-ance ,and consistent with the clinical testing requirements .

Studies on expression, purification, crystal growth and optimization of putative transcription factor LytR from Streptococcus pneumoniae / 生物医学工程学杂志

The aim of the present study was to obtain the crystal of transcription factor LytR of streptococcus pneumoniae for X-ray crystal structure and function analysis. The LytR gene of D39 strains from Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pn) was cloned into the prokaryotic expression vector pET32a(+), then overexpression was obtained in the E. coli BL21 (DE3) through transformation of the recombinant plasmid that had been verified by colony PCR and sequencing. Soluble fusion protein with His-tag highly expressed by the induction of 0.5 mmol/L IPTG and was purified by a three step procedure, the purity of the purified LytR recombinant protein was over 90%. Preliminary screening of crystallization conditions was performed using the hanging-drop vapour-diffusing method with Hampton Crystal screen and PEG screen kits. The protein crystals X-ray diffraction data were collected from a single crystal and more stick crystals whose X-ray diffraction reached 4.0 A were obtained. These works laid the foundation for further research on the 3D structure of putative transcription factor LytR and its biological aspects.