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Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) immunotherapy has achieved good efficacy in treatment of hematological malignancies. As a precise and individualized treatment method, CAR-T is gradually moving towards commercialization. In addition to the introduction of corresponding policies and guiding principles, the related detection protocols should also be updated and improved to maximize its effect and achieve precise individualization. This article introduces and expands the concept of "companion diagnostics" that first appeared in targeted drugs, and introduces the significances of various detection technologies and biomarkers for patient screening, safety monitoring and evaluation of efficacy and CAR-T function in the whole process of CAR-T treatment.
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Objective To study the biological function of GP,VP30,NP and L proteins in Ebola virus(EBOV) infectious diseases,and to screen the host proteins which interact with GP,VP30,NP,and L proteins of EBOV from human liver cDNA library using yeast two-hybrid technique.Methods Recombinant PCR was used to construct bait plasmids pGBKT7-GP,pGBKT7-VP30,pGBKT7-NP and pGBKT7-L.Bait strains were combined with human liver cDNA library strains.The positive clones were analyzed by DNA sequencing and bioinformatics.A yeast recovery experiment was performed to further verify and exclude false positive results.Results We constructed bait plasmids pGBKT7-GP,pGBKT7-VP30,pGBKT7-NP and pGBKT7-L with the recombinant PCR method.Six host proteins which could interact with GP,VP30,NP,and L proteins were screened,including COMMD1,ALB,PSMD8,APOA2,CYP2E1,and HP.The yeast recovery experiment proved that COMMD1 and APOA2 might interact with NP protein.Conclusion A number of prey proteins which interact with GP,VP30,NP,and L proteins of EBOV are screened,which may provide reference for the research of EBOV.
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This study aimed at exploring a fast method to accurately identify the medicinal insect Vespa mandarinia Smith from its adulterants using DNA barcode and COI sequences.The extracted DNAs from V.mandarinia and its adulterants V.soror were amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequenced bilaterally based on COI barcode sequence investigation.The information of the COI sequences of V.mandarinia and V.soror were gathered from GenBank.All the sequences were compared and analyzed,and their intraspecific and interspecific genetic distances were calculated using MEGA 6.06.In addition,the phylogenetic tree was established with neighbor-joining (NJ) method.As a result,the COI sequences of V.mandarinia and V.soror were successfully amplified.The minimum interspecific distance between V.mandarinia and its adulterants was 0.152 ± 0.017,being considerably larger than the maximal intraspecific distance between V.mandarinia,0.009±0.004.The constructed phylogenetic tree showed an independent branch for each species.It was concluded that the DNA barcode based on COI sequence can efficiently identify V.mandarinia and its adulterants.This study provided an innovative tool for the quality control and market regulation of Chinese materia medica,securing the safe medication of V.mandarinia.
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Medical insects are an important part of traditional Chinese medicine, their biomedical research and development of insects are gaining attention. The research and application of insect sex pheromone in this area also draws great attention. Currently, in-sect sex pheromone is mainly used for pest control in agroforestry. The review briefly describes the chemical constituents, release, and application of insect sex pheromones;meanwhile, the application of insect sex pheromone and its uses in mass trapping, mating disrup-tion, and pest control, in the insect resources development are preliminarily discussed.