Detection and phylogenetic tree analysis of human parainfluenza virus type 3 in children with acute respiratory tract infection from a hospital in Shanghai / 中华传染病杂志

Objective To understand the epidemiologic feature of human parainfluenza virus type 3 (HPIV-3) in Shanghai,and to provide scientific evidence for formulating prevention and control measures in the future.Methods A total of 164 nasopharyngeal aspirates samples taken from children with acute respiratory infection (ARI) were collected from Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University and sent to Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center from June 2009 to June 2010.Samples were detected for HPIV-3 by reversed transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).Full-length hemagglutininneuraminidase (HN) gene (1 719 bp) of five positive samples were sequenced for phylogenetic analysis.Comparison between two groups was evaluated by the precise chi-square test (two sided).Results Of 164 samples,70 samples were infected with parainfluenza virus,and HPIV-3 was detected positive in 23 samples with the positive rate of 32.86％.HPIV-3 infections were most common in spring and summer,and most of infections were mainly found in 13-36 month-old infants.Five Shanghai isolates and 36 reference sequences from different countries and areas were divided by HN gene-based phylogenetic tree into three clusters (A,B and C).Five Shanghai isolates and five Beijing isolates belonged to C3a group.The homologies of nucleotide and amino acid sequences between five Shanghai isolates and five Beijing isolates were 99.0％-99.5％ and 99.7％-100.0％,respectively.Conclusions HPIV-3 accounts for a high proportion in children with ARI in Shanghai.C3a group may be the main lineage of HPIV-3,which suggests that HPIV-3 may be of regionally correlation.

Genetic characteristics on the small hydrophobic protein and hemagglutinin-neuraminidase genes of mumps virus in Yunnan province,China from 2007 to 2009 / 中华流行病学杂志

Objective To analyze genetic characterization of the small hydrophobic and hemagglutinin-neuraminidase genes of mumps virus(MuV)isolated in Yunnan province,China from 2007 to 2009.Methods Fourteen MuV strains were isolated in Yunnan,China from 2007 to 2009.Using RT-PCR,the SH gene fragments contained 316 nucleotides in all strains and HN gene of six strains were sequenced.The sequences were aligned with other mumps virus sequences downloaded from GenBank using Mega 4.1 software.Results Fourteen isolated strains were closely related to other reference strains of F genotypes.In SH gene,the homology of nucleotide and amino acid among the fourteen isolated strains were 98.3%-100.0%and 96.5%-100.0%,respectively,and 92.6%%-99.4%and 87.7%-100.0% of homology when compared with that of strains isolated from other provinces in China,respectively.Wsh1 and Wsh2 strains had less homology when compared to other strains of F genotypes.The fourteen strains had homology of 84.5%-85.1%and 77.2%compared to vaccine strains on nucleotide and amino acid,respectively,and had homology of 83.4%-90.9% and 70.1%-86.0% compared to that of other genotypes.In HN gene,the homology of nucleotide and amino acid among the six isolated strains were 99.3%-99.5% and 99.1%-99.7%,respectively,and also 99.8% and 99.8% of homology respectively when compared to the SP strain in China.All the six strains had homology of 92.4%-93.2% and 95.5%-96.4% when compared to the vaecine strains on nucleotide and amino acid,respectively,and had homology of 94.7%-96.8% and 95.5%-99.1%compared to other genotypes.Conclusion Fourteen strains isolated in Yunnan from 2007 to 2009belonged to F genotype of MuV while the HN gene seemed more conservative than SH gene.

Construction of Recombinant DNA with F and HN Genes of Newcastle Disease Virus and Its Immunogenicity

Recombinant DNA vaccines, based on plasmid vectors expressing an antigen under the control of a strong promotor, have several advantages over traditional vaccines. They have been shown to induce a full spectrum of immune responses for humoral and cellular systems and to secure the higher safety and the simplicity of administration. Thus, establishment of DNA vaccines against Newcastle disease virus (NDV) in poultry has been widely investigated using various virus strains and vector systems. In this study, the F and HN genes of NDV CBP-1 strains isolated from diseased pheasants and attenuated by serial passages in egg embryos were cloned using pSLIA vector and constructed two recombinants of pSLIA-tsF and pSLIA-tsHN. The recombinant plasmids were transfected into COS-7 cell and the expression of HN and F proteins were verified by immunofluorescence, SDS-PAGE and Western blot. The recombinant plasmids were injected intramuscularly and intradermally into C57B/6 mouse and a significant increment of HN and F antibodies was detected by ELISA. According to the results, it was implicative that the recombinant DNA could be utilized for development of recombinant DNA vaccine for NDV.

Construction and erpression of NDV pIRHN nucleic acid vaccine and its effect onthe tumor cells / 中国免疫学杂志

Abstract Objective:To explore antitumor effect of NDV HN. Methods: pIRHN nucleic acid vaccin was constructed and was transfectedto Hela cells. Westem blot was used to analyssize the expression of pIRHN nucleic acid vaccine in eukarytic cell. The mode of cell death was de-tected by fluorescence microscope, gel electrophoresis and TUNEL assay. The effect of pIRHN nucleic acid vaccine on the contents of siaha acidin the Hela cell was examined. Results: pIRHN nucleic acid vaccine could be expressed in the eukarytic cell. pIRHN could induced apoptosisafter HeLa cells were transfected. The effect of antitumor responses of pIRHN was correlated with the contents of sialic acid in tumor cells. Con-clusion: The reults of our experiment will provide the theory evidence for the anti tumor mechamism of NDV.