Avian Influenza and Swine Influenza:New Understanding of Crossing Species Barrier / 生物化学与生物物理进展

This year an outbreak of influenza in Mexico comes from a new epidemic of influenza viruses:A/H1N1 influenza virus.This virus is a kind of virus mixture,including human,avian and swine influenza virus gene fragments.The pathogenic mechanism of avian,swine and human influenza virus in its natural host were compared.The main purpose is to assess the risk of which pigs and poultry has the possibility to become one of zoonotic disease and to assess the possible role in process of avian flu transmission from pigs to people.As zoonotic disease,avian influenza and swine influenza virus have the key role in the process of human infection.But the influenza virus spread of crossing species barrier is not sufficient to cause a large outbreak of human influenza.Animal influenza viruses must have a significant genetic variation before they could live for a long term in the crowd.

Efficient Protection of H5N1 Influenza Virus DNA Vaccine Delivering by Electroporation in Mammalian and Avian System / 生物化学与生物物理进展

To investigate the protection effect of DNA vaccine in mammalian and avian systems, the DNA vaccine was inoculated in both BALB/c mice and SPF chickens immunized with DNA vaccines encoding hemagglutinin (HA) from A/Goose/GuangDong/1/96 (H5N1) virus. The mice and chickens were immunized twice, 3 weeks apart, by electroporation into muscles or intramuscular injection. Two weeks after the second immunization, the mice and chickens were challenged with a lethal dose of homologous virus. The mice and chickens immunized by electroporation obtained completely protection against the virus, and could effectively inhibited viruses to replicating in mouse lung and chicken cloaca. At the same time, these protections were companied by high levels specific antibody to H5N1 AIV, while the blank plasmid controls experience 100 percent mortality following challenge. Furthermore, in the experiment of mice by eletroporation,stronger obviously CTL activity were observed after challenge. Thus, the cellular immune responses of the mice immunized by electroporation were exhibited. These results strongly demonstrate that HA DNA vaccines provide effective protection against influenza virus infection in mammalian and avian, and suggest that electroporation is one of the efficient gene delivery systems for the transfer of influenza DNA vaccine in both humoral immunity and cellular immunity.

Construction of a eukaryotic expressing vector containing CP15 gene of C.parvum and its expression in Hela cells / 中国免疫学杂志

Objective:To construct an eukaryotic expressing vector pCR3 1 15 containing CP15 gene of Crypstosporidium parvum(C.parvum) and express it in Hela cells Methods:CP15 gene of C parvum was obtained from pMD18 T 15 disgested by BglⅡ and was inserted into eukaryotic expressing vector pCR3 1(+) in BamHⅠ site,and then Hela cells were transfected with recombinant by liposomes The transcription and expressed products of CP15 in the transfected Hela cells were assayed by RT PCR,ELISA and indiret immunofluorescence assay after screening with G418 Results:It showed that pCR3 1 15 was constructed successfully CP15 gene was transcripted in transfectants and CP15 protein with obvious biological activity was highly expressed in Hela cells Conclusion:CP15 gene in recombinant vector is proved to be expressed in Hela cells and obvious biological activity of expression production in transfected cells was detected