DARU-Journal of Faculty of Pharmacy Tehran University of Medical Sciences. 2008; 16 (3): 174-181
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ABSTRACT
Helicobacter pylori express abundant amounts of AhpC enzyme that functions to reduce organic hydroperoxides [ROOH] into the corresponding non-toxic alcohols [ROH]. This conserved antigen has been earlier described as specific and unique for H. pylori and therefore, both H. pylori AhpC and Anti-AhpC could be useful in the development of serologic and stool antigen tests, to detecting and monitoring H. pylori infection. AhpC may also serves as a potential target for an antimicrobial agent or for vaccine development. The aim of this study was to simplify isolation and purification of the AhpC and production of a highly specific polyclonal antibody against it. In this paper a simple method was used for protein purification and antibody production which avoids both the long term AhpC protein purification procedure and the addition of Freund's adjuvant. One-dimensional preparative gel electrophoresis allows a single and short purification step and the high resolution capacity of this technique leads to a high level of purity of the protein and consequently to a very high specificity of the antibody. Moreover, it avoids contamination by other non-specific proteins which often appear during protein purification by column chromatographic techniques. The present method is simple, rapid and cost-effective and makes it possible to produce antibody for stool antigen enzyme immunoassay in short time and at low cost
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Assunto principal:
Vacinas
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Helicobacter pylori
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Técnicas Imunoenzimáticas
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Análise Custo-Benefício
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Eletroforese em Gel de Poliacrilamida
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Formação de Anticorpos
Tipo de estudo:
Avaliação Econômica em Saúde
Limite:
Humanos
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
J. Fac. Pharm. Tehran Univ. Med. Sci.
Ano de publicação:
2008
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