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Foerster A, Hołowacz I, Sunil Kumar GB, Anandakumar S, Wall JG, Wawrzyńska M, Paprocka M, Kantor A, Kraskiewicz H, Olsztyńska-Janus S, Hinder SJ, Bialy D, Podbielska H, Kopaczyńska M. Stainless steel surface functionalization for immobilization of antibody fragments for cardiovascular applications. J Biomed Mater Res A 2015; 104:821-32. [PMID: 26566715 DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.35616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2015] [Revised: 09/23/2015] [Accepted: 11/11/2015] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Stainless steel 316 L material is commonly used for the production of coronary and peripheral vessel stents. Effective biofunctionalization is a key to improving the performance and safety of the stents after implantation. This paper reports the method for the immobilization of recombinant antibody fragments (scFv) on stainless steel 316 L to facilitate human endothelial progenitor cell (EPC) growth and thus improve cell viability of the implanted stents for cardiovascular applications. The modification of stent surface was conducted in three steps. First the stent surface was coated with titania based coating to increase the density of hydroxyl groups for successful silanization. Then silanization with 3 aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTS) was performed to provide the surface with amine groups which presence was verified using FTIR, XPS, and fluorescence microscopy. The maximum density of amine groups (4.8*10(-5) mol/cm(2)) on the surface was reached after reaction taking place in ethanol for 1 h at 60 °C and 0.04M APTS. On such prepared surface the glycosylated scFv were subsequently successfully immobilized. The influence of oxidation of scFv glycan moieties and the temperature on scFv coating were investigated. The fluorescence and confocal microscopy study indicated that the densest and most uniformly coated surface with scFv was obtained at 37 °C after oxidation of glycan chain. The results demonstrate that the scFv cannot be efficiently immobilized without prior aminosilanization of the surface. The effect of the chemical modification on the cell viability of EPC line 55.1 (HucPEC-55.1) was performed indicating that the modifications to the 316 L stainless steel are non-toxic to EPCs.
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- A Foerster
- Departament of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
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- Departament of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
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- Microbiology and Centre for Research in Medical Devices (CÚRAM), NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Microbiology and Centre for Research in Medical Devices (CÚRAM), NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Microbiology and Centre for Research in Medical Devices (CÚRAM), NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Department of Medical Emergency, Wroclaw Medical University, Wrocław, Poland
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- Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław, Poland
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- Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław, Poland
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- Departament of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering Sciences, University of Surrey, England
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- Clinic of Cardiology, Wroclaw Medical University, Wrocław, Poland
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- Departament of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
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- Departament of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
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Ali SS, Gunupuru LR, Kumar GBS, Khan M, Scofield S, Nicholson P, Doohan FM. Plant disease resistance is augmented in uzu barley lines modified in the brassinosteroid receptor BRI1. BMC Plant Biol 2014; 14:227. [PMID: 25135116 PMCID: PMC4158134 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-014-0227-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2014] [Accepted: 08/12/2014] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Brassinosteroid hormones regulate many aspects of plant growth and development. The membrane receptor BRI1 is a central player in the brassinosteroid signaling cascade. Semi-dwarf 'uzu' barley carries a mutation in a conserved domain of the kinase tail of BRI1 and this mutant allele is recognised for its positive contribution to both yield and lodging resistance. RESULTS Here we show that uzu barley exhibits enhanced resistance to a range of pathogens. It was due to a combination of preformed, inducible and constitutive defence responses, as determined by a combination of transcriptomic and biochemical studies. Gene expression studies were used to determine that the uzu derivatives are attenuated in downstream brassinosteroid signaling. The reduction of BRI1 RNA levels via virus-induced gene silencing compromised uzu disease resistance. CONCLUSIONS The pathogen resistance of uzu derivatives may be due to pleiotropic effects of BRI1 or the cascade effects of their repressed BR signaling.
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- Shahin S Ali
- />Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions Laboratory, School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
- />SPCL, USDA/ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, MD 20705 USA
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- />Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions Laboratory, School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- />Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions Laboratory, School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- />Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions Laboratory, School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
- />Present address: Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology, Guwahati -35, India
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- />Department of Agronomy, USDA-ARS, Crop Production and Pest Control Research Unit and Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
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- />Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH UK
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- />Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions Laboratory, School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
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Fusarium pathogens are among the most damaging pathogens of cereals. These pathogens have the ability to attack the roots, seedlings, and flowering heads of barley and wheat plants with disease, resulting in yield loss and head blight disease and also resulting in the contamination of grain with mycotoxins harmful to human and animal health. There is increasing evidence that brassinosteroid (BR) hormones play an important role in plant defense against both biotic and abiotic stress agents and this study set out to determine if and how BR might affect Fusarium diseases of barley. Application of the epibrassinolide (epiBL) to heads of 'Lux' barley reduced the severity of Fusarium head blight (FHB) caused by Fusarium culmorum by 86% and reduced the FHB-associated loss in grain weight by 33%. Growth of plants in soil amended with epiBL resulted in a 28 and 35% reduction in Fusarium seedling blight (FSB) symptoms on the Lux and 'Akashinriki' barley, respectively. Microarray analysis was used to determine whether growth in epiBL-amended soil changed the transcriptional profile in stem base tissue during the early stages of FSB development. At 24 and 48 h post F. culmorum inoculation, there were 146 epiBL-responsive transcripts, the majority being from the 48-h time point (n = 118). Real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction analysis validated the results for eight transcripts, including five defense genes. The results of gene expression studies show that chromatin remodeling, hormonal signaling, photosynthesis, and pathogenesis-related genes are activated in plants as a result of growth in epiBL.
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There is a growing interest to develop oral vaccines for infectious diseases, as it is the most convenient and effective way to attain mucosal immunity. Hepatitis B continues to be a major infectious disease in many developing countries despite the availability of recombinant vaccine. On a global scenario, Hepatitis B Virus infection is probably the single most prevalent cause of persistent viraemia in humans. There are about 350 million chronic carriers of HBV, which is about 5% of the total world population. It is estimated that 75-100 million of them will die of liver cirrhosis and/or hepatocellular carcinoma. Progress in plant genetic engineering has enabled the transfer of useful genes for desirable traits. The recent trend is to use this technique to exploit plants as biofactories for the production of therapeutic proteins including vaccines. Rapid progress has been made in this area to develop plant-based vaccines for hepatitis B. This review describes the expression, characterization, and immunogenicity studies of hepatitis B vaccines produced in recombinant plant systems and their implications for developing a plant-based vaccine.
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- G B Sunil Kumar
- Plant Cell Culture Technology Section, Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Trombay, Mumbai 400 085, India
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Ganapathi TR, Sunil Kumar GB, Srinivas L, Revathi CJ, Bapat VA. Analysis of the limitations of hepatitis B surface antigen expression in soybean cell suspension cultures. Plant Cell Rep 2007; 26:1575-84. [PMID: 17534624 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-007-0379-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2007] [Revised: 04/09/2007] [Accepted: 05/06/2007] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Soybean cell suspension cultures were transformed using Agrobacterium tumefaciens harboring pHBS/pHER constructs to express hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg). The transformed colonies were selected and analyzed for the expression of HBsAg by PCR, reverse transcription (RT) PCR, Western blot and ELISA analysis. The maximum expression of 700 ng/g F.W. was noted in pHER transformed cells. The highest expressing colonies were used to initiate the cell suspension cultures and the expression of HBsAg was estimated periodically. The expression levels were reduced drastically in cell suspension cultures compared to the colonies maintained on semi-solid medium. Various parameters were studied to maximize the cell growth and to retain the expression levels. The supplementation of culture medium with a protease inhibitor, leupeptin hemisulfate could restore up to 50% of HBsAg expression in cell suspension cultures. This is the first report to investigate the possible cause and solution to the loss of recombinant protein expression levels in plant cell suspension cultures.
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- T R Ganapathi
- Plant Cell culture Technology Section, Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400 085, India
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Kumar GBS, Ganapathi TR, Revathi CJ, Srinivas L, Bapat VA. Expression of hepatitis B surface antigen in transgenic banana plants. Planta 2005; 222:484-93. [PMID: 15918027 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-005-1556-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2005] [Accepted: 04/04/2005] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Embryogenic cells of bananan cv. Rasthali (AAB) have been transformed with the 's' gene of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) using Agrobacterium mediated transformation. Four different expression cassettes (pHBS, pHER, pEFEHBS and pEFEHER) were utilized to optimize the expression of HBsAg in banana. The transgenic nature of the plants and expression of the antigen was confirmed by PCR, Southern hybridization and reverse transcription (RT)-PCR. The expression levels of the antigen in the plants grown under in vitro conditions as well as the green house hardened plants were estimated by ELISA for all the four constructs. Maximum expression level of 38 ng/g F.W. of leaves was noted in plants transformed with pEFEHBS grown under in vitro conditions, whereas pHER transformed plants grown in the green house showed the maximum expression level of 19.92 ng/g F.W. of leaves. Higher monoclonal antibody binding of 67.87% of the antigen was observed when it was expressed with a C-terminal ER retention signal. The buoyant density in CsCl of HBsAg derived from transgenic banana leaves was determined and found to be 1.146 g/ml. HBsAg obtained from transgenic banana plants is similar to human serum derived one in buoyant density properties. The transgenic plants were grown up to maturity in the green house and the expression of HBsAg in the fruits was confirmed by RT-PCR. These transgenic plants were multiplied under in vitro using floral apex cultures. Attempts were also made to enhance the expression of HBsAg in the leaves of transgenic banana plants by wounding and/or treatment with plant growth regulators. This is the first report on the expression of HBsAg in transgenic banana fruits.
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- G B Sunil Kumar
- Plant Cell Culture Technology Section, Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400085, India
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Kumar GBS, Ganapathi TR, Srinivas L, Revathi CJ, Bapat VA. Secretion of hepatitis B surface antigen in transformed tobacco cell suspension cultures. Biotechnol Lett 2005; 27:927-32. [PMID: 16091888 DOI: 10.1007/s10529-005-7185-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2005] [Accepted: 05/05/2005] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Six different expression cassettes of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) were used to transform tobacco cell suspension cultures. The transgenic nature of the cells was confirmed by PCR. The secreted HBsAg was assayed by ELISA and analyzed by Western blotting. A maximum of 31 microg antigen/l was obtained in the spent medium from the transformed cells. The use of an ethylene-forming enzyme promoter and incorporation of C-terminal endoplasmic-reticulum-retention signal enhanced the secretion of HBsAg. Salicylic or jasmonic acid at 10 microM: increased secretion of HBsAg by six fold.
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- G B Sunil Kumar
- Plant Cell Culture Technology Section, Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, 400 085 Trombay, Mumbai, India
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Sunil Kumar GB, Ganapathi TR, Revathi CJ, Prasad KSN, Bapat VA. Expression of hepatitis B surface antigen in tobacco cell suspension cultures. Protein Expr Purif 2003; 32:10-7. [PMID: 14680934 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2003.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2002] [Revised: 07/19/2003] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Hepatitis B virus ' s ' gene coding for surface antigen was cloned into plant transformation vectors pHER100 and pHBs100 with and without endoplasmic reticulum retention signal, respectively. Transformed tobacco cell lines were analyzed for the integration of the transgene by PCR and Southern blot hybridization. Expression levels as determined by ELISA showed maximum expression levels of 2 microg HBsAg gm(-1) fresh weight and 10 ng mL(-1) of spent medium in pHER100 transformed cells. Western blot analysis confirmed the presence of 24 kDa band specific to HBsAg in the transformed cells. HBsAg was expressed both as intracellular and secreted forms in pHER100 transformed cells. The buoyant density in CsCl of HBsAg derived from pHBs100 transformed tobacco cells was determined and found to be 1.095 g mL(-1). HBsAg obtained from transformed tobacco cells is similar to the human serum derived one in buoyant density properties. This is the first report on the secretion of HBsAg particles by plant cells into the cell culture medium.
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- G B Sunil Kumar
- Plant Cell Culture Technology Section, Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400 085, India
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