The antibody used in the study, called BG4, binds with quadruple helices and glows red.
Unlike other human antibodies under investigation that recognize both Zika and the closely related dengue virus,
the antibodies used in this study exclusively target Zika, demonstrating a high specificity that could be important in avoiding potential side effects — such as enhanced dengue infection in regions where both viruses are endemic.
Antibodies used in these studies included: CD11b - phycoerythrin (CD11b - PE)(2 μg / ml), CD45.1 - PE (5 μg / ml), CD45.2 - PE (5 μg / ml; eBioscience, San Diego, California, USA), and F4 / 80 - APC (5 μg / ml; Caltag Laboratories Inc., Burlingame, California, USA).
Information for
antibodies used in this study is provided in supporting information, Table S2.
The antibodies used in this study are listed in Table 1.
The antibodies used in this study includes COX - 2 (Cayman Chemicals, Ann Arbor, MI, USA), STAT6 for Western blot (Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, MA, USA), for immunofluorescence (IF)(BD Pharmingen, San Diego, CA, USA), for ChIP (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, CA, USA), phospho - STAT6 (Cell Signaling Technology), p300 for Western blot, (Upstate, Lake Placid, NY, USA), for ChIP (Santa Cruz Biotechnology), normal rabbit IgG (Santa Cruz Biotechnology), mouse immunoglobulin (Ig) G1, κ Ig (BD Pharmingen), glyceraldehyde -3-phosphate dehydrogenase (Advanced ImmunoChemical, Long Beach, CA, USA), Cy3 - conjugated AffiniPure Goat anti-mouse IgG (Jackson ImmunoResearch, West Grove, PA, USA) and PARP (Cell Signaling Technology).
Not exact matches
Such highly sensitive
in vitro techniques permit the
use of picomole quantities of an antigen
in partially purified preparations for the isolation of monoclonal
antibodies, which can
in turn be
used in biological
studies and
in immunochemical procedures for large - scale purification and isolation of that antigen.
In a study published in the May 29, 2014, edition of Molecular Ecology Resources, Duke researchers Peter Larsen, Ryan Campbell and Anne Yoder used high - throughput sequencing on sifaka blood samples to generate sequence data for more than 150,000 different sifaka antibodies — protective molecules that latch on to bacteria, viruses and other foreign invaders in the body and fight them off before they cause infectio
In a
study published
in the May 29, 2014, edition of Molecular Ecology Resources, Duke researchers Peter Larsen, Ryan Campbell and Anne Yoder used high - throughput sequencing on sifaka blood samples to generate sequence data for more than 150,000 different sifaka antibodies — protective molecules that latch on to bacteria, viruses and other foreign invaders in the body and fight them off before they cause infectio
in the May 29, 2014, edition of Molecular Ecology Resources, Duke researchers Peter Larsen, Ryan Campbell and Anne Yoder
used high - throughput sequencing on sifaka blood samples to generate sequence data for more than 150,000 different sifaka
antibodies — protective molecules that latch on to bacteria, viruses and other foreign invaders
in the body and fight them off before they cause infectio
in the body and fight them off before they cause infection.
Masdeu plans to
use study results to develop more sensitive tests to aid
in the detection of attacking
antibodies.
In a study recently published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, HSCI researchers at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), in collaboration with Boston Children's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, have developed a non-toxic transplantation procedure using antibodies to specifically target blood stem cells in mice, an approach they hope will make blood stem cell transplants for these patients far less toxi
In a
study recently published
in the journal Nature Biotechnology, HSCI researchers at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), in collaboration with Boston Children's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, have developed a non-toxic transplantation procedure using antibodies to specifically target blood stem cells in mice, an approach they hope will make blood stem cell transplants for these patients far less toxi
in the journal Nature Biotechnology, HSCI researchers at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH),
in collaboration with Boston Children's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, have developed a non-toxic transplantation procedure using antibodies to specifically target blood stem cells in mice, an approach they hope will make blood stem cell transplants for these patients far less toxi
in collaboration with Boston Children's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, have developed a non-toxic transplantation procedure
using antibodies to specifically target blood stem cells
in mice, an approach they hope will make blood stem cell transplants for these patients far less toxi
in mice, an approach they hope will make blood stem cell transplants for these patients far less toxic.
Using the findings from this
study, the team has designed vaccine immunogens to selectively trigger the cooperating
antibody - producing B cells to cooperate to make broadly neutralizing
antibodies in a manner that mimics broadly neutralizing
antibody development
in natural HIV infection.
The researchers now want to conduct follow - up
studies to optimise the
use of IgEnio — currently patients have to have IgE
antibodies removed from their blood for a morning approximately once a week during the pollen season — and to test its
use for treating inflammatory skin diseases,
in which IgE
antibodies are also implicated.
Using multiple statistical approaches to
study a long - term pediatric cohort
in Nicaragua, we show that risk of severe dengue disease is highest within a narrow range of preexisting anti-DENV
antibody titers.
By examining the structure presented
in this
study, her team will work to determine how the
antibodies could be
used to kill the virus.
In the Nature Biotechnology
study, the researchers
used it to anchor proteins, and they also showed that the technique works on tissue that has been previously labeled with either fluorescent
antibodies or proteins such as green fluorescent protein (GFP).
Ollmann Saphire says the next step is to
study how known mutations
in Marburg evade such
antibodies and to
use that information to devise second - line treatments.
In the study, researchers used the blood of seven people who survived Ebola Bundibugyo virus infection during the 2007 outbreak in Uganda to isolate a large number of B cells that produce antibodies, which are the small protein molecules capable of inactivating the viru
In the
study, researchers
used the blood of seven people who survived Ebola Bundibugyo virus infection during the 2007 outbreak
in Uganda to isolate a large number of B cells that produce antibodies, which are the small protein molecules capable of inactivating the viru
in Uganda to isolate a large number of B cells that produce
antibodies, which are the small protein molecules capable of inactivating the virus.
But
in those
studies, interferon — delivered by an adenovirus — was
used in combination with a cocktail of monoclonal
antibodies.
Other researchers involved
in the
study, conducted entirely at NYU Langone, were Mariela Mitre, BE; James D'amour, BSc; and Moses Chao, PhD, whose laboratory developed the oxytocin receptor
antibody used to track hormone activity.
In the current study, Vanderbilt researchers led by graduate student Andrew Flyak, the paper's first author, used a high - efficiency method they developed to quickly isolate and generate large quantities of monoclonal human antibodies from the blood of survivors of a 2007 outbreak in Uganda who were infected by the Bundibugyo ebolaviru
In the current
study, Vanderbilt researchers led by graduate student Andrew Flyak, the paper's first author,
used a high - efficiency method they developed to quickly isolate and generate large quantities of monoclonal human
antibodies from the blood of survivors of a 2007 outbreak
in Uganda who were infected by the Bundibugyo ebolaviru
in Uganda who were infected by the Bundibugyo ebolavirus.
But neither team has yet shown that their bispecific
antibodies can actually reduce reservoirs of HIV
in monkeys, which are commonly
used to
study the AIDS virus.
«What we have shown
in the Science
study is that we now have the means to obtain real - time images of processes happening on the surface of intact HIV particles, which we now plan to
use to screen the impact of drugs and
antibodies that can shut it down,» he says.
To investigate why checkpoint inhibitors so often stop working, Velculescu; Valsamo Anagnostou, M.D., Ph.D., instructor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Kellie N. Smith, Ph.D., a cancer immunology research associate at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and their colleagues at the Bloomberg ~ Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
studied tumors of four patients with non-small cell lung cancer and one patient with head and neck cancer who developed resistance to two different checkpoint inhibitors: a drug called nivolumab that
uses an
antibody called anti-PD-1, or nivolumab
used alone or
in combination with a second drug called ipilimumab, which
uses an
antibody called anti-CTLA4.
Just as cells of the immune system
use antibodies to recognize pathogens, researchers
in this
study designed
antibodies to recognize a protein over-expressed by these cancer cells, namely the protein mesothelin.
They ordered the
antibodies that had been
used in more than 80
studies to measure irisin levels, and they analyzed them
using Western blots.
By
studying the connections between skin cells
using AFM and other techniques that probe cells at the nanoscale, Sinha and his colleagues report that pathogenic
antibodies change structural and functional properties of skin cells
in distinct ways.
Two recent
studies pointed to possible flaws
in the methods
used to identify irisin, with commercially available
antibodies.
The
study, appearing March 9
in the journal Scientific Reports, directly tested the
antibodies used in previous analyses and showed that they cross-reacted with proteins other than irisin, yielding a false positive result.
In the current
study, the researchers
used high - affinity
antibodies to «label» the cannabinoid receptors so they could be seen
using various microscopy techniques, including electron microscopy, which allowed very detailed visualization at individual synapses, or gaps between nerve cells.
«Currently, there is a lot of focus on the
use of
antibodies transferred passively or through a vaccine to prevent infection
in infants, however this
study cautions against that and suggests that broadly neutralizing
antibodies may actually aid
in enhancing transmission from mother to child,» added Sagar, an attending physician
in infectious diseases at Boston Medical Center.
In the new study, CDC's Nicholas Komar and Kasen Riemersma — who's now at the University of California, Davis — used existing blood samples from white - tailed deer, raccoons, moose, and coyotes collected between 2009 and 2014 in 19 states, both in the center of the lone star tick's range and its periphery, and tested them for antibodies against the Heartland viru
In the new
study, CDC's Nicholas Komar and Kasen Riemersma — who's now at the University of California, Davis —
used existing blood samples from white - tailed deer, raccoons, moose, and coyotes collected between 2009 and 2014
in 19 states, both in the center of the lone star tick's range and its periphery, and tested them for antibodies against the Heartland viru
in 19 states, both
in the center of the lone star tick's range and its periphery, and tested them for antibodies against the Heartland viru
in the center of the lone star tick's range and its periphery, and tested them for
antibodies against the Heartland virus.
In this
study, patients began treatment with chemotherapy
using cyclophosphamide and topotecan and the experimental monoclonal
antibody hu14.18 K322A.
Pembrolizumab, an
antibody drug already
used to treat other forms of cancer, can be effective
in the treatment of the most common form of mesothelioma, according to a new
study led by investigators from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
In the new study, researchers used specially designed antibodies in the mice to first wipe out rogue beta - cell - killing T cells from the immune syste
In the new
study, researchers
used specially designed
antibodies in the mice to first wipe out rogue beta - cell - killing T cells from the immune syste
in the mice to first wipe out rogue beta - cell - killing T cells from the immune system.
While viral escape has not been observed
in the NHP models of immunoprophylaxis described above, virus can evolve
in response to neutralizing
antibodies in HIV - positive patients [16], [17] and early
studies showed escape of patient virus from passive
antibody - mediated protection when a single mAb was
used [18].
The present findings are derived from
studies using CD4KO mice and thus, raise the question as to whether the CD4 + T cell - independent immune mechanisms
in CD4 KO mice differ from those involved
in corneal allograft rejection
in wild - type mice whose CD4 + T cells population have been depleted with monoclonal
antibodies.
And researchers understand
use of PrEP and other HIV prevention strategies may limit their ability to
study the natural evolution of
antibody responses
in HIV - infected individuals.
For example, their
studies showed that avian FcRY, unlike mammalian FcRn,
uses multiple domains to bind to its
antibody, changing its conformation
in the process.
BUFFALO, N.Y., Feb. 15, 2017 / PRNewswire / — Today, a research team from Everon Biosciences, Inc. and Roswell Park Cancer Institute has published a new
study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) describing a new biomarker of senescent cells and a specific monoclonal
antibody that could potentially be
used to develop -LSB-...]
Major CFS symptom relief during cancer chemotherapy
in a patient with synchronous CFS and lymphoma spurred a pilot
study of B - lymphocyte depletion
using the anti-CD20
antibody Rituximab, which demonstrated significant clinical response
in three CFS patients.
During the 1980s, Marder led
studies using antibodies and the technique of immunocytochemistry to reveal the presence of many different neuromodulators
in nerve fibres around the STG of crabs, including serotonin, proctolin and GABA.
Made major contributions to the field of immunology through his
studies on immune tolerance
in animal models, with particular focus on transplantation tolerance and autoimmunity,
in addition to pioneering the
use of therapeutic monoclonal
antibodies against T cells, resulting
in the development of Campath - 1H, the first humanised monoclonal
antibody to be
used therapeutically.
Vaccines are
used to offer protection against a number of diseases and so ensuring their effectiveness is important, and a
study published
in the journal Vaccine has reported that flu vaccines given
in the morning brought about a greater immune (measured by
antibody levels) response than those given
in the afternoon.
In other applications, they are
used to deliver genes that provide instructions for generating molecules such as
antibodies or fluorescent proteins that help researchers
study, identify, and track certain cells.
In a paper published online Aug. 31, by Nature Medicine, researchers report that
using a monoclonal
antibody called anti-CD47, which blocks the «don't - eat - me» signal on malignant cells, to treat mice with an intact immune system provides a much more lifelike way to
study and develop an immune - based cancer therapy.
These whole proteome arrays, available
in 100 copies each, will be
used to
study autoimmunity
in patient samples and to validate the specificity of
antibodies.
SSI offers vaccination
studies in mice including 1 - 2 control groups and full immunogenicity analysis including CMI and humoral immunogenicity
using Flow cytometry (B and T cells) and ELISA (cytokines and
antibodies).
IAVI launched the Neutralizing
Antibody Consortium (NAC)
in 2002 to
study the molecular structure and biochemistry of known broadly neutralizing
antibodies and to
use this information to design (reverse engineer) potentially powerful AIDS vaccine candidates.
Post says the
study is a new take on monoclonal
antibody drugs that have been
used in humans.
A
study performed by vaccine manufacturer Vanguard
using a COMBINATION vaccine (one which contains several different vaccines) tested the efficiency of the vaccine
in stimulating
antibodies in an immune response.