摘要:
The present invention is related to the development of peptides derived from the sequence HYRIKPTFRRLKWKKYKGKFW, showing aminoacids substitutions, these peptides unable to bind to the lipopolysaccharide and bearing anti-tumoral and immunomodulatory capacities. These peptides alone or in combination are useful to treat cancer, and also in synergy with conventional therapies.
摘要:
A polymeric dendrimer-like structure with four branches of monomethoxypolyethylene glycol that can be represented as:
The carboxylic group of the previous structure can be functionalized for the production of conjugates of pharmaceutical interest. The binding of this dendrimer-like polyethylene glycol to therapeutic proteins improves their in vitro and in vivo stability.
摘要:
The present invention consists of the combination of Interferon alpha and C-Phycocyanin (IFN-α/C-Phyco) for obtaining a pharmaceutical preparation for autoimmune disease, allergy and cancer treatments. The anti-inflammatory, immunomodulator, antioxidant, anti-viral, anti-proliferative and anti-tumoral effects, associated to the regulatory T cell inducer effect demonstrated in this invention is the rationale for the use of the IFN-α/C-Phyco combination in these diseases.
摘要:
The present invention is related to a composition capable of inhibiting the growth of tumoral cells of different histological origins and of activated endothelial cells. The components of said compositions are polypeptide fragments of the serralisins, corresponding to the C-terminal fragment, from the internal metionine trough the end of the molecule, which could be combined among them and optionally with the prodigiosins that potentiate the antitumoral effect of the composition. The prodigiosins in the composition could be at a concentration of 0.1 - 100 nM. The anti-proliferative action of this composition is mediated by apoptotic mechanism. It's "in vivo" administration has antitumoral, antiangiogenic and protective effect against malignant tumors.
摘要:
The present invention describes a method that combines the blocking of primary amino groups and the cation exchange chromatography, to simplify peptide mixtures that can be generated or not by proteolytic or chemical treatments. This method allows the selective isolation of an average of 4 multiply-charged peptides (RH peptides) per protein and the study of 90% of the proteins of the analyzed proteomes. It is applicable to studies of quantitative proteomics without the usage of two-dimensional electrophorsis, it is compatible with any type of isotopic labeling and it is very useful to determine the differential expression of proteins present in multiple conditions (3 to 6 conditions) when using different isotopic labeling in a single experiment. The chromatographic system used also allows the fractionation fraction of the RH peptides to achieve the identification of a greater number of proteins.
摘要:
The present invention is related with the neurobiology and the transgenic animals, more specifically with obtaining a model to study the SCA2 genetic disease. The genome of one mice line has been modified through the introduction of a DNA segment that contains the necessary information for the synthesis of the human ataxin 2. In particular the invention is related with the transgenic mice F066 and the cellular lines able to express the human sca2 gene under the regulation of its self promoter. The F066 transgenic mice reproduce the features of the disease. The homozygous transgenic mouse line for the new gene was obtained through matting. This transgenic line is useful to study the mechanism that produce the disease and also will permit to prove new therapeutics that contributes to minimize the clinical symptoms in the patients.
摘要:
New bacterial strains, in particular Sphingobacterium spiritivorum C-926 and Corynobacterium paurometabolum C-924 with useful characteristics in the farming sector due to their nematicidic effect, which can be used in this context for the bio-control of nematodes. Bionematicides capable of effectively controlling phytopathogenic nematode populations in various crops of interest. Useful strains may be isolated from soil taken from areas habitually affected by a high incidence of nematodes, from banana plants showing less severe symptoms of infestation. Strains are selected which are capable of affecting the eggs of the nematode Meloidogyne incognita, in experiments carried out under laboratory conditions. Active strains, such as Sphingobacterium spiritivorum strain C-926 and Corynobacterium paurometabolum strain C-924, are tested to assess the protection which the bacterial preparation, applied directly, can provide to pumpkin and banana plants in relation to Meloidogyne incognita and Radopholus similis. Strains may also be tested against the zoonematodes Haemonchus sp. and Trichostrongylus sp. Control of these parasites allows veterinary use. In addition to the nematodes referred to above, and selected due to the high losses which they incur in crops, the strains may also be effective in the control of populations of Heterodera ssp., Globodera ssp., and Pratylenchus ssp., as well as other species of zoonematodes.
摘要:
An artificial promoter characterized for been a chimerical recombinant DNA molecule such that, when introduced in any class of plant cells, promotes high expression levels of any DNA molecule fused to its 3' end. The basic genetic elements of the molecule described here are: a core promoter with a consensus TATA box, followed by an Exon/Intron/Exon region and a translation enhancer element, all of them artificially constructed. Transcription regulatory elements can be inserted upstream of the promoter here described to confer temporal-, organ- or tissue-specificity to the expression. The designed artificial genetic elements can be functionally inserted between any promoter active in plant cells and any DNA sequence to increase its transcription/translation levels.
摘要:
A DNA vector is provided for stable insertion and expression of heterologous genes in the plastid genomes of any Angiosperm plant cell. In this vector, foreign genes can be inserted in multiple cloning sites located at an artificial intergenic region obtained from the combination of atpB and rbcL operons that belong to plants of different Classes (dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous). The expression cassette is inserted into the plastid genome by homologous recombination between the atpB and rbcL border sequences of the vector with the corresponding homologous regions of plastid genome; in such a way that more than one gene of interest can be expressed under the transcriptional control of the rbcL promoter adjacent to the border region that encodes for the atpB gene.
摘要:
This invention relates to the field of recombinant DNA technology. The present invention relates to the isolation of a DNA regulatory region, able to lead the expression of heterologous proteins in Pichia pastoris . In one of its aspects the invention is related to the isolation of a DNA fragment that contains the isocitrate lyase encoding gene (referred here as ICL ) from the yeast Pichia pastoris . In another aspects, this invention describes the use of a fragment derived from the described gene, which lead the expression of a foreign gene, when both are incorporated in a DNA vector and introduced in the host yeast Pichia pastoris. In this way the protein of interest is efficiently produced using this DNA fragment. In the yeast Pichia pastoris the expression of this gene is regulated in response to environmental conditions, such as the growth medium composition. The ICL expression is repressed when a carbon source like glucose is used, and induced when the carbon source present in the medium is ethanol or when the glucose is absent. An additional aspect, we have also isolated a DNA fragment consisting essentially of the Pichia pastoris ICL 3' transcription termination sequence.