Abstract:
This invention relates to a method for expressing a gene in a cell. The method includes introducing into a cell an agent that inhibits one or both of miRNA pathway and antiviral defense pathway; and a baculovirus that contains a nucleic acid molecule including a gene operably linked to a promoter; and expressing the gene in the cell.
Abstract:
The invention relates to the promoter of a rice glycine-rich RNA binding protein gene and its use for expression of heterologous proteins in plant tissues, including tissues of the plant embryo and seedling.
Abstract:
Green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene was transplanted into baculovirus. The baculovirus was used to infect pests of vegetable crops. Three to five days after infection, the infected insects were found to emit strong fluorescence when exposed to a portable UV light. Therefore the spreading of baculovirus infection and disease progression can be effectively detected in the field. In addition, the GFP reduced UV damage to the baculovirus. As a result, GFP can increase the retention time of the virus as a pesticide in the field.
Abstract:
Recombinant baculoviruses, virus-like particles, and polypeptide that contain a protein sequence of a heterologous virus, related compositions, and related preparation, screening, delivery, detection, and treatment methods.
Abstract:
Recombinant baculoviruses, virus-like particles, and polypeptide that contain a protein sequence of a heterologous virus, related compositions, and related preparation, screening, delivery, detection, and treatment methods.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a method for expressing a gene in a cell. The method includes introducing into a cell an agent that inhibits one or both of miRNA pathway and antiviral defense pathway; and a baculovirus that contains a nucleic acid molecule including a gene operably linked to a promoter; and expressing the gene in the cell.
Abstract:
Disclosed are recombinant non-insect host cells and use of activation of CMV or SV40 promoters by IE1, IE2 and the enhancer hr of the baculovirus in non-insect host cells for expression heterologous RNAs or polypeptides. Also disclosed are methods of using the cells.
Abstract:
A fusion protein containing a polyhedrin of a virus and a foreign polypeptide sequence. Also disclosed are a recombinant occlusion body containing the fusion protein, an isolated nucleic acid containing a sequence encoding the fusion protein, and a recombinant virus containing the nucleic acid. Within the scope of this invention are related expression vectors, host cells, compositions, and preparation methods.
Abstract:
Disclosed and claimed is the promoter, full-length or truncated, of the persistence-associated gene 1 (pag1) of Hz-1 virus, vectors containing the promoter, including with exogenous coding DNA, methods employing the vectors, compositions employing the vectors and products therefrom, and probes and primers for the promoter or functional fragment thereof. The promoter of pag1 gene is strong and if not comparable, it is better than the promoter activity demonstrated in the polyhedrin gene in insect cells. In addition, the pag1 promoter can be expressed more prominently as a short promoter. The pag1 promoter can also be expressed in transient transfected and permanently transfected cells. Further, the pag1 promoter can also be expressed when it is inserted into other viruses, such as Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus. The pag1 promoter has also been shown to express foreign genes strongly, such as in lacZ and luciferase. pag1 is driven by a constitutively expressed early type promoter, thus facilitating expression much earlier than the polyhedrin gene promoter.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a new, effective and general methodology to prevent viral infection, which methodology is divided into two parts: 1) induction of the apoptosis (programmed cell death) of a host upon viral infection to block viral reproduction; and 2) the use of an apoptosis triggering gene, the persistency-associated gene 1 (pag1, now renamed as hem1 in light of the position thereof in the restriction map of the Hz-1 viral genome) to prevent the viral infection.