A panel of monoclonal nanobodies (VHH) specific to poliovirus Sabin strains types 2 and 3 has been generated and characterized. For poliovirus Sabin type 2, a panel of four serotype-specific single-domain antibodies was obtained. Notably, two of thes...
Background/Objectives: Recombinant poliovirus (PV) virus-like particle (VLP) antigens mimic the conformation of the surface proteins in native PVs (i.e., serotype-specific D-antigen epitopes). Since they lack genomes and are non-infectious, PV-VLPs o...
Vaccination remains the primary strategy for poliomyelitis prevention. The D-antigen of poliovirus is a critical component of inactivated polio vaccines, as it induces the production of neutralizing antibodies and provides protective immunity. Theref...
Background/Objectives: The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the use of attenuated Sabin strains for the production of inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), offering improved biosafety while retaining immunogenicity. To better characterize t...
Background and Objectives: The Rh blood group system is highly polymorphic, and accurate classification of Rh(D) variants is critical in transfusion medicine to prevent alloimmunization and optimize blood utilization. Despite the advances in conventi...
Background/Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of identifying factors influencing disease susceptibility and severity. This study investigates the association of ABO blood groups, the D antigen, and comorbidities such as...
The high-resolution magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (HR-MAS NMR) analysis of Plesiomonas shigelloides 78/89 lipopolysaccharide directly on bacteria revealed the characteristic structural features of the O-acetylated polys...
CD1 molecules present lipid antigens to T-cells in early stages of immune responses. Whereas CD1‒lipid‒T-cell receptors interactions are reasonably understood, molecular details on initial trafficking and loading of lipids onto CD1 proteins are less...
Some immune escape mutants of H9N2 virus and the corresponding mutations in hemagglutinin (HA) have been documented, but little is known about the impact of a single mutation on the antigenicity and pathogenesis of H9N2. In this study, seven critical...
Introduction: The melanoma-associated antigen D2 (MAGED2) is one of the melanoma-associated antigen family members. It is commonly overexpressed in a variety of malignancies. However, the mechanism and function of MAGED2 in glioma remain unknown. Met...
Influenza D virus (IDV), which is a new member of the Orthomyxoviridae family, is potentially involved in bovine respiratory diseases (BRDs). Bovine IDVs (BIDVs) from Japan have been distributed nationwide since 2010 and are genetically distinct from...
Semen identification in forensic samples using prostate-specific antigen (PSA) overcomes limitations of conventional methods such as UV illumination and spermatozoa detection. In this study, we describe an antibody microarray for the quantitative imm...
The incorporation of novel agents in recent treatments in multiple myeloma (MM) has improved the clinical outcome of patients. Specifically, the approval of monoclonal antibody (MoAb) against CD38 (daratumumab) and SLAMF7 (elotuzumab) in relapsed and...
The Rh system, including the highly immunogenic D antigen, is one of the clinically most important blood group systems in transfusion medicine. Numerous alleles of the RHD gene are associated with variant RhD phenotypes. In case of Rh incompatibility...
We investigated the impact of synthetic nucleic acid antigens on the autoantibody profiles in patients with localized scleroderma, an autoimmune skin disease. Anti-DNA antibodies, including double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) and single-stranded DNA (ssDNA),...
NKG2D is an activating receptor of natural killer cells that recognizes stress-induced ligands (NKG2DL) expressed by many tumor cells. Nevertheless, NKG2DL downregulation or shedding can still allow cancer cells to evade immune surveillance. Here, we...
We have proposed that antigen-specific immunotherapies (ASIs) for autoimmune diseases could be enhanced by administering target cell antigen epitopes (determinants) that are immunogenic but ignored by autoreactive T cells because these determinants m...
Fungal sepsis is one of the major problems in neonatal and pediatric care unit settings. The availability of new diagnostic techniques could allow medical practitioners to rapidly identify septic patients and to improve their outcome. The aim of this...
Buffy Coats, generated from a blood donor’s whole blood bag unit, are commonly used in biomedical research as a source of leukocytes due to the high number of cells that can be recovered from each Buffy Coat. Buffy Coats are leukocyte-enriched...
Authorized SARS-CoV-2 vaccines elicit both antibody and T-cell responses; however, benchmark correlates and update decisions have largely emphasized neutralizing antibodies. Motivated by the complementary role of cellular immunity, we designed a prot...
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) protein subunit vaccine is one of the mainstream technology platforms for the development of COVID-19 vaccines, and most R&D units use the receptor-binding domain (RBD) or spike (S)...
The traditional method used in the production of inactivated vaccines is chemical inactivation using beta-propiolactone or formaldehyde. An alternative method is inactivation by irradiation. Virus inactivation is often accompanied by a change in part...
Cancer immunotherapy using antigen-pulsed dendritic cells can induce strong cellular immune responses by priming cytotoxic T lymphocytes. In this study, we pulsed tumor cell lysates with VP-R8, a cell-penetrating D-octaarginine-linked co-polymer of N...
Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1D) is an autoimmune disease characterized by the destruction of pancreatic β-cells, predominantly manifesting in childhood or adolescence. The lack of clearly interpretable biological markers in the early stages, comb...
Major histocompatibility complex class 1 chain-related gene sequence A is a polymorphic gene found at about 46.6 kb centromeric to HLA-B. It encodes a transmembrane protein, which is a non-classical human leukocyte antigen whose expression is normall...
The combination of supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) with the Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation monitoring (QCM-D) has been proven to be a powerful tool to simultaneously monitor mass and viscoelastic changes related to membrane binding-even...
Structural studies of ternary complexes of CD1d/glycosyl ceramides/iNKT cells and CD1d/sulfatide/sulfatide reactive Type II NKT cells have shown how the polar moieties on the glycolipids interact with both the antigen presenting protein (CD1d) and th...
In this paper, we present a sensitive and highly reproducible fluorescence immunosensor for detecting PSA in human serum. A unique feature of this study is that it uses creatively designed paddle screw-type devices and their custom-made rotating syst...
Specific proteolytic cleavages turn on, modify, or turn off the activity of vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGFs). Proteolysis is most prominent among the lymphangiogenic VEGF-C and VEGF-D, which are synthesized as precursors that need to unde...
Background/Objectives: Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy has demonstrated impressive clinical results against hematological malignancies. However, currently commercialized CAR-T therapies are designed for autologous use, which entails so...
Background: We aimed to investigate the changes of inflammatory status reflected by serum levels of chitotriosidase (CHT) and neopterin, and how specific tumor markers such as neuron-specific enolase (NSE) and squamous cell carcinoma antigen (SCCA),...
After years of global collaboration; we are steps away from a polio-free world. However, the currently conventional inactivated polio vaccine (cIPV) is suboptimal for the post eradication era. cIPV production cost and biosafety hazards hinder its ava...
Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR T)-cell therapy has become a standard treatment option for patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (r/r DLBCL). Mutations in the PPM1D gene, a frequent driver alteration in clonal hematopoie...
Rapid and reliable Rhesus D typing is crucial for blood donation centers. In instances of massive blood transfusion or reduced antigen expression, DNA-based phenotype prediction becomes mandatory. Our molecular RHD typing approach involves an initial...
In the present work, we performed immunochemical studies of LPS, especially the O-specific polysaccharide (O-PS) of Aeromonas veronii bv. sobria strain K133, which was isolated from the kidney of carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) during an outbreak of motile...
Francisella tularensis (F. tularensis) is an intracellular pathogen that causes a potentially debilitating febrile illness known as tularemia. F. tularensis can be spread by aerosol transmission and cause fatal pneumonic tularemia. If untreated, mort...
Serum albumin (SA) plays a fundamental role in the transport of metabolites and endogenous ligands. Additionally, animal albumins are potent allergens. Heterologous expression of SAs is challenging due to their complex structure. In this study, we de...
The immune system plays a major role in protecting the host against viral infection. Rapid initial protection is conveyed by innate immune cells, while adaptive immunity (including T lymphocytes) requires several days to develop, yet provides high sp...
Autoantibodies targeting islet antigen 2 (IA2) are critical diagnostic and prognostic markers for type 1 diabetes (T1D). Standard clinical assays do not differentiate between IgG and IgM isotypes, yet these antibodies have distinct roles in the T1D a...
Plasmodium vivax Cysteine-Rich Protective Antigen (CyRPA) is a merozoite protein participating in the parasite invasion of human reticulocytes. During natural P. vivax infection, antibody responses against PvCyRPA have been detected. In children, low...
Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) accumulate in the solid tumor microenvironment (TME) and have been shown to promote tumor growth and dampen antitumor immune responses. TAM-mediated suppression of T-cell antitumor reactivity is considered to be a...
Brucellosis in animals is an infectious disease caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella. Known methods for diagnosing brucellosis face some challenges, due to the difficulties in isolating and standardizing the natural brucellosis antigen. In this w...
Along with their excellent safety profiles, subunit vaccines are typically characterized by much weaker immunogenicity and protection efficacy compared to whole-pathogen vaccines. Here, we present an approach aimed at bridging this disadvantage that...
The amyloid-beta peptide (Aβ) is the neurotoxic component in senile plaques of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) brains. Previously we have reported that Aβ toxicity is mediated by the induction of sonic hedgehog (SHH) to trigger cell cycle re...
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most lethal solid malignancies, characterised by rising incidence, poor long-term survival, and profound resistance to systemic therapy. Its poor prognosis reflects late diagnosis, early metastati...
Background: Hepatitis D virus (HDV) causes one of the most severe forms of chronic viral hepatitis. Despite its severity, universal screening of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)-positive individuals, as recommended by European guidelines, is not w...
It is unknown if vitamin D (vitD) sufficiency in breastfeeding mothers can lead to physiological outcomes for their children that are discernible from infant vitD sufficiency per se. In a 3-month, randomized vitD supplementation study of mothers and...
Aim: To evaluate the usefulness of serum squamous-cell carcinoma antigen (SCC-Ag) and 2-[18F]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT) for the detection of recurrent squamous-cell carcinoma (SqCC) of the u...
Due to the high morbidity and mortality rates of invasive aspergillosis (IA) and the importance of early IA detection for successful treatment and subsequent outcome, this study aimed to determine a time course of detectable antigen in a mouse model...
Poliovirus (PV) is on the brink of eradication due to global vaccination programs utilizing live-attenuated oral and inactivated polio vaccines. Recombinant PV virus-like particles (VLPs) are emerging as a safe next-generation vaccine candidate for t...
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