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A Novel Molecular Design for a Hybrid Phage-DNA Construct Against DKK1

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A Novel Molecular Design for a Hybrid Phage-DNA Construct Against DKK1
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Molecular Biotechnology, September 2018
DOI 10.1007/s12033-018-0115-2
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Saeed Khalili, Mohamad Javad Rasaee, Taravat Bamdad, Maysam Mard-Soltani, Majid Asadi Ghalehni, Abolfazl Jahangiri, Mohammad Hassan Pouriayevali, Mohammad Reza Aghasadeghi, Fatemeh Malaei

Abstract

Nucleic acid immunization has recently exhibited a great promise for immunotherapy of various diseases. However, it is now clear that powerful strategies are imminently needed to improve their efficiency. In this regard, whole bacteriophage particles have been described as efficient DNA vaccine delivery vehicles, capable of circumventing the limitations of naked DNA immunization. Moreover, phage particles could be engineered to display specific peptides on their surfaces. Given these inherent characteristics of phages, we have designed a novel hybrid phage-DNA immunization vector using both M13 and pAAV plasmid elements. Following the construction and in vitro confirmation of the designed vectors, they were used for comparative mice immunization, carrying the same DNA sequence. The results indicated the efficacy of the designed hybrid phage particles, to elicit higher humoral immunity, in comparison to conventional DNA-immunization vectors (pCI). In light of these findings, it could be concluded that using adeno-associated virus (AAV) expression cassette along with displaying TAT peptide on the surface of the phage particle could be deemed as an appealing strategy to enhance the DNA-immunization and vaccination efficacy.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 6 32%
Student > Master 3 16%
Researcher 2 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 6 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 5 26%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 21%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 1 5%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 6 32%
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