The Role of PAM4 in the Management of Pancreatic Cancer: Diagnosis, Radioimmunodetection, and Radioimmunotherapy by Suxia Han, Guihua Jin, Lijuan Wang, Meng Li, Chenchen He, Xijing Guo, Qing Zhu

“…The detailed characteristic of the PAM4 epitope is unknown but recent studies have shown that it is dependent on MUC1 glycosylation status. …”
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Tau phosphorylation suppresses oxidative stress-induced mitophagy via FKBP8 receptor modulation. by Michael O Isei, Meredith Crockett, Emily Chen, Joel Rodwell-Bullock, Trae Carroll, Peter A Girardi, Keith Nehrke, Gail V W Johnson

“…Previously, we showed that tau which has been mutated at Thr-231 to glutamic acid to mimic an Alzheimer's-relevant phospho-epitope expressed early in disease selectively inhibits oxidative stress-induced mitophagy in Caenorhabditis elegans. …”
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Overcoming the Constraints of Anti-HIV/CD89 Bispecific Antibodies That Limit Viral Inhibition by Xiaocong Yu, Mark Duval, Melissa Gawron, Marshall R. Posner, Lisa A. Cavacini

“…To this end, bispecific constructs of human antibody F240, reactive with well-conserved gp41 epitope and antibody 14A8, reactive with the IgA receptor (CD89) on effector cells, were constructed. …”
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Obtaining a pancreatic cancer cell line stably expressing doxycycline-dependent endonuclease Cas9 by A.K. Nurgalieva, V.S. Skripova, L.F. Minigulova, R.G. Kiyamova

“…Cas9 endonuclease expression has been detected by the western blot analysis with antibodies to FLAG epitope. Two tumor clones of the MIA Pa-Ca2/Cas9 cell line expressing Cas9 endonuclease have been generated. …”
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Studies on the Pinctada fucata BMP-2 Gene: Structural Similarity and Functional Conservation of Its Osteogenic Potential within the Animal Kingdom by Akiko Takami, Hirotaka Kato, Ryousuke Takagi, Tomoyuki Miyashita

“…The sequence, SVPKPCCVPTELSSL, within the C-terminal portion of Pinctada fucata BMP-2, is homologous to the knuckle epitope of human BMP-2. This synthetic polypeptide was able to induce differentiation of C3H10T1/2 along the osteoblastic lineage, as confirmed by an increase in alkaline phosphatase activity, and the accumulation of calcium, as determined by von Kossa staining. …”
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Bacterial Toxin Fusion Proteins Elicit Mucosal Immunity against a Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Antigen When Administered Intranasally to Guinea Pigs by Sreerupa Challa, Steven M. Szczepanek, Debra Rood, Roger W. Barrette, Lawrence K. Silbart

“…In the current study, two different carrier/adjuvant approaches were used to augment mucosal immunity to the FMDV O1 BFS G-H loop epitope, in which the G-H loop was genetically coupled to the E. coli LT-B subunit and coexpressed with the LTA2 fragment (LTA2B-GH), or the nontoxic pseudomonas exotoxin A (ntPE) was fused to LTA2B-GH at LT-A2 to enhance receptor targeting. …”
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Swine zoonotic viruses: transmission and novel diagnostic technology by Letian Zhang, Zhiwen Jiang, Ying Qin, Yuhai Bi, Shuo Su

“…Additionally, we emphasized novel detection techniques including rapid diagnostic tests, biosensor-based detection technology, high-throughput sequencing, and systematic viral epitope scanning. These techniques are instrumental in enabling cost-effective and convenient rapid detection procedures for broader implementation across diverse regions for effective surveillance of viral epidemics. …”
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In-silico formulation of a next-generation polyvalent vaccine against multiple strains of monkeypox virus and other related poxviruses. by Abu Tayab Moin, Nurul Amin Rani, Rajesh B Patil, Tanjin Barketullah Robin, Md Asad Ullah, Zahidur Rahim, Md Foyzur Rahman, Talha Zubair, Mohabbat Hossain, A K M Moniruzzaman Mollah, Nurul Absar, Mahboob Hossain, Mohammed Abul Manchur, Nazneen Naher Islam

“…The selected virulent proteins of monkeypox virus, MPXVgp165, and Virion core protein P4a, were subjected to epitope mapping for vaccine construction. Two vaccines were constructed using selected T cell epitopes and B cell epitopes with PADRE and human beta-defensins adjuvants conjugated in the vaccine sequence. …”
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Characterization of Human Colorectal Cancer MDR1/P-gp Fab Antibody by Xuemei Zhang, Gary Guishan Xiao, Ying Gao

“…Not only was the targeted region of this monoclonal Fab antibody identified as a 16-peptide epitope (ALKDKKELEGSGKIAT) comprising residues 883–898 within the transmembrane (TM) domain of human P-gp, but also the binding ability with it was verified. …”
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Anti-PLA2R1 Antibodies Containing Sera Induce In Vitro Cytotoxicity Mediated by Complement Activation by Maël Lateb, Hajar Ouahmi, Christine Payré, Vesna Brglez, Kevin Zorzi, Guillaume Dolla, Mohamad Zaidan, Sonia Boyer-Suavet, Bertrand Knebelmann, Thomas Crépin, Cécile Courivaud, Noémie Jourde-Chiche, Vincent Esnault, Gérard Lambeau, Barbara Seitz-Polski

“…Forty-eight patients with PLA2R1-related MN from the prospective cohort SOURIS were included. Anti-PLA2R1 titer, epitope profile, and anti-PLA2R1 IgG subclasses were characterized by ELISA. …”
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Development and use of indirect liquid-phase ELISA test system for detection of PRRS virus antigen during in-process control of raw materials intended for vaccine production by Ye. P. Baborenko, O. P. Byadovskaya, D. A. Biryuchenkov, A. V. Konstantinov, R. V. Yashin

“…Complete and irreversible infectious agent inactivation with maximum epitope preservation and protective immunity in immunized animals are the main requirements for inactivated vaccines. …”
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Evaluation of B cell related markers and autoantibodies in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with abatacept by Ting Wang, Natalia V. Giltiay, Christian Lood, Ning Wang, Bobby Kwanghoon Han

“…Patients were genotyped for human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DRB1 shared epitope (SE) alleles. Baseline levels and longitudinal changes of markers were assessed between responders and nonresponders.ResultsBaseline levels of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) antibodies (p=0.01), IgM rheumatoid factor (RF) (p=0.02), CXC chemokine ligand 13 (CXCL13, p=0.02), sCD23 (p<0.05), as well as frequencies of CD19+CD11c+IgD-CD27- B cells (p=0.04), were higher in responders than nonresponders. …”
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Engineering a tumor-selective prodrug T-cell engager bispecific antibody for safer immunotherapy by Amelia C. McCue, Stephen J. Demarest, Karen J. Froning, Michael J. Hickey, Stephen Antonysamy, Brian Kuhlman

“…Here, we solve the crystal structure of the antigen-binding fragment of a novel anti-CD3 antibody, E10, in complex with its epitope from CD3 and use this information to engineer a masked form of the antibody that can activate by the tumor-enriched protease matrix metalloproteinase 2 (MMP-2). …”
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The O28 Antigen Gene Clusters of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica Serovar Dakar and Serovar Pomona Are Different by Clifford G. Clark, Christopher C. R. Grant, Keri M. Trout-Yakel, Helen Tabor, Lai-King Ng, Kris Rahn, Kristyn Franklin, Andrew M. Kropinski

“…Dakar O28 gene cluster, suggesting that the O antigen oligosaccharides may contain one or more sugars conferring the O28 epitope but may otherwise be different. These novel findings are absolutely critical for the correct interpretation of molecular serotyping assays targeting genes within the O antigen gene clusters of these Salmonella serotypes and suggest the possibility that the O antigen gene clusters of other Salmonella serovars may also be heterogenous.…”
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Immunoinformatics Approach to Design a Chimeric CD70-Peptide Vaccine against Renal Cell Carcinoma by Haideh Namdari, Farhad Rezaei, Fatemeh Heidarnejad, Mohammad Yaghoubzad-Maleki, Maryam Karamigolbaghi

“…All vaccines comprised antigenic, nontoxic, and nonallergenic epitopes, ensuring extensive global population coverage. …”
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Immunolocalization of SP22 (Park7) on the human sperm membrane is indicative of live birth by Gary R Klinefelter, Michael P Diamond, Stephen A Krawetz

“…Using a recombinant antibody to the functional epitope of SP22, we compared sperm from donors who achieved a live birth to donors who were not able to achieve a pregnancy. …”
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Antigen-Specific Gene Therapy after Immunisation Reduces the Severity of Collagen-Induced Arthritis by Tove Eneljung, Sara Tengvall, Pernilla Jirholt, Louise Henningsson, Rikard Holmdahl, Kenth Gustafsson, Inger Gjertsson

“…We have developed a model of antigen-specific tolerance in collagen type II (CII) induced arthritis (CIA) using lentivirus-based gene therapy. The immunodominant epitope of CII was inserted into a lentivirus vector to achieve expression on the MHC class II molecule and the lentiviral particles were subsequently intravenously injected at different time points during CIA. …”
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GagCM9-specific CD8+ T cells expressing limited public TCR clonotypes do not suppress SIV replication in vivo. by Lara Vojnov, Mauricio A Martins, Jorge R Almeida, Zachary Ende, Eva G Rakasz, Matthew R Reynolds, Enrique J Leon, Kim L Weisgrau, Benjamin J Burwitz, Joy M Folkvord, Marlon G Veloso de Santana, Patrícia C Costa Neves, Elizabeth Connick, Pamela J Skinner, Emma Gostick, David H O'Connor, Nancy A Wilson, Myrna C Bonaldo, Ricardo Galler, David A Price, Danny C Douek, David I Watkins

“…These seven Mamu-A*01(+) animals developed CD8(+) T cell responses against an immunodominant epitope in Gag, GagCM9, yet failed to control virus replication. …”
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NaP-TRAP reveals the regulatory grammar in 5’UTR-mediated translation regulation during zebrafish development by Ethan C. Strayer, Srikar Krishna, Haejeong Lee, Charles Vejnar, Nils Neuenkirchen, Amit Gupta, Jean-Denis Beaudoin, Antonio J. Giraldez

“…NaP-TRAP measures translation in a frame-specific manner through the immunocapture of epitope tagged nascent peptides of reporter mRNAs. …”
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Citrullinated Autoantigen–Specific T and B Lymphocytes in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Focus on Follicular T Helper Cells and Expansion by Coculture by Tim Ammon, Julia Zeiträg, Vanessa Mayr, Manuela Benedicic, Hans‐Peter Holthoff, Martin Ungerer

“…Novel combinations of major histocompatibility complex class II citrulline epitope tetramers were developed, which enabled robust detection of CAS T cells and showed increases of CAS‐naive T helper cells, Th1.17 cells, CAS total circulating T follicular helper (cTfh) cells, and cTfh1 cells in ACPA+ patients with RA. …”
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