Cloning and mutation of chinese hamster ovary cell elongation factor (cej) of vibrio cholerae

Cholera caused by toxigenic Vibrio cholerae is a major public health problem confronting developing countries, where outbreaks occur in a regular seasonal pattern and are particularly associated with poverty and poor sanitation. The disease is characterized by a devastating watery diarrhea which...

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Main Author: Alan, Jaime Jacqueline Ja Yap
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Published: 2005
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spelling my-usm-ep.475182020-10-13T06:50:31Z Cloning and mutation of chinese hamster ovary cell elongation factor (cej) of vibrio cholerae 2005 Alan, Jaime Jacqueline Ja Yap R Medicine Cholera caused by toxigenic Vibrio cholerae is a major public health problem confronting developing countries, where outbreaks occur in a regular seasonal pattern and are particularly associated with poverty and poor sanitation. The disease is characterized by a devastating watery diarrhea which leads to rapid dehydration, and death occurs in 50 to 70% of untreated patients. Prophylactic vaccination for cholera was initially thought as a means of control programme. Although cholera vaccine strains have been constructed with all known toxin (El Tor hemolysin, CT, Zot, and Ace) genes deleted or inactivated, some volunteers fed with these strain still develop diarrhea probably due to the presence of cell- associated CHO cell- elongating factor, cef In this study we therefore, have tried to clone and mutate this cef gene with the hope of eliminating its residual diarrheagenic effect, thus the development of improved VCUSM2 and VCUSM4 vaccine candidates. Accordingly, the cef factor was amplified from wild type Vibrio cholerae which was subsequently cloned into a cloning vector, pTZ57R/T at Eco321 site. The cef gene in pTZ57R was digested with Psyl enzyme, to allowing insertional mutational ligation to occur at this site. The PCR amplified kan resistance gene cassette from pTOP02.1 was used to insertionally mutate the cef gene as well as a marker for selection fallowing transformation. The selected clones with kan marker were screened by PCR for confirmation and subsequently verified by DNA sequencing 2005 Thesis http://eprints.usm.my/47518/ http://eprints.usm.my/47518/1/Jaime%20Jacquline%20Jayapalan-24%20pages.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Sains Malaysia Pusat Pengajian Sains Kesihatan
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Alan, Jaime Jacqueline Ja Yap
Cloning and mutation of chinese hamster ovary cell elongation factor (cej) of vibrio cholerae
description Cholera caused by toxigenic Vibrio cholerae is a major public health problem confronting developing countries, where outbreaks occur in a regular seasonal pattern and are particularly associated with poverty and poor sanitation. The disease is characterized by a devastating watery diarrhea which leads to rapid dehydration, and death occurs in 50 to 70% of untreated patients. Prophylactic vaccination for cholera was initially thought as a means of control programme. Although cholera vaccine strains have been constructed with all known toxin (El Tor hemolysin, CT, Zot, and Ace) genes deleted or inactivated, some volunteers fed with these strain still develop diarrhea probably due to the presence of cell- associated CHO cell- elongating factor, cef In this study we therefore, have tried to clone and mutate this cef gene with the hope of eliminating its residual diarrheagenic effect, thus the development of improved VCUSM2 and VCUSM4 vaccine candidates. Accordingly, the cef factor was amplified from wild type Vibrio cholerae which was subsequently cloned into a cloning vector, pTZ57R/T at Eco321 site. The cef gene in pTZ57R was digested with Psyl enzyme, to allowing insertional mutational ligation to occur at this site. The PCR amplified kan resistance gene cassette from pTOP02.1 was used to insertionally mutate the cef gene as well as a marker for selection fallowing transformation. The selected clones with kan marker were screened by PCR for confirmation and subsequently verified by DNA sequencing
format Thesis
qualification_level Master's degree
author Alan, Jaime Jacqueline Ja Yap
author_facet Alan, Jaime Jacqueline Ja Yap
author_sort Alan, Jaime Jacqueline Ja Yap
title Cloning and mutation of chinese hamster ovary cell elongation factor (cej) of vibrio cholerae
title_short Cloning and mutation of chinese hamster ovary cell elongation factor (cej) of vibrio cholerae
title_full Cloning and mutation of chinese hamster ovary cell elongation factor (cej) of vibrio cholerae
title_fullStr Cloning and mutation of chinese hamster ovary cell elongation factor (cej) of vibrio cholerae
title_full_unstemmed Cloning and mutation of chinese hamster ovary cell elongation factor (cej) of vibrio cholerae
title_sort cloning and mutation of chinese hamster ovary cell elongation factor (cej) of vibrio cholerae
granting_institution Universiti Sains Malaysia
granting_department Pusat Pengajian Sains Kesihatan
publishDate 2005
url http://eprints.usm.my/47518/1/Jaime%20Jacquline%20Jayapalan-24%20pages.pdf
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