2074 results about "Titer" patented technology

Methods and compositions disclosed herein generally relates to methods of determining minimum hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) chimerism and gene dosage for correction of a hematopoietic disease; in particular, in in vivo models. The invention also relates to modified lentiviral expression vectors for increase a viral titer and various methods for increasing such titers as well as expression vectors capable of enhancing such titers. The invention also relates to CHS4 chromatin insulator-derived functional insulator sequences. The invention further relates to methods for genetic correction of diseases or reducing symptoms thereof, such as sickle cell anemia, a lysosomal storage disease. The invention further relates to a method of improving and/or correcting one or more central nervous system (CNS) abnormalities caused by one or more lysosomal storage disease. The invention further relates to methods of improving titer in transfection-based bioreactor culture production or transfection-based production systems using eukaryotic cells.

The present invention relates to methods and compositions for use in treatment of patients with autoantibody positive disease. In a specific embodiment, the present invention relates to a method of treating a patient that has an ANA titer of 1:80 or greater and/or greater than or equal to 30 IU/ml of anti-dsDNA antibodies in his/her blood plasma or serum comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of an immunomodulatory agent, such as an antagonist of Neutrokine-alpha. Additionally provided is a method of reducing the frequency and/or quantity of corticosteroid administration to patients. In preferred embodiments, the patient has systemic lupus erythematosus. Methods for determining if a lupus patient is responding to medical treatment are also provided.

Porcine circovirus-2 (PCV-2) is a recently identified agent wherein the potential spectrum of PCV-2-associated disease has been expanded by evidence of vertical and sexual transmission and associated reproductive failure in swine populations. PCV-2 was isolated from a litter of aborted piglets from a farm experiencing late term abortions and stillbirths. Severe, diffuse myocarditis was present in one piglet associated with extensive immunohistochemical staining for PCV-2 antigen. Variable amounts of PCV-2 antigen were also present in liver, lung and kidney of multiple fetuses. Inoculation of female pigs with a composition including an immunogen from PCV-2 or an epitope of interest from such an immunogen or with a vector expressing such an immunogen or epitope of interest prior to breeding, such as within the first five weeks of life, or prior to the perinatal period, or repeatedly over a lifetime, or during pregnancy, such as between the 6and 8and/or the 10and 13weeks of gestation, can lower viral titer, prevent myocarditis, abortion and intrauterine infection associated with porcine circovirus-2. In addition, innoculation of male and/or female pigs with the aforementioned compositions can be carried out to prevent transmission of PCV-2 from male to female (or vice versa) during mating. Thus, the invention involves methods and compositions for preventing myocarditis, abortion and intrauterine infection associated with porcine circovirus-2.

The invention relates to methods of improving protein production, e.g., large-scale commercial protein production, e.g., antibody production, utilizing a modified fed-batch cell culture method comprising a cell growth phase and a polypeptide production phase. The modified fed-batch cell culture method combines both cell culture perfusion and fed-batch methods to achieve higher titers of polypeptide products. Because the modified fed-batch cell culture method of the invention produces higher polypeptide product titers than fed-batch culture alone, it will substantially improve commercial-scale protein production. The invention also relates to a perfusion bioreactor apparatus comprising a fresh medium reservoir connected to a bioreactor by a feed pump, a recirculation loop connected to the bioreactor, wherein the recirculation loop comprises a filtration device, e.g., ultrafiltration or microfiltration, and a permeate pump connecting the filtration device to a permeate collection container.

The present invention describes methods and processes for the production of proteins, particularly glycoproteins, by animal cell or mammalian cell culture, preferably, but not limited to, fed-batch cell cultures. In one aspect, the methods comprise at least two temperature shifts performed during the culturing period, in which the temperature is lower at the end of the culturing period than at the time of initial cell culture. Throughout their duration, the culturing processes of the invention involving two or more downward shifts in temperature sustain a high viability of the cultured cells, and can yield an increased end titer of protein product, and a high quality of protein product, as determined, e.g., by sialic acid content of the produced protein. In another aspect, the methods comprise the delayed addition of polyanionic compound during the culturing period. The delayed addition of polyanionic compound sustains a high viability of the cultured cells, and can extend the growth phase, delay the onset of the death phase, and arrest the death phase.

The present invention encompasses novel antibodies and fragments thereof which immunospecifically bind to one or more RSV antigens and compositions comprising said antibodies and antibody fragments. The present invention encompasses methods preventing respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection in a human, comprising administering to said human a prophylactically effective amount of one or more antibodies or fragments thereof that immunospecifically bind to one or more RSV antigens, wherein a certain serum titer of said antibodies or antibody fragments is achieved in said human subject. The present invention also encompasses methods for treating or ameliorating symptoms associated with a RSV infection in a human, comprising administering to said human a therapeutically effective amount of one or more antibodies or fragments thereof that immunospecifically bind to one or more RSV antigens, wherein a certain serum titer of said antibodies or antibody fragments is achieved in said human subject. The present invention further encompasses compositions comprising antibodies or fragments thereof that immunospecifically bind to a RSV antigen, and methods using said compositions for detection or diagnosis a RSV infection

The invention relates to a method for preparing health-benefiting fermented soybean meal enriched in small peptides, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), reducing sugar, lactobacillus plantarum and antimicrobial peptide. By utilizing strains of aspergillus oryzae, saccharomyces cerevisiae, bacillus subtilis and lactobacillus plantarum, the small peptides, free amino acids, reducing sugar, GABA and high viable count content in the lactobacillus plantarum in the health-benefiting fermented soybean meal are obtained through the two-stage solid state fermentation method, the small peptides account for 8.01-18 percent, the free amino acids has the content of 80-300mg/g, the reducing sugar reaches 20-80mg/g, the GABA reaches 0.317-0.5mg/g, the viable count content in the lactobacillus plantarum is 2-6.5*1010cfu/g, the antibacterial titer of antimicrobial peptides is 2.0*103-7.0*104 IU/g, and the yield of the health-benefiting fermented soybean meal is 82.03-90 percent. According to the process, the nutrient effect of the soybean meal can be improved, the prepared fermented soybean meal has the antibacterial effect, partial antibiotics can be replaced, the fermented soybean meal is conveniently preserved and saved, the process is simple and feasible, and the fermented soybean meal is green and environment-friendly and has application significance and wide prospect in the feed industry and breeding industry.

The invention provides a hybridoma cell line 1C11 and an anti-aflatoxin general monoclonal antibody secreted by the same as well as the applications thereof. The hybridoma cell line 1C11 can be used for preparing a high-titer aflatoxin antibody, and a mouse hydroperitoneum antibody is measured to reach 5.12*106 by using an ELISA (Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay). The anti-aflatoxin general monoclonal antibody has high sensitivity, respectively reaches the IC50 (50% inhibiting concentration) of aflatoxin B1, B2, G1 and G2 to be 1.2, 1.3, 2.2 and 18.0 pg/mL, is the antibody with highest sensitivity among currently reported four aflatoxin antibodies, is used for measuring the total aflatoxin amounts, i.e. the total amounts of the aflatoxin B1, B2, G1 and G2 and has great practical application values.

The present invention relates to methods and compositions for increasing the production of high titre stocks of recombinant AAV (rAAV) through regulation of expression of the AAV REP and CAP proteins. The methods and compositions of the invention are based on the observation that the low level expression of the AAV REP 78/68 protein increases the production of AAV viral capsid protein and efficiency of packaging resulting in production of higher titre recombinant viral stocks. The invention encompasses recombinant AAV vectors that direct the expression of AAV REP and CAP proteins and the use of such vectors for the production of novel stable cell lines capable of generating high titre rAAV vectors. The invention provides methods for regulating the expression of the AAV REP 78/68, REP 40/52 and CAP gene at the transcriptional and post-translational level. The methods and compositions of the invention can be used to produce high titre stocks of rAAV which can be used in gene therapy for the purpose of transferring genetic information into appropriate host cells for the management and correction of human diseases including inherited and acquired disorders.

This invention relates to methods for rationally designing cell culture media for use in cell cultures, e.g., cell cultures employed in polypeptide production; cell culture media designed with the disclosed methods; methods of producing a polypeptide of interest, e.g., an antibody, using such media; polypeptides produced using the methods and media disclosed herein; and pharmaceuticals compositions containing such polypeptides. The rationally designed media contain a concentration of an amino acid that is calculated for use in cell mass, a concentration of the amino acid that is calculated for use in cell maintenance, and a concentration of the amino acid that is calculated for incorporation into the polypeptide of interest. The rationally designed media may contain a baseline-adjusted concentration, A, of at least one amino acid that is calculated according to the formula A=[(M*X)+(N*P)+(Y*M*X)]*F, wherein X is the concentration of the amino acid that is used per unit of cell mass, P is the concentration of the amino acid that is used for incorporation into the polypeptide of interest per unit of polypeptide titer, M is the multiplier for the desired peak cell density of the cell culture, N is the multiplier for the desired concentration of the polypeptide of interest, Y is the cell maintenance factor; and F is the baseline factor. This rationally designed media may also be used to produce a starting cell culture medium comprising a concentration, B, of at least one amino acid according to the formula B=[A−(Z*V)]/(1−V), wherein Z is a concentration of the amino acid in the feeding cell culture medium, and V is a volume of the feeding culture medium as a proportion of the desired cell culture medium volume.

A VII gene type of an attenuated strain of Newcastle disease virus A-NDV-VII and a construction method are disclosed. The invention relates to the application of reverse genetics technique. The invention uses the constructed reverse genetics platform of ZJ1 strain of Newcastle disease virus of goose origin. The invention replaces two envelope glycoprotein gene fragments F and HN of an isolated strain JS-5-05-Go of Newcastle disease virus with high reproductive performance with the corresponding fragments of the ZJ1 strain of Newcastle disease virus of goose origin, so that the recombinant virus NDV-VII is obtained. The VII gene type of Newcastle disease virus A-NDV-VII which is highly attenuated is rescued after the attenuated mutation of the F gene of the recombinant virus. And the virus has a higher reproduction titer on chicken embryo. The invention is suitable for a mass production of vaccine, which can be used for the manufacture of vaccine.

The invention discloses a carbamazepine immunogen, a carbamazepine specific antibody directly obtained through the immunogen, a detection reagent containing the specific antibody and a method for detecting the content of the carbamazepine in samples to be tested. The immunodetection reagent and the detection method have the advantages that the carbamazepine immunogen is strong in specificity and high in immunogenicity; the prepared carbamazepine immunogen is strong in specificity and high in titer and has no cross reaction with 45 common drugs; the homogeneous enzyme immunodetection reagent containing the carbamazepine specific antibody can conveniently, fast and accurately determine the content of the carbamazepine in the samples and can measure a plurality of samples simultaneously on a full-automatic biochemical analyzer, so that high-throughput and fast measuring of the carbamazepine are achieved, the accuracy is high, the specificity is strong, the accuracy and the detection efficiency are greatly improved compared with the prior art, full automation in the detection process is achieved simultaneously, the requirements on detection staff is not high, and the immunodetection reagent and the detection method are easy to achieve, popularize and use.