CTXP, The Major Cobra Toxin Peptide from Venom; A Promising Target for Antivenom Agent Development.

Background And Objective: Snakebite envenoming is a serious public health issue causing more than 135,000 annual deaths worldwide. is one of the most clinically important venomous snakes in Iran and Central Asia. Conventional animal-derived polyclonal antibodies are the major treatment of snakebite envenoming.

Potential aggregation hot spots in recombinant human keratinocyte growth factor: a computational study.

The recombinant human keratinocyte growth factor (rhKGF) is a highly aggregation-prone therapeutic protein. The high aggregation liability of rhKGF is manifested by loss of the monomeric state, and accumulation of the aggregated species even at moderate temperatures. Here, we analyzed the rhKGF for its vulnerability toward aggregation by detection of aggregation-prone regions (APRs) using several sequence-based computational tools including TANGO, ZipperDB, AGGRESCAN, Zyggregator, Camsol, PASTA, SALSA, WALTZ, SODA, Amylpred, AMYPDB, and structure-based tools including SolubiS, CamSol structurally corrected, Aggrescan3D and spatial aggregation propensity (SAP) algorithm.

In silico analysis of different signal peptides for the secretory production of recombinant human keratinocyte growth factor in Escherichia coli.

Background: The recombinant human truncated Keratinocyte growth factor (Palifermin) is the only FDA approved medicine for the treatment of oral mucositis. The Keratinocyte growth factor is a fairly unstable protein due to its high aggregation propensity and therefore its expression as a secretory protein may results in the production of a protein with more stability, higher solubility, better folding, enhanced biological activity, N-terminal authenticity and simplified downstream processing.

Objective: The aim of this study was in silico evaluation of 31 different secretory signal peptides to determine the best theoretical candidates for the secretory production of recombinant truncated human KGF in E.

A Novel Prokaryotic Green Fluorescent Protein Expression System for Testing Gene Editing Tools Activity Like Zinc Finger Nuclease.

Background: Gene editing technology has created a revolution in the field of genome editing. The three of the most famous tools in gene editing technology are zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs), transcription activator-like effector nucleases, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR), and CRISPR-associated systems. As their predictable nature, it is necessary to assess their efficiency.

Zinc Finger Nuclease: A New Approach to Overcome Beta-Lactam Antibiotic Resistance.

Background: The evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic-resistance genes (ARGs) has been accelerated recently by the indiscriminate application of antibiotics. Antibiotic resistance has challenged the success of medical interventions and therefore is considered a hazardous threat to human health.

Objectives: The present study aimed to describe the use of zinc finger nuclease (ZFN) technology to target and disrupt a plasmid-encoded β-lactamase, which prevents horizontal gene transfer-mediated evolution of ARBs.