Publications by authors named "Shijun Bao"

(MS) is an important pathogen that can cause respiratory diseases in poultry and birds, leading to serious economic losses in the world and impacting the development of the poultry industry. However, the pathogenic mechanisms of MS infection are still unclear, resulting in a lack of effective diagnosis and treatment strategies. This study aimed to uncover the infection effect caused by MS in chicken oviduct cells.

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viral hemorrhagic disease (McVHD), caused by the hemorrhagic disease virus (McHDV), is an acute and highly fatal infectious disease of musk deer. At present, there is no prevention or treatment for this disease. In this study, we constructed a recombinant bacmid containing the gene and obtained the recombinant baculovirus rBac-McHDV VP60 by transfection into Sf9 () insect cells.

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Mycoplasma synoviae is a significant avian pathogen responsible for chronic respiratory diseases, arthritis, and infectious synovitis in chickens and turkeys. These infections result in substantial economic losses to the global poultry industry. Dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase (E2) is a multifunctional protein that plays an indispensable role in energy metabolism and redox balance and is also a key virulence factor of various pathogens.

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Mycoplasma synoviae is an important avian pathogen that causes respiratory infections and arthritis symptoms in chickens and turkeys, resulting in significant economic damage to the poultry farming industry worldwide. Cell adhesion is a vital stage of Mycoplasma infection, and the proteins associated with this process play an important role in its pathogenesis. Elongation factor thermo stable (EF-Ts) is an important factor in prokaryotic biosynthesis that serves as a guanosine exchange factor for elongation factor thermo unstable (EF-Tu).

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Lung cancer (LC) is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Radiotherapy is the main component of LC treatment; however, its efficacy is often limited by radioresistance development, resulting in unsatisfactory clinical outcomes. Here, we found that LC radiosensitivity is up-regulated by decreased expression of long-chain acyl-CoA synthase 6 (ACSL6) after irradiation.

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Feline calicivirus (FCV) is a prevalent and impactful viral pathogen affecting domestic cats. As an RNA virus, FCV exhibits high mutability and genetic plasticity, enabling its persistence within cat populations. Viral genetic diversity is associated with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations, ranging from asymptomatic infections and mild oral and upper respiratory tract diseases to the potential development of virulent systemic, and even fatal conditions.

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() is an important pathogen that causes a variety of diseases, such as bovine respiratory diseases and causes significant losses to the national cattle industry every year, seriously affecting the development of the cattle industry worldwide. The pathogenic mechanism of infection is still unknown, which leads to the lack of timely diagnosis and treatment. In this study, embryonic bovine lung (EBL) cells, infected with were collected for gene profiling and detection of marker genes in the mTOR signaling pathway.

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Mycoplasma synoviae (MS) is an important pathogen which causes huge economic losses to the poultry industry worldwide, and research on MS can provide the foundation for diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of MS infection. In this study, primers designed based on the sequences of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) E1 alpha and beta subunit genes (pdhA and pdhB, respectively) of MS 53 strain(AE017245.1) in GenBank were used to amplify the pdhA and pdhB genes of MS WVU1853 strain through PCR.

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Influenza is an acute respiratory infection caused by the influenza virus, and vaccination against influenza is considered the best way to prevent the onset and spread. MDCK (Madin-Darby canine kidney) cells are typically used to isolate the influenza virus, however, their high tumorigenicity is the main controversy in the production of influenza vaccines. Here, MDCK-C09 and MDCK-C35 monoclonal cell lines were established, which were proven to be low in tumorigenicity.

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Moschus chrysogaster (sifanicus) viral hemorrhagic disease (McVHD) is an acute and highly lethal infectious disease caused by Moschus chrysogaster hemorrhagic disease virus (McHDV) whose genome sequence is highly homologous with rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus. To screen the protective antigen of McHDV and set the basis for study of McVHD vaccine, the antigen epitope of major structural protein VP60 of McHDV was analyzed, and the specific primers were designed to obtain three amplified DNA sequences encoding the main antigen epitope of VP60 from McHDV by using RT-PCR. Then the three DNA fragments were sequenced and cloned to prokaryotic expression vector with pET-28a(+) by using overlap extension PCR, and finally the prokaryotic expression plasmid pET-truncated-VP60 was constructed.

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Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) is the causative agent of rabbit hemorrhagic disease (RHD), and its infection results in mortality of 70-90% in farmed and wild rabbits. RHDV is thought to replicate strictly in rabbits. However, there are also reports showing that gene segments from the RHDV genome or antibodies against RHDV have been detected in other animals.

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We report here the isolation, sequencing of the complete closed genome, and annotation of strain GS1. This strain was isolated from the liver lesion of a yak in Gansu Province, China. The genome consists of one chromosome with 2,738,835 bp and comprises 2,304 protein-coding genes.

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Brucellosis is an important zoonotic disease worldwide, caused by Brucella spp., which are facultative intracellular bacteria with no classic virulence factors, as virulence is dependent on the ability to invade and replicate within host cells. In this study, we identified a novel gene bab_RS22045 that encodes a small highly conserved protein in Rhizobiales.

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Mycoplasma bovis is an extremely small cell wall-deficient pathogenic bacterium in the genus Mycoplasma that causes serious economic losses to the cattle industry worldwide. Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (FBA), a key enzyme in the glycolytic pathway, is a multifunctional protein in several pathogenic bacterial species, but its role in M. bovis remains unknown.

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The widespread avian pathogen Mycoplasma gallisepticum is a causative agent of respiratory disease. The wall-less prokaryotes lack some tricarboxylic acid cycle enzymes, therefore, the glycolysis metabolic pathway is of great importance to these organisms. Pyruvate kinase (PK) is one of the key enzymes of the glycolytic pathway, and its immunological characteristics in Mycoplasma are not well known.

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Triosephosphate isomerase (Tpi) is a glycolytic enzyme that is essential for efficient energy production in many pathogens. However, its function in Mycoplasma gallisepticum has not been fully elucidated. In this study, the mga0357 gene of M.

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Mycoplasma gallisepticum infections impose a significant economic burden on the poultry industry. In the current study, a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay was developed and optimized to detect M. gallisepticum based on a gene within the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, the pdhA gene, which codes for the major subunit (E1α) in the complex.

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Background: Mycoplasma synoviae is an avian pathogen that can lead to respiratory tract infections and arthritis in chickens and turkeys, resulting in serious economic losses to the poultry industry. Enolase reportedly plays important roles in several bacterial pathogens, but its role in M. synoviae has not been established.

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Aim: To clone the canine IL-18 cDNA and to explore the immunological effectiveness of canine IL-18 as an adjuvant of genetic vaccine.

Methods: Canine leukocytes were separated from peripheral blood stimulated with ConA for 5-12 h. The full length cDNA of canine IL-18 was amplified by RT-PCR using leukocyte mRNA as a template.

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