Proof of concept of fiber dispersed Raman spectroscopy using superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors.

Due to its high molecular specificity, Raman spectroscopy is a well-established analytical tool. Usually the inelastically scattered Raman light is spectrally dispersed by a spectrometer. Here, we present an alternative method, using an optical fiber as dispersive element.

Superconducting single-photon counting system for optical experiments requiring time-resolution in the picosecond range.

We have developed a cryogenic measurement system for single-photon counting, which can be used in optical experiments requiring high time resolution in the picosecond range. The system utilizes niobium nitride superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors which are integrated in a time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC) setup. In this work, we describe details of the mechanical design, the electrical setup, and the cryogenic optical components.

Human spontaneous laryngeal carcinoma HEp-2 cells are chronically infected with SRV-1 virus, a variant of simian type D retrovirus.

A type D retrovirus chronically persisting in HEp-2 cells from human laryngeal carcinoma was analyzed by PCR and sequenced. This virus is most similar to SRV-1 and probably represents one of its subtypes.

[Detection of markers of the human T-cell leukemia virus in patients with T-cell lymphoma and Kaposi's sarcoma].

Nine patients with Kaposi's sarcoma and five suffering from T-cell lymphoma have been examined. Antibodies to HTLV-1 were not found in these patients. The primary cellular cultures were isolated from blood and lymph nodes of the patients.

[The regional use of antibiotics in treating craniocerebral trauma and suppurative complications].

The authors used the intracarotid and subarachnoid methods of infusion of antibiotics for treatment of purulent meningitis, brain abscesses. The methods are considered to be fairly effective.

[Antinuclear, anticentromere and anti-ScL-70 antibodies in rheumatic diseases].

Methods are described that are used for the titration of antinuclear, anticentromere, and anti-Scl-70 antibodies in systemic scleroderma, systemic lupus erythematosus, and rheumatoid arthritis: indirect immunofluorescence with various antigenic substrates (sections of fresh-frozen rat liver and Hep-2 cell culture), counter-current immunoelectrophoresis, isolation of Scl-70 antigen. Use of Hep-2 cells as a substrate for indirect immunofluorescence was found clinically and diagnostically more effective since it permitted the detection of anticentromere antibodies and anti-Scl-70. Nucleolar, mottled, homogeneous, marginal immunofluorescence types were observed when rat liver sections and Hep-2 cells were used for substrates.

[Antibodies to the structural and nonstructural gag-coded proteins of type-D retroviruses in patients with lymphadenopathy].

Screening of antibodies to structural and nonstructural gag gene-coded proteins in humans with lymphadenopathy and AIDS was performed by means of radioimmunoprecipitation (RIP) and western blotting. Pr78gag precursor of gag-coded proteins of type-D retrovirus from Hep-2 cells served as an antigen in RIP tests. Total number of sera (of humans with lymphoadenopathy) under RIP analysis was 18 and one sera of AIDS patient.

[Antibodies against structural proteins of carlaviruses in human and other mammals].

The study of four isolates of chrysanthemum B-virus (CVB) has shown the virus to have a single 40 Kd structural protein able to dissociate under the definite conditions forming the truncated (for 3 and 6 Kd) polypeptides having preserved their whole antigenic determinants. The human plasma is shown to contain antibodies reacting with the structural protein B-BX and, approximately 10 times weaker with the structural protein of another carlavirus, potato M-virus. Interaction of antibodies with CVB is found to take place due to F(ab)2 fragments.

[Antibodies to the structural proteins of the chrysanthemum B-virus in normal human plasma].

Electrophoretic analysis of the protein composition of chrysanthemum B virus (ChrBV), a member of the carlavirus family, performed in 7.5-15% gradient polyacrylamide gel with 0.1% SDS revealed the presence in the preparation of two proteins with molecular weights of 34,000 and 37,000.

[Advantages and disadvantages of silver staining of proteins in polyacrylamide gel].

Sensitivity of protein staining with Serva blue G-250 (Coomassie brilliant blue G-250 analogue) in polyacrylamide gel was determined. It has been shown that protein staining with 0.1% Serva blue G-250 results in the recovery of 80 to 35 ng of single protein, that is almost 10 times higher than reported previously for Coomassie brill.

[Nonstructural glycosylated polyproteins coded for by the gag gene of retrovirus type D expressed on the plasma membrane].

Studies of virus-specific proteins of type D retroviruses by radioimmunoprecipitation (RIP) using various radioactive precursors demonstrated in HEp-2 cells producing these retroviruses the presence of two glycosylated gag-coded polyproteins with molecular weights of 78 K and 90 K. The same polyproteins were found by lactoperoxidase iodination and RIP on the plasma membrane of the cells. Comparative studies of these glycoproteins by the limited proteolysis method showed the sites for trypsin action in them to be located in similar places of protein bases which indicated their structural relationship.

[High-resolution electrophoresis in a new polyacrylamide-gel block].

A new gel block for electrophoretic separation is offered. When viewed frontally, the block has a form of a trapezium. During electrophoresis a gradient of voltage is formed in such a block, as a result of which the mobility of macromolecules to be separated markedly decreases.

[Processing of proteins coded by the gag gene of retrovirus type D from HEp-2 cells].

The early products of translation of the gag gene of retrovirus type D from HEP-2 cells were studied. The radioimmunoprecipitation test in the pulse-chase modification showed the proteins, products of the gag gene translation of this retrovirus, to be formed from polyprotein with a molecular weight of 78000. The use of serine proteinases inhibitors revealed 2 additional polyproteins with molecular weights of 37000 and 33000.

[Further study of spontaneous virus production using transplantable HEp-2 cells as a model].

Two maxima of optic density were observed at zones of gravity 1.27 g/ml and 1.15-1.

[Detection of oncornavirus type D in continuous breast cancer cells].

An oncornavirus immunologically similar to oncornaviruses type D previously isolated from human continuous cells was detected in continuous cells of mammary cancer (SH3). The culture produces structures having densities of 1.18--1.

[Differentiation of type D virus from continuous human cells (Il'in-Bykovskiĭ virus) and Mason-Pfizer monkey virus by the antigens of the viral envelopes].

For differentiation of Ilvin-Bykovsky virus (IBV) and monkey Meson-Pfeizer virus (M-PMV) the method of virus neutralization with antibodies against the envelope virus antigen was used. The viruses were cultivated in similar human embryo cells. The results of the virus neutralization were determined by presence or absence of the gs-antigen in the infected cells.

[Detection of the GS-antigen of D-type virus in the cells of human breast fibroadenoma].

Gs-antigen(s) of the D-type virus isolated from the continuous cells of human carcinoma was detected by the immunodiffusion with an indirect radioimmunoautographic assay in 5 of 7 human breast fibroadenoma. This virus contained gs-antigen common with the MPMV. These data demonstrated the genom of the D-type virus (or of a similar virus) to be integrated with the human fibroadenoma cells genom.

[Human D(B) type virus: comparison of D(B) type virus antigens with antigens of oncornaviruses of different origins].

It was found by the immunodiffusion test that the D(B) type virus isolated from human cell lines and Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (M--PMV) contained common group-specific antigen(s). No cross-reaction was demonstrated between this D(B) type virus and C type oncornaviruses of various origins.