ACTA AGRICULTURAE BOREALI-SINICA ›› 2010, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (5): 28-32. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.2010.05.006

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Cloning and T Cell Epitopes Prediction of Structural Protein Gene of a Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Strain AF/72

LIU Xinsheng, WANG Yonglu   

  1. Key Laboratory of Animal Virology of Agriculture, State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou 730046, China
  • Received:2010-08-07 Published:2010-10-28

Abstract: Virus strain AF/72 RNAs were used as templates for RT-PCR. The amplified cDNA products were cloned into pGEM-T easy vectors and transformed into JM109. The recombinant plasmids were identified by electrophoresis,PCR,and EcoR I cleavage. Application of biological software to H-2Dv,H-2Kv,H-2Lv,A20 restricted T cell epitope and the difference of restrictive T-cell epitope were compared. The results showed that the VP1 region of FMDV AF /72 strain was 639 bp in length and codes for a polypeptide of 213 amino acids. Although different restrictive T cell epitope was not identical,but the predicted T cell epitope was similar to compared with identified T cells and might is the universal T-cell. This study prediction of T cell epitope of structural protein of FMDV AF /72 strain through bioinformatics. It would be helpful for identification of T cell epitopes for structural protein of FMDV AF /72 strain using experimental methods and provides an effective method for the virus T cell epitope research simultaneously,for the virus epitope based accines design provides effective theoretical basis.

Key words: FMDV, T cell epitope, VP1 protein

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LIU Xinsheng, WANG Yonglu. Cloning and T Cell Epitopes Prediction of Structural Protein Gene of a Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Strain AF/72[J]. ACTA AGRICULTURAE BOREALI-SINICA, 2010, 25(5): 28-32. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.2010.05.006.

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