Acknowledgments This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 30572199, No 30230350, No 30371651) and the Key Subject of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Guangdong Province. We thank Prof 03-xuan XIE for her kind help in capturing images; Dr Xi-chao WANG for performing the flow cytometry analysis; Chun-yong LIU, Xiao-ying WANG, He GUO, 03 GAO, and Yu-ting LI for their excellent technical assistance; and Zhi YANG and Man-lin YAO for kindly helping with preparation of the manuscript.
Aim: To investigate the immunosuppressive effect of gossypol in mice both in vitro and in vivo. Methods: The in vitro effect of gossypol on the proliferation of lymphocytes isolated from lymph nodes of BALB/c mice w...
supported by Natural Science Fund of Guangdong Province (No.8451063201000340);the Talented Man Initiation Fund of Jinan University (No.51208004, No.51208017) to Dr. DY Ouyang ;grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.30572199, No.30230350 and No.30371651) to Prof. XH He;the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Key Discipline of Guangdong Province.
Chinese-descent rhesus macaques have become more prevalent for HIV infection and vaccine investigation than Indian-origin macaques. Most of the currently available data and reagents such as major histocompatibility co...
This work was supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30572199, No. 30230350 and No. 30371651) to Prof. XH He; the Talented Man Initiation Fund of Jinan University (No. 51208004 and No. 51208017) and Natural Science Fund of Guangdong Province (No. 8451063201000340) to Dr. DY Ouyang; the Scientific and Technological Projects of Yunnan (2004NG12 and 2006PT08), the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (2006CB504208), the Knowledge Innovation Program of CAS (KSCX1-YW-R-15) to Dr. YT Zheng, and "Western Light" Projects to Dr. GH Zhang; as well as by the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Key Discipline of Guangdong Province; Acknowledgements We thank Dr. Natasja de Groot, Dr. Nel Otting and IMGT Nonhuman Primate Nomenclature Committee for naming the Mamu-A and Mamu-B sequences.
Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I information is vital for understanding variance of immune responses in HIV vaccination and biomedical models. In this study, 9 Mamu-A and 13 Mamu-B alleles were identif...
supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.30672474,No.30572199,No.30230350,and No.30371651);grants from Institute of Dermatology,Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences&Peking Union Medical College.
The phenotype and function of antigen-specific CD8 T cells are closely associated with the efficacy of a therapeutic vaccination. Here we showed that multiple immunizations with LCMV gp33-41 peptide (KAV) in Freund...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.30230350,No.30572199 and No.30371651).
MHC/peptide tetramer technology has been widely used to study antigen-specific T cells, especially for identifying virus-specific CD8^+ T cells in humans. The tetramer molecule is composed of HLA heavy chain, β2-mic...