As an indispensable component of recombinant fusion proteins, linkers have shown
increasing importance in the construction of stable, bioactive fusion proteins. This review …

The history of DNA vaccine began as early as the 1960s with the discovery that naked DNA
can transfect mammalian cells in vivo. In 1992, the evidence that such transfection could …

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. As a
result of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the global TB mortality rate in …

Previous studies in our laboratory have shown that when the N-terminus of interferon-α2b
(IFN-α2b) was directly fused of to the C-terminus of human serum albumin (HSA), the …

Cytokines are a protein family comprising interleukins, lymphokines, chemokines,
monokines and interferons. They are significant constituents of the immune system, and they …

The activity of several potent adjuvants, including incomplete Freund's adjuvant, CpG
oligodeoxynucleotides, and alum, has been shown to be due at least in part to the induction …

The conventional, currently available vaccines, though quite successful, suffer from a few
shortcomings which hamper future vaccine development. We present herewith some of the …

Diatoms are responsible for 20% of global carbon dioxide fixation and have significant
potential in various biotechnological and industrial applications. Recently, the pennate …

Molecular farming in plants is an emerging platform for the production of pharmaceutical
proteins, and host species such as tobacco are now becoming competitive with …

Low enzymatic hydrolysis efficiency prevents the economic biotechnological conversion of
lignocellulose to valuable products. To improve the lignocellulose degradation, artificial …