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HIV, HCV and Other Virus
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Drug Discovery in Anti- Bacteria |
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HIV replication & cytotoxicity assays for anti-HIV compound screening |
Bacterial strain collection |
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• Viruses: NL4-3, IIIB, clinical isolates |
• QC strains from ATCC, gram positive & gram negative |
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• Lymphoid cell lines: MT2, MT4, SupT1, etc. |
• Bacterial strains from local hospitals, over 400 clinical isolates |
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• Primary cells: PBMC, monocyte-macrophage cells |
• Bacterial strains from strains from North America |
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Drug combination study
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Bacterial strain validation
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Drug resistant HIV strain generation & profiling |
• Strain validation by 16S RNA amplification & sequencing |
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Compound profiling against various HIV strains
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• Strain validation by biochemical test |
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Other assays |
• Strain validation by Vitek2 |
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• Integrase assays; LEDGF HTRF assay; 3’ processing assay; Strand transfer |
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- Strain identification with GN-21341 & GP-21342 cards |
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assay; reverse transcriptase assay; capsid assay; fusion assay; CCR5 |
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- Antibiotics susceptibility test with AST-GN & AST-GP cards |
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specific compound screening |
• Drug resistant gene identification with multi-plex PCR & sequencing |
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HCV replicon transient assay & stable Huh7 cell lines |
Assay development
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• Compound screening to identify hits for HCV subtype 1a,1b, 2a |
• Over 20 assays for anti-bacterial R&D, available for immediate use
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• Combination study to evaluate synergism ,antagonism of compounds |
• CLSI guidance for MIC/MBC testing |
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• Evaluation & profiling of RNAi effect against HCV |
• NIH guidance for HTS and assay QC (plate uniformity, MSR, Z’, rank |
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JFH-1 infection assay: JFH-1(qPCR method) or JFH-1 reporter virus assay |
potency of reference compounds) |
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Drug resistant mutation identification & profiling |
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• Identify resistant mutations & clone into the replicon |
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• Profile compound against resistant replicons |
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Clinical sample profiling: NS3,NS5A or NS5B chimeric replicon |
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Homogeneous SPA assay (384-well format) for anti-HCV polymerase |
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NS5b compound screening |
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Other assays : NS3 protease assay, etc. |
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