Potential Role of Recombinant Capsid Protein of Dengue Virus Serotype 2 in the Development of an In-House Elisa Based Detection of Infection
Rakhtasha Munir1, Shazia Rafique2*, Iram Amin1,2, Sameen Ahmed2, Ayesha Vajeeha2, Amjad Ali3, Muhammad Shahid2, Muhammad Umer Khan4 and Muhammad Idrees2
1Centre of Applied Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
2Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
3Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan.
4Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan.
Fig. 1.
PCR Amplification of dengue C Gene fragment, Lane 2-5: dengue DNA positive of 342bp and Lane 6 showing negative control (containing all PCR reagents but without Template DNA), Lanes 1 and 7: DNA marker of 100bp.
Fig. 2.
Restriction digestion analysis of clone in expression vector: Lane 1: DNA marker of size 1Kb, Lane 2: negative control (empty vector), Lanes 3 to 7: First band digested of peT28a vector of size 5359bp and second band of dengue C gene fragment size 342bp.
Fig. 3.
SDS-PAGE of protein showing expression of 24KDa protein fragment. Lane 1: Induced protein sample, Lane 2: uninduced protein sample, Lane 3: Prestained Protein marker.
Fig. 4.
Western Blot representing 24KDa protein fragment of C protein. Lane 1: Prestained Protein marker, Lane 2: uninduced protein sample, Lanes 3-4: Induced protein samples.
Fig. 5.
Dot blot representing C protein of dengue. Lane 1: Induced protein sample, Lane 2: uninduced protein sample.