Rapid, animal protein free, chromatographic processes and systems for obtaining high potency, high yield botulinum neurotoxin for research, therapeutic and cosmetic use.

The disclosure provides modified biotin-binding proteins which can be expressed in soluble form in high yield in bacteria. Also provided are fusion proteins comprising the modified biotin-binding protein and an antigen. The disclosure further provides non-hemolytic variants of alpha-hemolysin from S. aureus and fusion protein comprising non-hemolytic variant of alpha-hemolysin and a biotin-binding domains. Immunogenic compositions comprising the proteins are also disclosed and use of such immunogenic compositions for inducing an immune response or for vaccinating a subject are also disclosed.

Sustained release formulations of opioid antagonists containing both free and encapsulated opioid antagonist are described herein.

Sustained release formulations of opioid antagonists containing both free and encapsulated opioid antagonist are described herein.

A preparation method of a novel natural bioactive peptide Tubulysin U includes: dissolving a compound 2 in trifluoroacetic acid, heating under reflux to prepare an intermediate, reacting with a compound 3 and N,N-diisopropylethylamine to obtain a product, reacting the product with 2, 6-dimethylpyridine and tert-butyldimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate, adding sodium hydroxide after the reaction to prepare an intermediate acid, reacting the intermediate acid with a compound 6, HATU and N,N-diisopropylethylamine to obtain a product, adding triphenylphosphine to prepare an intermediate amine, adding a compound 8 and HATU to react, adding ammonium fluoride to prepare a first intermediate, adding sodium hydroxide to the first intermediate to prepare a second intermediate, adding acetic anhydride to the second intermediate to prepare a third intermediate, adding trifluoroacetic acid to the third intermediate to prepare a fourth intermediate, and adding formaldehyde and sodium cyanoborohydride to the fourth intermediate to react, thereby obtaining a target product.

A seal enhancer for improving the patch clamp seal in a patch clamp method or apparatus is provided. The internal solution comprises particular anions and the external solution comprises one or more metal ions at low concentration.

Embodiments disclosed include systems, devices, and methods for analysis of samples containing particles used for gene delivery to determine a quality of the sample and/or an indication that the gene delivery particles are in a full, partial, and/or empty state. The present disclosure also relates to determining a protein and/or NA content in samples with known proportions of gene delivery particles in a full, partial, and/or empty state and based on the determination, establish a relationship between NA content and proportions of gene delivery particles in a full state. The present disclosure also relates to using such an established relationship to predict a proportion of the gene delivery particles in a full, partial, and/or empty state in test samples having the gene delivery particles in an unknown state.

The present disclosure is directed to methods reagents and kits for solid phase extraction, derivatization with crown ether containing derivatizing agents, and mass spectrometry of the derivatized analytes.

The present disclosure is directed to methods reagents and kits for solid phase extraction, derivatization with crown ether containing derivatizing agents, and mass spectrometry of the derivatized analytes.

Provided is a novel method whereby an amide compound can be produced by highly stereoselectively and efficiently performing amidation between a plurality of amino acids and/or peptides. A compound of general formula (3) is synthesized by forming an amide bond between the carboxyl group on the right side of general formula (1) in a compound represented thereby and the amino group on the left side of general formula (2) in a compound represented thereby, in the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst and a silylating agent [in formulae (1), (2) and (3), each symbol has the same meaning as defined in claims]. ##STR00001##