It is provided novel anti-galactofuranose antibodies and their use for diagnosis of and/or treating aspergillosis, and for the design of chimeric antigen receptor T-cells, wherein single chain variable fragment of the antibodies, such as a heavy chain variable region or a light chain variable region, is fused via a spacer and a transmembrane domain to a signaling endodomain to generate an expression cassette that will be integrated into a T cell.

Provided herein is a method of quantitating a fungus in a plant, plant product or agricultural product. Total nucleic acids are isolated from a sample of the plant or plant product, and an asymmetric PCR amplification reaction is performed using fluorescent labeled primer pairs to obtain fluorescent labeled fungal amplicons. These amplicons are hybridized to fungus specific nucleic acid probes that are attached on a microarray support. The microarray is imaged to detect fluorescent signals from the fluorescent labeled fungal amplicons. The fluorescent signal intensity is correlated to the quantity of fungus.

The invention relates to antibodies to Aspergillus species and to methods of producing those antibodies. The invention also relates to the use of such antibodies in identifying the presence of the Aspergillus species and to methods of treating an infection with the Aspergillus species.

A dispersive solid-phase extraction material, a preparation method therefor and an application thereof. The method comprises: weighing humic acid and washing it using water under ultrasonic bath, centrifuging to obtain a solid precipitate; resuspending the solid precipitate in acetone, heating and evaporating until the acetone has evaporated completely to then obtain a residue; taking and placing the residue in a Soxhlet extractor, and adding a cleaning solution; cleaning by heating and refluxing until the refluxed liquid is clear and colorless, and then heating is stopped; taking out the cleaned material; drying the material at 100° C. for 1.5-2.5 h, cooling for 0.5-1 h, and sieving through a 120 mesh sieve; collecting the material under the sieve to obtain the dispersive solid-phase extraction material. The dispersive solid-phase extraction material can simultaneously extract and purify aflatoxins in edible oils for their detection.

A dispersive solid-phase extraction material, a preparation method therefor and an application thereof. The method comprises: weighing humic acid and washing it using water under ultrasonic bath, centrifuging to obtain a solid precipitate; resuspending the solid precipitate in acetone, heating and evaporating until the acetone has evaporated completely to then obtain a residue; taking and placing the residue in a Soxhlet extractor, and adding a cleaning solution; cleaning by heating and refluxing until the refluxed liquid is clear and colorless, and then heating is stopped; taking out the cleaned material; drying the material at 100° C. for 1.5-2.5 h, cooling for 0.5-1 h, and sieving through a 120 mesh sieve; collecting the material under the sieve to obtain the dispersive solid-phase extraction material. The dispersive solid-phase extraction material can simultaneously extract and purify aflatoxins in edible oils for their detection

Provided herein is a large immuno-sorbent surface area assay (ALISSA) for the rapid and sensitive detection of botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) and anthrax toxin. This assay is designed to capture a low number of toxin molecules and to measure their intrinsic protease activity via conversion of a fluorogenic or luminescent substrate. Also provided herein are novel peptides that can be specifically cleaved by BoNT and novel peptides that are resistant to cleavage by BoNT. The combination of these cleavable and control peptides can be used for implementation of an exemplary ALISSA used to specifically detect BoNT enzymatic activity. Furthermore, the ALISSA as described herein may also be used in a column based format for use in a high-throughput system for testing large quantities of samples.

Methods for diagnosing, treating, and monitoring the treatment of invasive aspergillosis (IA) are described. The methods can include detecting the presence of one or more volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the breath of subjects suspected of having IA.

The invention is directed to methods for identifying targets for antimicrobial and antiproliferative compounds as well as methods for identifying novel compounds for treating cancer and microbial infections.

The invention belongs to the field of chemical analysis and detection, and specifically relates to a pretreatment method for LC-MS detecting metabolomics of Aspergillus flavus. The method includes: culturing a strain of Aspergillus flavus; quenching the Aspergillus flavus; disrupting the cell membrane of Aspergillus flavus, and extracting a metabolome. The invention adopts a cold glycerol buffer solution combined with a rapid filtration method for quenching, and a MeOH/DCM/ACN/EA/HCOOH mixture is used as an metabolome extract, thereby achieving the object of efficiently extracting different polar compounds, and metabolome compound coverage is high; pretreatment of the cell metabolomics of Aspergillus flavus by the method of the invention can ensure the repeatability and stability of the metabolomics analysis method and reduce the false positive of the test results.

It is provided novel anti-galactofuranose antibodies and their use for diagnosis of and/or treating aspergillosis, and for the design of chimeric antigen receptor T-cells, wherein single chain variable fragment of the antibodies, such as a heavy chain variable region or a light chain variable region, is fused via a spacer and a transmembrane domain to a signaling endodomain to generate an expression cassette that will be integrated into a T cell.