@ARTICLE{Kok_Song_Lai_Heterologous_2012, author={Kok Song Lai and Khatijah Yusoff and Maziah Mahmood}, volume={vol. 54}, number={No 1}, journal={Acta Biologica Cracoviensia s. Botanica}, howpublished={online}, year={2012}, publisher={Biological Commission of the Polish Academy of Sciences – Cracow Branch}, abstract={We explored the use of the medicinally important plant Centella asiatica for expression of hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) protein of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) strain AF2240. HN protein is the principal target for subunit vaccine development against NDV. The full-length HN gene was cloned into a plant expression construct driven by the CaMV 35S promoter and C-terminal fusion of green fluorescence protein (GFP) as reporter system. The recombinant expression construct was transformed via particle bombardment into C. asiatica callus. Transformants were screened using GFP and selected on MS medium supplemented with 15 mg/l hygromycin. The ~1.8 kb HN mRNA transcript was detected on the putative transformants using RT-PCR. The presence of HN protein expression was further confirmed through dot blot analysis using anti-NDV chicken serum. Here we report, for the first time, the use of a novel medicinal plant as a new platform for HN protein expression.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Heterologous Expression of Hemagglutinin-Neuraminidase Protein from Newcastle Disease Virus Strain AF2240 in Centella Asiatica}, URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/81762/PDF/15_lai.pdf}, doi={10.2478/v10182-012-0007-x}, keywords={Antigen expression, edible vaccine, hemagglutinin-neuraminidase, medicinal plants, Newcastle disease virus}, }