id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-354950-kmpbdvof Demurtas, Olivia C. Antigen Production in Plant to Tackle Infectious Diseases Flare Up: The Case of SARS 2016-02-05 .txt text/plain 8651 406 51 Here we demonstrate the transient expression in Nicotiana benthamiana of two important antigenic determinants of the SARS-CoV, the nucleocapsid protein (N) and the membrane protein (M) using a virus-derived vector or agro-infiltration, respectively. Here we demonstrate the transient expression in Nicotiana benthamiana of two important antigenic determinants of the SARS-CoV, the nucleocapsid protein (N) and the membrane protein (M) using a virus-derived vector or agro-infiltration, respectively. In addition, the WHO guidelines for SARS diagnosis, developed during the outbreak in 2003, suggested the use of N-based ELISA for specific IgG detection as confirmatory test of SARS-CoV infection (World Health Organization [WHO] , 2003 SARS: Laboratory diagnostic tests) due to the ability of the host to mount an early antibody response against the N protein (Che et al., 2004) . As the plant-derived recombinant M protein, the M RLV was also specifically recognized by the mouse anti-M pAb ( Figure 6C ) that had previously validated by Immunofluorescence Antibody Assay (IFA) in SARS CoV infected Vero cells (Carattoli et al., 2005) . ./cache/cord-354950-kmpbdvof.txt ./txt/cord-354950-kmpbdvof.txt