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ARS Home Midwest Area Ames, Iowa National Animal Disease Center Food Safety and Enteric Pathogens Research Research





- Loving, Crystal
- Food Safety, (Animal and Plant Products) (108)

Research Project: **Location:
                            Food Safety and Enteric Pathogens Research** Project Number: 5030-32000-225-007-R
                        
                        Project Type: Reimbursable Cooperative Agreement Start Date: Jul 15, 2019
                        
                        End Date: Jul 14, 2023 **Objective:**
                        
                        1.	Develop and characterize panels of monoclonal antibodies (mAb) specific for swine immune proteins, e.g., cytokines.
2.	Generate swine leukocyte antigenclass I tetramers for several common US pig breeds
3.	Express specific transcription factors regulating critical immune interactions and develop/identify mAbs to them
4.	Generate/identify mAbs specific for porcine cluster differentiation (CD) antigens
5.	Identify commercial partners for downstream use of developed reagents. **Approach:**
                        
                        ARS will focus on Objectives 3 and 4.
Objective 3 and 4 targets will include characterizing mAbs produced by commercial partners. This may also include analyses of mAbs produced during a previous collaboration. Western blots and flow cytometry will be used to confirm specificity of mAbs, define epitopes recognized and cross species reactivities. Intracellular staining will be tested on pig cell subsets as appropriate.


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