Range of viral antigens to support virologist

With the emergence of the viral diseases, Biotechno Labs in partnership with its principal Prospec provides a wide range of viral antigens to support virologist, immunologists and other pharmaceutical companies in their research.

Viruses are infectious pathogens that cause serious diseases & major threats for global public health, such as influenza, hepatitis, & AIDS. It is a sub-micrometer particle that has DNA or RNA packed in a shell called capsid. Viral antigens protrude from the capsid and often fulfill important function in docking to the host cell, fusion, and injection of viral DNA/RNA.

 
A viral antigen is an antigen with multiple antigenicity which are proteins, strain-specific and encoded by viral genome. A viral protein is an antigen specified by the viral genome that can be detected by a specific immunological response. Recombinant viral antigens contain part of viral sequence meaning that the recombinant antigen contains a region which can be recognized by different antibodies produced by different individuals. This reduces the risk of false negatives which can occur with synthetic peptides, which contain only a small portion of the entire protein.