Department of Immunology and Cell Biology Collaboration Dr. R.Ulrich, Friedrich-Loeffler Institute, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany Dr. V.Gorboulev, Wurzburg University, Wurzburg, Germany Dr. W.Michalski, Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Australia Dr. E.Shikova-Lekova, Institute of Experimental Morphology, Pathology and Anthropology with Muzeum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IEMPAM-BAS), Sofia, Bulgaria; Prof. L.Poellinger, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden Dr. J.Makino, Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan Prof. E. Pettersen, Oslo University, Oslo, Norway Prof. P.Ebbesen, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark Prof.A.C. Cato, Karlsruhe University, Karlsruhe, Germany Dr. E. Davidavičienė, Dr. E. Pimkina, Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis Hospital, affiliate of public institution Vilnius University Hospital Santariskiu Klinikos Dr.D. M. Cirillo, Dr. P. Miotto, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy Prof. A. Gori, Dr. G. Lapandula, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy Dr. J. L. de Beer, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands. Funding Research Contracts EC Framework 7th Programme European Social Fund Under THE Global grant Measure Research Council of Lithuania Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology UAB Fermentas/Thermo Fisher Scientific, Lithuania Abcam Ltd, Cambridge, UK Santa Cruz Biotechnology, USA Patents Zvirbliene A., Gedvilaite A, Ulrich R., Sasnauskas K. Process for the production of monoclonal antibodies. US 7919314 B2. 2011/04/05 54
Publications 2011-2012 1. Kucinskaite-Kodze I., Petraityte-Burneikiene R., Zvirbliene A., Hjelle B., Medina R.A., Gedvilaite A., Razanskiene A., Schmidt-Chanasit J., Mertens M., Padula P., Sasnauskas K., Ulrich R.G. Characterization of monoclonal antibodies against hantavirus nucleocapsid protein and their use for immunohistochemistry on rodent and human samples. Arch. Virol. 2011, 156(3):443-56. 2. Chase G.P., Rameix-Welti M.A., Zvirbliene A., Zvirblis G., Götz V., Wolff T., Naffakh N., Schwemmle M. Influenza Virus Ribonucleoprotein Complexes Gain Preferential Access to Cellular Export Machinery through Chromatin Targeting. PLoS Pathog. 2011, 7(9):e10002187. 3. Mertens M., Kindler E., Emmerich P., Esser J. Wagner- Wiening C. Wölfel R., Petraityte-Burneikiene R., Schmidt- Chanasit J., Zvirbliene A., Groschup M.H., Dobler G., Pfeffer M, Heckel G., Ulrich R.G., Essbauer S.S. Phylogenetic analysis of Puumala virus subtype Bavaria, characterization and diagnostic use of its recombinant nucleocapsid protein. Virus Genes 2011, 43(2):177-91. 4. Pleckaityte M., Mistiniene E., Lasickiene R., Zvirblis G., Zvirbliene A. Generation of recombinant single-chain antibodies neutralizing the cytolytic activity of vaginolysin, the main virulence factor of Gardnerella vaginalis. BMC Biotechnol. 2011, 11(1):100. 5. Pleckaityte M., Zvirbliene A., Sezaite I., Gedvilaite A. Production in yeast of pseudotype virus-like particles harboring functionally active antibody fragments neutralizing the cytolytic activity of vaginolysin. Microb. Cell. Fact. 2011, 10:109. 6. Petraitytė-Burneikienė R., Nalivaiko K., Lasickienė R., Firantienė R., Emužytė R., Sasnauskas K., Zvirblienė A. Generation of recombinant metapneumovirus nucleocapsid protein as nucleocapsid-like particles and development of virus-specific monoclonal antibodies. Virus Res. 2011, 161(2):131-9. 7. Jakubauskas A., Valceckiene V., Andrekute K., Seinin D., Kanopka A., Griskevicius L. Discovery of two novel EWSR1/ ATF1 transcripts in four chimerical transcripts-expressing clear cell sarcoma and their quantitative evaluation. Exp. Mol. Pathol. 2011, 90(2):194-200. 8. Rocas M., Jakubauskiene E., Kanopka A. Polymorphism of the aryl-hydrocarbon receptor gene in intron 10 of human cancers. Braz. J. Med. Biol. Res. 2011, 44(11):1112-7. 9. Pleckaityte M., Janulaitiene M., Lasickiene R., Zvirbliene A. Genetic and biochemical diversity of Gardnerella vaginalis strains isolated from women with bacterial vaginosis. FEMS Immunol. Med. Microbiol. 2012, 65(1):69-77. 10. Dubakiene R., Rudzeviciene O., Butiene I., Sezaite I., Petronyte M., Vaicekauskaite D., Zvirbliene A. Studies on early allergic sensitization in the Lithuanian birth cohort. The Scientific World Journal 2012:909524. 11. Pleckaityte M., Zilnyte M., Zvirbliene A. Insights into the CRISPR/Cas system of Gardnerella vaginalis. BMC Microbiol. 2012, 12(1):301. 12. Jakubauskiene E., Janaviciute V., Peciuliene I., Söderkvist P., Kanopka A. G/A polymorphism in intronic sequence affects the processing of MAO-B gene in patients with Parkinson disease. FEBS Lett. 2012, 586(20):3698-704. 13. de Beer J.L., Kremer K., Ködmön C., Supply P., van Soolingen D.; Global Network for the Molecular Surveillance of Tuberculosis 2009. Collaborators: Augustynowicz-Kopec E., Bidovec-Stojkovic U., Boeree M., Brown T.,Cirillo D.M., Cruz L., David S., de Saúde N., Jorge R., Diaz R., Dou H.Y., Evans J.T., Fauville-Dufaux M., Fitzgibbon M.M., García de Viedma D., Marañón G., Globan M., Groenheit R., Haanperä-Heikkinen M., Indra A., Kam K.M., Kramer R., Mei S., Niemann S. Obrovac M., Rasmussen E.M., Refrégier G., Robledo J.A., Samper S., Sharma M.K., Sougakoff W., Stakenas P., Stavrum R., Suffys P.N., Trenkler J., Wada T., Warren R.M. First worldwide proficiency study on variable-number tandem-repeat typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains. J. Clin. Microbiol. 2012, 50(3):662-9. Vilnius University Institute of Biotechnology <strong>Biennial</strong> report for 2011–2012 55