The available database comprises research projects in Fisheries, Aquaculture, Seafood Processing and Marine Biotechnology active in the time period 2003-2022.
BlueBio is an ERA-NET COFUND created to directly identify new and improve existing ways of bringing bio-based products and services to the market and find new ways of creating value from in the blue bioeconomy.

More information on the BlueBio project and participating funding organizations is available on the BlueBio website: www.bluebioeconomy.eu

Last Update: 2024/06/19

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Aquaculture
Marine Biotechnology
Antimicrobial peptides and proteins mediating viral defense in Atlantic salmon
National Programme
National
Yoichiro Kitani
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UIN - Nord University (Norway)
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2014
2016
€ 227,270
https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/233884?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=300&ProgAkt.3=HAVBRUK2-Stort+program+for+havbruksforskning
Atlantic salmon farming industry in Norway registered mortality of 27 million in 2012 and viral diseases such as infectious salmon anaemia, pancreas disease, heart and skeletal muscle inflammation, cardiomyopathy syndrome and infectious pancreatic necrosis continue to plague the industry. To combat diseases, new and sustainable solutions should be discovered. A possible choice could be to exploit the molecules of the innate immune system, including antimicrobial peptides and proteins (AMPs). Therefore, the present project aims to understand the antiviral potential of selected AMPs of Atlantic salmon. Molecular and biochemical approaches will be employed to clarify the functions and structure of the chosen AMPs - defensin, cathelicidin and L-amino acid oxidase. Their action in naturally and experimentally infected Atlantic salmon would be investigated. The antiviral properties of the recombinant AMPs against a range of viruses will be assessed in vitro. The knowledge on the antiviral capabilities of the AMPs would be valuable in the future to develop them as disease control agents.
Engineering; Genetic; Fish; Vaccines development; Salmon; Disease;
Not associated to marine areas
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