Date Received: 26-03-2015 / Date Accepted: 09-10-2015 / Date Published: 13-06-2025
Southern rice black-streaked dwarf virus-SRBSDV isa new virus species of the genus Fijivirusin the family Reovidae which caused serious rice losses in tens ofmillions of hectares throughout southern China and northernandcentral Vietnam during2009-2010period. To developsensitive and specific antibody for the diagnosis of SRBSDV based on ELISA method, a DNAfragment, namely P10.1, of the SRBSDV S10 segment, that encodes a highly-antigenic polipeptide, was cloned and expressed in E. coli.P10.1 consistingof525 nucleotides was cloned into vector pGEM®-T, then inserted into the expression region of pET28a and transfromed into E.colistrainRosetta to express recombinant polypeptide. Polypeptide fused with His-tag was expressedat 37°C,for16hwith 1.0 mM IPTGinducer. Using Ni-NTA chromatographic column recombinant polypeptide of about 35 kDa from cell extractswas purified. The purified polypeptide will be used as antigenfor inducing specific antibody against outer capsid protein of SRBSDV.