Prevention of viral infection by the induction of apoptosis and/

Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Treatment of micro-organisms or enzymes with electrical or... – Modification of viruses

Patent

Rate now

  [ 0.00 ] – not rated yet Voters 0   Comments 0

Details

435348, 935 70, C12N 1500, C12N 500

Patent

active

058437363

ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a new, effective and general methodology to prevent viral infection, which methodology is divided into two parts: 1) induction of the apoptosis (programmed cell death) of a host upon viral infection to block viral reproduction; and 2) the use of an apoptosis triggering gene, the persistency-associated gene 1 (pag1, now renamed as hem1 in light of the position thereof in the restriction map of the Hz-1 viral genome) to prevent the viral infection.

REFERENCES:
Clem et al (1993) J. Virol. 67, 3730-3738.
Clem et al (1994) J. Virol. 68, 6759-6762.
Rabizadeh et al (1993) J. Neurochem. 61, 2318-2321.
Bump et al (1995) Science 269, 1885-1888.
Yu et al (1995) Proced. Nat. Acad. Sci. 92, 699-703.
Leavitt et (1994) Human Gene Therapy 5, 1115-1120.
Leib, et al. "A Deletion Mutant of the Latency-Associated Transcript of Herpes Simplex Virus . . .", Journal of Virology, pp. 2893-2900, Jul. 1989.
Halstead "Dengue haemorrhagic fever-a public health problem and a field for research", Bulletin of the WHO, 59:1-21, 1980.
Halstead "Selective Primary Health Care: Strategies for Control of Disease in the Developing World", Rev. of Infect. Diseases, 6,2: 251-264, 1984.
Klein "Are Invertebrates Capable of Anticipatory Immune Responses?", Scand. J. Immunol., 29:499-505, 1989.
Tomei, et al. "Introduction", Apoptosis: The Molecular Basis of Cell Death, pp. 1-3, 1991.
Steller, et al. "A transposable P vector that confers electable G418 resistance to Drosophila larvae", The EMBO Journal, 4,1: 167-171, 1985.
Kerr, et al. "Definition and Incidence of Apoptosis: An Historical Perspective", Apoptosis: The Molecular Basis of Cell Death, pp. 5-29, 1991.
Granados, et al. "An Insect Cell Line Persistently Infected with a Baculovirus-Like Particle", Intervirology, 10: 309-317, 1978.
Ralston, et al. "Cell Culture Studies with the IMC-Hz-1 Nonoccluded Virus.sup.1 ", Virology, 115: 33-44, 1981.
Wood, et al. "Persistent and Productive Infections with the Hz-1 Baculovirus", Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 131: 119-133.
Burand, et al. "Persistent Baculovirus Infections", The Biology of Baculoviruses, 1: 159-175.
Burand, et al. "Defective Particles from a Persistent Baculovirus Infection in Trichoplusia ni Tissue Culture Cells", Jnl. of Gen. Virology, 64: 391-398 (1983).
Burand, et al. "Intracellular Protein Synthesis During Standard and Defective Hz-1 Virus Replication", Jnl. of Gen. Virology, 67: 167-173.
Huang, et al. "Characterization of the DNA of a Nonoccluded Baculovirus, Hz-1V", Journal of Virology, pp. 174-181, Jul., 1982.
Burand, et al. "Structural and Intracellular Proteins of the Nonoccluded Baculovirus Hz-1", Journal of Virology, pp. 137-142, Apr., 1983.
Whitaker-Dowling, et al. "Superinfection Exclusion by Vesicular Stomatitis Virus", Virology, 131: 137-143, 1983.
Chao, et al. "Physical Map of Hz-1 baculovirus genome from standard and defective interfering particles", Jnl. of Gen. Virology, 71: 1265-1270, 1990.
Chao, et al. "Differential Expression of Hz-1 Baculovirus Genes during Productive and Persistent Viral Infection", Jnl. of Gen. Virology, pp. 1442-1448, Mar., 1992.
Oldstone "Viral Persistence", Cell, 56: 517-520, 1989.
Spivack, et al. "Expression of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Latency-Associated Transcripts in the Trigeminal . . . ", Journal of Virology, pp. 1479-1485, May, 1988.
Stevens, et al. "RNA Complementary to a Herpesvirus .alpha. Gene mRNA is Prominent in Latently Infected Neurons", Science Reports, 2: 1056-1059, 1987.
Vaughn, et al. "The Establishment Of Two Cell Lines From The Insect Spodoptera Frugiperda (Lepodoptera: Noctuidae)", In Vitro, 13,4: 213-217, 1977.
Wood "Protease Degradation of Autographa californica Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus proteins", Virology, 103: 392-399, 1980.
Clem, et al. "Prevention of Apoptosis by a Baculovirus Gene During Infection of Insect Cells", Science Reports, 254: 1388-1390, 1991.
Chen "Flourescent Labeling of Mitochondria", Methods in Cell Biology, pp. 103-123, 1989.
Gregory, et al. "Activation of Epstein-Barr virus latent genes protects human B cells from death by apoptosis", Letters to Nature, 349: 612-617, 1991.
Wilson "Properties of the Virus Particle", Classification and Nomenclature of Viruses, pp. 117-123.
Martz, et al. "CTL: virus control cells first and cytolytic cells second?", Immunology Today, 10,3: 79-86, 1989.
Henikoff "Unidirectional digestion with exonuclease III creates targeted breakpoints for DNA sequencing", Gene, 28: 351-359, 1984.
Lawler, et al. "The Structure of Human Thrombospondin, an Adhesive Glycoprotein with . . . ", Jnl. of Cell Biology, 103: 1635-1648, 1986.
Sanger, et al. "DNA sequencing with chain-terminating inhibitors", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 74,12: 5463-5467, 1977.
Chen, et al. "Supercoil Sequencing: A Fast and Simple Method for Sequencing Plasmid DNA", DNA, 4,2: 165-170, 1985.
Tabor, et al. "DNA sequence analysis with a modified bacteriophage T7 DNA polymerase", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 84: 4767-4771, 1987.
Chao, et al. "Investigate The Nature Of Viral Persistent Infections Using Hz-1 Baculovirus As A Model System", Mol. Ent. Symp., pp. 33-47, Jul., 1990.
Aubusel, et al. "Preparation and Analysis of RNA", Current Protocols In Molecular Biologypp. 4.0.1-4.2.2, 1988.
Stephenson, et al. "Molecular analysis of the swallow gene on Drosophila melanogaster", Genes and Development, 2: 1655-1665, 1988.
Melton, et al. "Efficient in vitro synthesis of biologically active RNA and RNA . . . ", Nucleic Acids Research, 12, 18: 7035-7056, 1984.
Fickett "Recognition of protein coding regions in DNA sequences", Nucleic Acids Research, 10,17: 5303-5318, 1982.
Zuker, et al. "Optimal computer folding of large RNA sequences using thermodynamics and auxiliary information", Nucleic Acids Research, 9,1: 133-148, 1981.
Freier, et al. "Improved free-energy parameters for predictions of RNA duplex stability", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 83: 9373-9377, 1986.
Spivack, et al. "Detection of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Transcripts during Latent Infection in Mice", Journal of Virology, pp. 3841-3847, Dec., 1987.
Steiner, et al. "Herpes simplex virus type 1 latency-associated transcripts re evidently not essential . . . ", The EMBO Journal, 8,2: 505-511, 1989.
Ho, et al. "Herpes simplex virus latent RNA (LAT) is not required for latent infection in the mouse", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 86: 7596-7600, 1989.
Block, et al. "A Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Latency-Associated Transcript Mutant Reactivates . . . ", Journal of Virology, pp. 3417-3426, Jul., 1990.
Zwaagstra, et al. "Activity of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Latency-Associated Transcript (LAT) Promoter in Neuron-Derived Cells . . .", Journal of Virology, pp. 5019-5028, Oct., 1990.
Sharp, et al. "HIV TAR: An RNA Enhancer?", Cell, 5-: 229-230, 1989.
Brockdorff, et al. The Product of the Mouse Xist Gene Is a 17 kb Inactive X-Specific Transcript Containing . . . , 71: 515-526, 1992.
Brown, et al. "The Human Xist Gene: Analysis of a 17 kb Inactive X-Specific RNA That Contains . . . ", Call, 71: 527-542, 1992.
Lee, et al. "Pulse-Labeled Ribonucleic Acid Complexes Released by Dissociation of Rat Liver Polysomes", Biochemistry, 10,3: 510-517, 1971.
Brockdorff, et al. "Conservation of position and exclusive expression of mouse Xist from the inactive X chromosome", Letters to Nature, 351: 329-331, 1991.
Brown, et al. "A gene from the region of the human X inactivation centre is expressed exclusively from . . . ", Nature, 349: 38-44, 1991.
Campbell, et al. "Identification of Herpes Simplex Virus DNA Sequences Which Encode a Trans-acting Polypeptide . . . ", J. Mol. Biol., 180: 1-19, 1984.
Steiner, et al. "A Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Mutant Containing a Nontransinducing Vmw65 Protein . . . ", Journal of Virology, pp. 1630-1638, Apr., 1990.
Weinheimer, et al. "Deletion of the VP16 Open Reading Frame of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1", Journal of Virology, pp. 258-269, Jan., 1992.
Rooney, et al. "Genome rearrangements activate the Epstein-Barr virus gene whose product disrupts latency", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 85: 9801-9805, 1988.
Flemington, et al. "Autoregulation of Epstein-Barr Virus Putati

LandOfFree

Say what you really think

Search LandOfFree.com for the USA inventors and patents. Rate them and share your experience with other people.

Rating

Prevention of viral infection by the induction of apoptosis and/ does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Prevention of viral infection by the induction of apoptosis and/, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Prevention of viral infection by the induction of apoptosis and/ will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

     

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-2395026

  Search
All data on this website is collected from public sources. Our data reflects the most accurate information available at the time of publication.