摘要:
The present invention provides a Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus replicon RNA useful in the development of stable lines of mammalian, avian and insect cells in which these replicons will persistently replicate. Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) virus replicons contain a number of unique adaptive mutations that make the replicons noncytopathic. The replicons remain resistant to IFN-α/β. Replicon replication leads to high-level production of heterologous proteins, which are encoded by the replicons' genome and are under the control of a viral subgenomic promoter. Also provided are methods of screening for inhibitory compounds of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus replication and eastern equine encephalitis virus replication.
摘要:
The present invention provides pseudoinfectious alphavirus particles and methods of making them and using them to produce an immune response to an alphavirus in a subject.
摘要:
The present invention provides a Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus replicon RNA useful in the development of stable lines of mammalian, avian and insect cells in which these replicons will persistently replicate. Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) virus replicons contain a number of unique adaptive mutations that make the replicons noncytopathic. The replicons remain resistant to IFN-α/β. Replicon replication leads to high-level production of heterologous proteins, which are encoded by the replicons' genome and are under the control of a viral subgenomic promoter. Also provided are methods of screening for inhibitory compounds of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus replication and eastern equine encephalitis virus replication.
摘要:
The present invention provides pseudoinfectious alphavirus particles and methods of making them and using them to produce an immune response to an alphavirus in a subject.
摘要:
The present invention discloses a replication-deficient pseudoinfective virus belonging to the Flaviviridae family that lack the capsid gene, where the replication-deficient pseudoinfective virus propagates only in cells expressing the capsid or capsid, prM and envelope protein of the flavivirus. The present also discloses the method of producing such viruses on a large scale and the use of these pseudoinfective viruses as vaccines for preventing diseases caused by infections of humans or animals by the viruses belonging to this family.
摘要:
The present invention discloses a replication-deficient pseudoinfective virus belonging to the Flaviviridae family that lack the capsid gene, where the replication-deficient pseudoinfective virus propagates only in cells expressing the capsid or capsid, prM and envelope protein of the flavivirus. The present also discloses the method of producing such viruses on a large scale and the use of these pseudoinfective viruses as vaccines for preventing diseases caused by infections of humans or animals by the viruses belonging to this family.
摘要:
The present invention discloses a replication-deficient pseudoinfective virus belonging to the Flaviviridae family that lack the capsid gene, where the replication-deficient pseudoinfective virus propagates only in cells expressing the capsid or capsid, prM and envelope protein of the flavivirus. The present also discloses the method of producing such viruses on a large scale and the use of these pseudoinfective viruses as vaccines for preventing diseases caused by infections of humans or animals by the viruses belonging to this family.
摘要:
The present invention discloses a replication-deficient pseudoinfective virus belonging to the Flaviviridae family that lack the capsid gene, where the replication-deficient pseudoinfective virus propagates only in cells expressing the capsid or capsid, prM and envelope protein of the flavivirus. The present also discloses the method of producing such viruses on a large scale and the use of these pseudoinfective viruses as vaccines for preventing diseases caused by infections of humans or animals by the viruses belonging to this family.
摘要:
Large-scale packaging of alphavirus replicons is accomplished by co-transfecting host cells with three RNA molecules: (1) an alphavirus replicon comprising a sequence encoding a heterologous protein; (2) a helper RNA encoding a capsid protein and (3) a helper RNA encoding two alphavirus glycoproteins. The helper RNAs contain cis-acting elements that allow efficient replication of the helper RNAs and their packaging into viral particles as well as packaging of replicon genomes. These populations of viral particles can be propagated at high titers in cell culture by infecting cells at high multiplicity. Propagation of packaged replicons at an escalating scale is useful for large-scale production of recombinant proteins and/or vaccine.
摘要:
The present invention is drawn to generating attenuated and less cytopathic forms of New World alphaviruses that can be used in immunogenic compositions as vaccines against both Old and New World alphaviruses. In this regard, the present invention discloses that the N-terminal, ˜35-aa-long peptide of VEEV, EEEV and, most likely, of WEEV capsid proteins plays the most critical role in the downregulation of cellular transcription and development of cytopathic effect. The identified, VEEV-specific peptide, CVEE30-68, includes two domains with distinguished functions. The integrity of both domains determines not only the intracellular distribution of CVEE, but is also essential for direct capsid function in the inhibition of transcription. The replacement of the N-terminal fragment of CVEE by its SINV-specific counterpart in VEEV TC-83 genome does not affect virus replication in vitro, but makes it less cytopathic and more attenuated in vivo.