摘要:
A combination of an HCV antigen for inducing an antibody having the activity of inhibiting HCV infection and an optimum adjuvant is discovered, so as to provide an effective HCV vaccine composition. The hepatitis C virus vaccine composition comprises: inactivated viral particles obtained by inactivating infectious hepatitis C virus particles prepared from hepatitis C virus genome that contains sequences encoding NS3 protein, NS4A protein, NS4B protein, NS5A protein and NS5B protein derived from hepatitis C virus JFH1 strain; an oligonucleotide containing unmethylated CpG, according to SEQ ID NO: 5 in the sequence listing; and aluminium hydroxide.
摘要翻译:发现用于诱导具有抑制HCV感染活性的抗体的HCV抗原与最佳佐剂的组合,以提供有效的HCV疫苗组合物。 丙型肝炎病毒疫苗组合物包含:灭活由丙型肝炎病毒基因组制备的感染性丙型肝炎病毒颗粒获得的灭活病毒颗粒,其含有编码NS3蛋白,NS4A蛋白,NS4B蛋白,NS5A蛋白和来源于丙型肝炎病毒JFH1菌株的NS5B蛋白的序列 ; 含有序列表中SEQ ID NO:5的未甲基化CpG的寡核苷酸; 和氢氧化铝。
摘要:
This invention provides infectious chimeric HCV particles that can be used for vaccines. This invention further provides a nucleic acid comprising a chimeric gene derived from the hepatitis C virus comprising regions each encoding Core protein, E1 protein, E2 protein and p7 protein derived from a hepatitis C virus strain other than JFH-1 strain; NS2 protein derived from JFH-1 strain or a hepatitis C virus strain other than JFH-1 strain, or a chimeric NS2 protein of NS2 protein derived from JFH-1 strain and NS2 protein derived from a hepatitis C virus strain other than JFH-1 strain; and NS3 protein, NS4A protein, NS4B protein, NS5A protein, and NS5B protein derived from JFH-1 strain in that order in 5' to 3' direction, wherein the 328th proline residue from the amino acid residue at N-terminus of the Core protein is substituted with an amino acid residue other than proline. This invention further provides chimeric HCV particles comprising such nucleic acid, and use of such HCV particles for vaccines.
摘要:
The objection of the invention is to provide an antibody that inhibits infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV). To this end, this invention provides an antibody that recognizes the hepatitis C virus (HCV) particle obtained from the hepatitis C virus (HCV) genome comprising the following (i) and (ii) ligated to each other as an antigen and has an inhibitory activity on infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV): (i) (a) the 5'-untranslated region, the core protein-encoding sequence, the E1 protein-encoding sequence, the E2 protein-encoding sequence, and the p7 protein-encoding sequence of the JFH-1 strain of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) or (b) the 5'-untranslated region, the core protein-encoding sequence, the E1 protein-encoding sequence, the E2 protein-encoding sequence, and the p7 protein-encoding sequence of the J6CF strain the hepatitis C virus (HCV); and (ii) the NS2 protein-encoding sequence, the NS3 protein-encoding sequence, the NS4A protein-encoding sequence, the NS4B protein-encoding sequence, the NS5A protein-encoding sequence, the NS5B protein-encoding sequence, and the 3'-untranslated region of the JFH-1 strain.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method for producing a recombinant hepatitis C virus-like particle comprising the steps of introducing into (i) a cell in which an RNA replicon comprising a nucleotide sequence comprising the 5' untranslated region, the nucleotide sequence coding for the NS3, NS4A, NS4B, NS5A, and NS5B proteins, and the 3' untranslated region of a genome RNA derived from a hepatitis C virus strain autonomously replicates, (ii) a vector expressing the Core, E1, E2, and p7 proteins derived from a hepatitis C virus strain that is the same as or different from that as defined in the above (i), culturing the cell, and recovering the produced virus-like particle, and a recombinant hepatitis C virus particle produced by this method.
摘要:
This invention relates to a nucleic acid comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding an epitope tag peptide in the hypervariable region 1 of the E2 protein of naturally occurring or chimeric hepatitis C virus (HCV) genome, an epitope-tagged HCV particle encoded by such nucleic acid, and a method for purifying the HCV particles at a high purity in a simple manner with the use of an anti-epitope tag antibody-immobilized support.
摘要:
The present invention provides an anti-hepatitis C virus E2 protein antibody or antigen-binding antibody fragment thereof having infection inhibiting activity against hepatitis C virus (HCV). The present invention further provides an anti-hepatitis C virus E2 protein antibody or antigen-binding antibody fragment thereof comprising a certain variable region, which have infection inhibiting activity against hepatitis C virus (HCV) and exhibits an escape mutant emergence suppressive property.
摘要:
Provided are a HCV particle formation promoter capable of promoting formation of HCV particles in culture cells, and a method of enhancing production of HCV particles. Also provided are a method of evaluating an anti-HCV agent candidate substance, and a method of producing a HCV vaccine. The HCV particle formation promoter comprises as an active ingredient a statin or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Addition of the statin or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof to HCV-infected culture cells can promote formation of infectious HCV particles and enhance production of the particles. In addition, an anti-HCV agent candidate substance is evaluated by culturing HCV-infected cells in the presence of the HCV particle formation promoter and the anti-HCV agent candidate substance. Further, a HCV vaccine is produced by using HCV particles produced by the method of enhancing production of HCV particles.
摘要:
A hepatitis type C animal model into which cDNA derived from hepatitis C virus has been introduced. This animal model is useful for clarification of an onset mechanism of hepatitis C and as well as for development of means for treating the disease.