摘要:
The present invention provides methods for efficiently inducing anti-Aβ antibody and methods for preventing and treating Alzheimer's disease. The present inventors successfully induced anti-Aβ antibody in a highly efficient manner by administering an RNA viral vector that expresses a fusion protein between an AB5 toxin B subunit and an Aβ antigen peptide. Administration of the vector resulted in a significant increase of anti-Aβ antibody in plasma, and decrease in the Aβ level in brain tissues and decrease in the anti-Aβ antibody-positive area. The present invention enables more efficient vaccine gene therapy for preventing and treating Alzheimer's disease.
摘要:
An objective of the present invention is to provide safe viral vectors for gene therapy that can be introduced by a simple technique and sufficiently express genes of interest in vivo. The present inventors demonstrated that anti-tumor effect can be produced when a heparin-binding cytokine such as granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and a chemokine such as TARC or RANTES are expressed in vivo using a viral vector based on a negative-strand RNA virus. The present inventors also demonstrated that the protective effect of the vector is superior to that of conventional adenovirus vectors. Thus, the present invention relates to negative-strand RNA viral vectors comprising a cytokine gene and a chemokine gene. The viral vectors are suitable for treatment of cancers, in particular, metastatic cancers. The present invention also provides compositions comprising such viral vectors, and gene therapy methods using them.
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The present inventors devised a protein expression system with coexisting MiniSeV and SeV particles, and assessed the system for the ability to transfer a gene(s) of interest into target cells, and to express the gene(s) in the target cells. It was shown that the expression system of the present invention had a high ability to transfer a gene(s) of interest into target cells, and a high ability to express the gene(s) in the target cells.
摘要:
The present invention provides methods for enhancing protein expression from an RNA viral vector and RNA viral vectors with enhanced protein expression capacity. The present inventors successfully increased the level of protein expression significantly by expressing the proteins fused with an AB5B protein from RNA viral vectors. Effective gene therapy, gene vaccination, monoclonal antibody preparation, or such can be achieved by using a gene transfer RNA viral vector of the present invention.
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The present inventors succeeded in producing non-replicating SeV vectors whose genomic RNAs lack all genes for the NP, P, and L proteins, which are RNP-constituting proteins. The present inventors confirmed that the NP/P/L-deficient SeV vectors carrying a marker gene such as GFP provide high productivity, and high transfer and expression efficiencies of foreign genes (high MOI infection is essential for achieving high expression levels). By lacking the L gene or two or more of the NP, P, and L genes, the vectors of the present invention enable lowering the level of virus-derived proteins expressed in host cells, thereby reducing the immunogenicity upon in vivo administration.
摘要翻译:本发明人成功地生产了非复制型SeV载体,其基因组RNA缺乏作为构成RNP的蛋白质的NP,P和L蛋白的所有基因。 本发明人确认携带GFP等标记基因的NP / P / L-缺陷型SeV载体提供高生产率,外源基因的高转移和表达效率(高MOI感染对于获得高表达水平至关重要)。 通过缺乏L基因或两个以上的NP,P和L基因,本发明的载体能够降低在宿主细胞中表达的病毒衍生的蛋白质的水平,从而降低体内给药时的免疫原性。
摘要:
The present invention provides methods for treating tumors, which comprise the step of administering into tumor sites a minus-strand RNA viral vector encoding an immunostimulatory cytokine or cells introduced with the vector. The present invention also provides compositions for treating tumors, which comprise as an active ingredient the minus-strand RNA viral vector encoding an immunostimulatory cytokine or cells introduced with the vector. The present invention also provides kits for treating tumors, which comprise the minus-strand RNA viral vector encoding an immunostimulatory cytokine, and a tumor antigen or a vector expressing the antigen.
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The present invention provides transformed bone marrow-related cells that are associated with tissue maintenance and/or repair. Further, the invention provides methods for diagnosing and treating diseased tissues using the transformed bone marrow-related cells. The transformed bone marrow-related cells of the present invention are transformed bone marrow-related cells that are introduced with gene-carrying vectors and that are associated with tissue maintenance and/or repair. Moreover, the methods for preparing the transformed bone marrow-related cells of the present invention comprise the step of using gene-carrying vectors to introduce genes to bone marrow-related cells taken from mammals.
摘要:
The present invention provides methods for treating tumors, which comprise the step of administering into tumor sites a minus-strand RNA viral vector encoding an immunostimulatory cytokine or cells introduced with the vector. The present invention also provides compositions for treating tumors, which comprise as an active ingredient the minus-strand RNA viral vector encoding an immunostimulatory cytokine or cells introduced with the vector. The present invention also provides kits for treating tumors, which comprise the minus-strand RNA viral vector encoding an immunostimulatory cytokine, and a tumor antigen or a vector expressing the antigen.
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The present invention provides paramyxoviral vectors expressing polypeptides that comprise antibody variable regions. A vector of this invention, encoding antibody variable regions of the H and L chains, succeeded in simultaneously expressing these antibody chains to form a Fab, and further succeeded in expressing a single chain antibody at a high level. The vectors of this invention are suitable as vectors for gene therapy, to be administered in vivo or ex vivo to living bodies. In particular, vectors expressing antibody fragments against neurite outgrowth inhibitors are useful in gene therapies for nerve lesions. Further, vectors of this invention that express antibodies which inhibit immune activation signal transduction enable the long-term expression of genes from the vectors.
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The present invention provides methods for producing DCs, which comprise the step of culturing DC precursor cells in the presence of multiple cytokines, dendritic cells produced thereby, and uses thereof. The methods of the present invention enable production of large quantities of DC precursors with a high ability to differentiate into DCs. The present invention enables one to obtain large quantities of DCs from a small number of DC precursor cells, and therefore makes it easier to increase the number of DCs for administration in DC-based anti-tumor immunotherapy, treatment of infection, and such. Thus, an enhancement is expected for the effect of DC vaccines.