摘要:
The present invention relates to gene therapy. In particular, therapeutic agents, therapeutic gene products, and compositions are disclosed. Various systems and methods useful in targeting and delivering non-native nucleotide sequences to specific cells are disclosed, wherein virus-antibody-ligand conjugates are used to facilitate targeting and delivery.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method of enhancing the chemosensitivity and radiosensitivity of a neoplastic cell expressing an oncoprotein that stimulates proliferation of the cell, comprising introducing into the cell a nucleic acid molecule encoding an antibody homologue, wherein the antibody homologue is expressed intracellularly and binds to the oncoprotein intracellularly in the endoplasmic reticulum of the cell. The present invention is also directed to a method for enhancing the inhibition of proliferation of a neoplastic cell expressing an oncoprotein that stimulates proliferation of the cell, comprising the steps of: introducing into the cell a nucleic acid molecule encoding an antibody homologue, wherein the antibody homologue is expressed intracellularly and binds to the protein intracellularly; and contacting said cell with an anti-neoplastic agent.
摘要:
Conjugates in which a virus is bound via an antibody to a substance having an affinity for nucleic acid, for transporting gene constructs into higher eucaryotic cells. Complexes of the conjugates and nucleic acid are internalized in the cell, whilst the virus as part of the complex brings about the internalization and the release of the contents of the endosomes, in which the complexes are located after entering the cell. Pharmaceutical preparations in which the nucleic acid is a therapeutically active gene construct, particularly for use in gene therapy.
摘要:
The present invention describes recombinant adenoviral vectors modified by incorporating targeting ligands or label into viral capsid or structural proteins. In one embodiment, single-chain antibody was introduced into the minor capsid proteins pIIIa or pIX so that the adenoviral vector can be targeted to a particular cell type. In another embodiment, there is provided a noninvasive imaging strategy useful for monitoring the replication and spread of conditionally replicative adenoviral vectors. Viral structural proteins such as pIX capsid protein, core proteins mu, V and VII were expressed as fusion protein with a fluorescent label. Once incorporated into the virions, detection of the structural fusion protein label would indicate the localization of the disseminated viral progeny. The detected fluorescent signals also closely correlate with the level of viral replication and progeny production.
摘要:
The present invention provides a strategy that allows for selective switching off of both transgene and viral gene expression in tissues where such expression is undesirable. The present invention employs a vector containing a tissue specific promoter that drives expression of Cre recombinase gene in tissue where transgene expression is undesirable. As a result of Cre recombinase expression, the same or another vector that expresses the transgene in that tissue will be cut by the action of the Cre recombinase into several pieces due to LoxP sites that are strategically placed within the vector backbone. Consequently, unwanted transgene as well as viral gene expression are prevented.
摘要:
The present invention provides a means for the propagation of adenovirus lacking the native tropism by using genetic methods to modify the fiber protein by addition of a C-terminal tag. The modified virus is then propagated in a cell line transfected with a sequence encoding an artificial receptor for the C-terminal tag on the modified fiber protein.
摘要:
The present invention describes a recombinant adenoviral vector in which a single-chain antibody has been introduced into the minor capsid proteins, pIIha or pIX, so that the adenoviral vector can be targeted to a particular cell type. Additionally disclosed is a method of using the recombinant adenoviral vector in targeted gene therapy.
摘要:
The present invention provides an adenoviral vector encoding an anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 gene for cytoprotection, gene therapy, and cellular and organ transplantation. Also provided are various methods of using said adenoviral vector to protect cells for cellular transplantation, or organs for both allotransplantation and xenotransplantation, to improve organ preservation for transplantation, to reduce ischemial/reperfusion injury, to protect endothelial cells from various inducers of injury, and to prolong transgene expression.
摘要:
The present invention provides a chimeric viral vector system having a highly efficient in vivo gene delivery to cells after vascular administration and an intergrative capacity of heterologous gene sequences for stable genetic modification of cells after transduction. In this chimeric vector, an adenoviral vector is employed to deliver retroviral functions to a cell for local, in situ production of retroviral particles inside the cell by the construction of replication-defective adenoviral vectors which contain either retroviral “packaging” functions (retroviral genes gag, pol, env) and retroviral “vector” functions (retroviral LTR sequences flanking the “therapeutic” gene).
摘要:
A composition for the transfection of higher eucaryotic cells, comprising complexes of nucleic acid, a substance having an affinity for nucleic acid and optionally an internalizing factor, contains an endosomolytic agent, e.g. a virus or virus component, which may be conjugated. The endosomolytic agent, which is optionally part of the nucleic acid complex, is internalized into the cells together with the complex and releases the contents of the endosomes into the cytoplasm, thereby increasing the gene transfer capacity. Pharmaceutical preparations, transfection kits and methods for introducing nucleic acid into higher eucaryotic cells by treating the cells with the composition are also disclosed.