Protein and Nucleic Acid Delivery Vehicles, Components and Mechanisms Thereof
    6.
    发明申请
    Protein and Nucleic Acid Delivery Vehicles, Components and Mechanisms Thereof 有权
    蛋白质和核酸递送载体,其组分和机制

    公开(公告)号:US20140335158A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-11-13

    申请号:US14322097

    申请日:2014-07-02

    发明人: Venigalla B. Rao

    IPC分类号: C12N15/86 A61K47/48 C12N7/00

    摘要: Complex viruses are assembled from simple protein subunits by sequential and irreversible assembly. During genome packaging in bacteriophages, a powerful molecular motor assembles at the special portal vertex of an empty prohead to initiate packaging. An aspect of the invention relates to the phage T4 packaging machine being highly promiscuous, translocating DNA into finished phage heads as well as into proheads. Single motors can force exogenous DNA into phage heads at the same rate as into proheads and phage heads undergo repeated initiations, packaging multiple DNA molecules into the same head. This shows that the phage DNA packaging machine has unusual conformational plasticity, powering DNA into an apparently passive capsid receptacle, including the highly stable virus shell, until it is full. These features allow for the design of a novel class of nanocapsid delivery vehicles.

    摘要翻译: 复杂病毒通过顺序和不可逆组装由简单蛋白质亚基组装。 在噬菌体的基因组包装过程中,一个强大的分子马达组装在一个空头颅的特殊门户顶点,开始包装。 本发明的一个方面涉及高度混杂的噬菌体T4包装机,将DNA转运到成品噬菌体头以及pro头中。 单个电机可以将外源DNA以与头孢子相同的速率强制进入噬菌体头,并且噬菌体头经历反复引发,将多个DNA分子包装在相同的头中。 这表明噬菌体DNA包装机具有不寻常的构象可塑性,将DNA提供到明显被动的衣壳容器中,包括高度稳定的病毒壳,直至其充满。 这些特征允许设计一种新型的纳米框输送车辆。

    Chimeric capsid proteins and uses thereof
    10.
    发明申请
    Chimeric capsid proteins and uses thereof 审中-公开
    嵌合衣壳蛋白及其用途

    公开(公告)号:US20040002058A1

    公开(公告)日:2004-01-01

    申请号:US10329987

    申请日:2002-12-26

    发明人: Larry Cosenza

    摘要: The present invention encompasses chimeric capsid proteins, nucleic acids encoding such proteins and capsids containing chimeric capsid proteins. Methods of making the chimeric capsid proteins, the nucleic acids that encode such proteins and capsids that contain chimeric capsid proteins are also encompassed within the scope of the invention. The invention further encompasses the use of the chimeric capsid proteins to produce protein elements and to present the elements for use in structure-function studies, for use as therapeutic factors and for other purposes. Other embodiments of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the invention disclosed herein. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only.

    摘要翻译: 本发明包括嵌合衣壳蛋白,编码这种蛋白质的核酸和含有嵌合衣壳蛋白的衣壳。 制备嵌合衣壳蛋白,编码这种蛋白质的核酸和含有嵌合衣壳蛋白的衣壳的方法也包括在本发明的范围内。 本发明还包括嵌合衣壳蛋白用于产生蛋白质元件并呈现用于结构功能研究的元件,用作治疗因素和用于其它目的的用途。 通过考虑本文公开的本发明的说明书和实践,本发明的其它实施例对于本领域技术人员将是显而易见的。 旨在将说明书和实施例视为仅作为示例。