Cornell University

The Rockefeller University

Cure Ahc, Inc.

Hope for Annabel

Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood Foundation

Dolan Sondhi

Ronald G Crystal

Tom W Muir

Stephen Kaminsky

Philip A Cole

Katie Stiles

Simon Frost

Meredith Sosulski

Konstantine Severinov

Jonathan Rosenberg

Neil Hackett

Bishnu De

Natalia Morsci

A gene therapy treatment for alpha 1-antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency is provided comprising a plasmid or viral, e.g., an AAV, vector coding for an elastase- or cathepsin G-inhibiting, oxidation-resistant human AAT with a substitution at, for example, Met358 and/or Met351.

Oxidation-resistant AAT gene therapy

This invention relates to a transgenic vector for transducing cells of a mammal's CNS and transgenically expressing a protein in the mammal's CNS. The transgenic vector comprises a virus-derived vector, a nucleic acid sequence encoding the protein, and an endogenous ATP1A3 promoter sequence. This invention also relates to a composition comprising a recombinant AAV vector comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding a ATP1A3 protein, in a form compatible with administration into the CNS. The invention also relates to a method for treating a subject having a neurological disorder associated with mutations in the ATP1A3 gene and a method for delivering a transgenic ATP1A3 DNA to the central nervous system of a mammal by administering the recombinant AAV vector into the mammal's CNS.

AAV-mediated delivery of ATP1A3 genes to central nervous system

The present invention provides a method of cleaving a recombinantly expressed protein from an intein and ligating the protein to a peptide containing an N-terminal cysteine having an unoxidized sulfhydryl side chain which comprises contacting the protein with the peptide in a reaction solution comprising a conjugated thiophenol, thereby forming a C-terminal thioester of the recombinant protein which spontaneously rearranges intramolecularly to form an amide bond linking the protein to the peptide. The present invention also provides a method of producing a protein-chip composition comprising the steps of: (a) contacting a solid support chip containing an amine group with a peptide containing an N-terminal cysteine having an unoxidized sulfhydryl side chain thereby covalently linking the peptide to the solid support, forming a peptide-chip; and (b) contacting a recombinant protein having an intein domain with the peptide-chip of step (a) with a reaction solution containing a conjugated thiophenol, thereby forming a C-terminal thioester of the recombinant protein which spontaneously rearranges intramoleculaly to form an amide bond covalently linking the protein to the peptide-chip, thereby producing a protein-chip composition.

Methods of ligating expressed proteins

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