Osaka University

Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Zoki Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Koichi Yamanishi

Michiaki Takahashi

Yasuko Mori

Masaya Takemoto

Yasuyuki Gomi

Isao Fuke

Kenjiro Tadagaki

Toshio Yamada

Motohiro Kondo

Kazuhiro Kondo

Toshiya Aono

Masaya Segawa

Hiroki Sunamachi

Michlaki Takahashi

Keiko Taya

A recombinant herpesvirus, a method for producing the recombinant herpesvirus, and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the recombinant herpesvirus, are provided with a method for producing a recombinant herpesvirus using a BAC vector sequence. In addition, a vector comprising a herpesvirus genomic gene and a BAC vector sequence, a cell comprising the vector, and a nucleic acid cassette comprising a fragment, which is capable of homologous recombination with a herpesvirus genome, and a BAC vector sequence, are provided.

Recombinant viral vector for gene transfer into lymphoid cells

It is intended to provide a promoter for inducing expression selectively and strongly in an immunocompetent cell and/or a blood cell such as a lymphocyte. In the invention, the object was achieved by finding that HHV6 MIE promoter, HHV7 MIE promoter and HHV7 U95 promoter unexpectedly induce a specific expression in an immunocompetent cell and/or a blood cell such as a T lymphocyte. By utilizing the promoters, a selective delivery of a DNA vaccine or the like can be realized.

Promoter for introducing a gene into a lymphocyte or blood cell and application thereof

Disclosed is a method for quality control of an attenuated varicella live vaccine, which comprises subjecting the genomic DNA of a sample varicella vaccine virus to sequence analysis and confirming that the genomic DNA of the sample varicella vaccine virus conserves the 5,745th G, the 105,356th C, the 105,544th G, the 106,262nd C and the 107,252nd C without suffering mutation, wherein the nucleotide numbers are in accordance with the nucleotide numbering system of the nucleotide sequence of the genomic DNA of the varicella virus Dumas strain of SEQ ID NO: 1.

Method for quality control of an attenuated vericella live vaccine

Antiviral Ara-A derivatives having resistance to metabolism by adenosinedeaminase (ADA) are 2-substituted arabinosyladenine derivatives represented by the formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and hydrates thereof:

Arabinosyladenine derivatives

The present invention relates to two primers for amplifying a cytomegalovirus (CMV) nucleic acid suitable for a nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (NASBA) using a DNA-dependent RNA polymerase, a first primer containing a promoter sequence and a nucleic acid sequence consisting of at least fifteen continuous bases selected from the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1; a second primer containing a nucleic acid sequence consisting of at least fifteen continuous bases selected from the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2, NO:3 or NO:4; a detecting probe and/or a capturing probe containing a nucleic acid sequence consisting of at least continuous fifteen bases selected from the nucleic acid sequence(s) of SEQ ID NO:5, NO:6 and/or NO:7 wherein said sequence is modified if necessary; a reagent kit for detecting a CMV containing the above-mentioned primers and probes; and a nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (NASBA) using said primers. The advantages of the present invention are that CMV can be detected in an easy, rapid and specific manner with a high sensitivity.

Oligonucleotides, methods and kits for amplifying and detecting a

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Koichi Yamanishi