Intrexon Corporation

Mbf Therapeutics, Inc.

Percipiad, Inc.

Malla Padidam

Robert Eugene Hormann

Lorraine Keller

The present invention provides boron-containing isoquinoline compounds as protein kinase-modulating compounds. These compounds are useful as neuroprotective and neuro-regenerative agents for the amelioration of glaucoma and other ocular neuropathies.

Boron-containing rho kinase inhibitors

This invention provides new compositions comprising nucleotide sequence(s) encoding alphaherpesvirus glycoprotein D protein(s) (gDP(s)) and antigen(s) that induce immune responses. Such sequences typically encode gDP:antigen fusion proteins and typically also include feature(s) that significantly enhance immune responses such as (a) sequences encoding ITIC signal transducing adaptor proteins, e.g., SLAM-associated proteins (SAPs), Ewing's sarcoma-associated transcript 2 proteins, or both, or non-gDP checkpoint inhibitor(s); (b) sequences encoding antigen-associated targeting sequences, e.g., polyubiquitin sequences; (c) deimmunized/modified antigen-encoding sequences; (d) gDP(s) with modified sequence(s); (e) expression-enhancing introns; (f) transfection-facilitating agents; or (g) combinations thereof. Methods of using such constructs to induce immune responses and other methods and compositions also are provided, including methods of using such constructs in animals not known to express Herpesvirus entry mediator (HVEM) receptors (e.g., pigs), animals not under disease agent-associated checkpoint inhibition, and other contexts.

Alphaherpesvirus glycoprotein d-encoding nucleic acid constructs and methods

The present invention provides a method for obtaining site-specific recombination in a eukaryotic cell, the method comprising providing a eukaryotic cell that comprises a first recombination attachment site and a second recombination attachment site; contacting the first and second recombination attachment sites with a prokaryotic recombinase polypeptide, resulting in recombination between the recombination attachment sites, wherein the recombinase polypeptide can mediate recombination between the first and second recombination attachment sites, the first recombination attachment site is a phage genomic recombination attachment site (attP) or a bacterial genomic recombination attachment site (attB), the second recombination site is attB or attP, and the recombinase is selected from the group consisting of aphage recombinase, aphage recombinase, aphage recombinase, aphage recombinase and aphage recombinase, provided that when the first recombination attachment site is attB, the second recombination attachment site is attP and when the first recombination attachment site is attP, the second recombination attachment site is attB. The invention also describes compositions, vectors, and methods of use thereof, for the generation of transgenic cells, tissues, plants, and animals. The compositions, vectors and methods of the present invention are also useful in gene therapy applications.

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