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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 1990
Filed:
Oct. 20, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Flossie Wong-Staal, Rockville, MD (US);
Pranab K Chanda, Paoli, PA (US);
John Ghrayeb, Thorndale, PA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ; C07H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435320 ; 536 27 ; 4351723 ; 435235 ;
Abstract
The present invention is the isolation and purification of a newly discovered gene of the AIDS virus, HTLV-III, which encodes a protein which is immunogenic and recognized by sera of some HTLV-III seropositive people. Furthermore, the gene is highly conserved among all known HTLV-III isolates and exhibits a polymorphism at the 3' end which distinguishes molecular clones of the HTLV-III cell line from viral genomes of related viruses (i.e., other HTLV-III isolates, LAV, ARV, etc.).