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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 1997
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Savio L Woo, Houston, TX (US);
Peter W Nordloh, Burlington, IA (US);
Arne Stenlund, Cold Spring Harbor, NY (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P / ; C12P / ; C12P / ; C12N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435 691 ; 435 691 ; 435 694 ; 435 695 ; 435 696 ; 435 701 ; 4352401 ; 4353201 ; 935 60 ;
Abstract
An episomal vector sytem and methods for use in gene therapy in humans and animals. The vector contains a papilloma virus origin of replication, a vector maintenance sequence, a first promoter transcriptionally linked to a therapeutic nucleic acid sequence, a second promoter transcriptionally linked to a papilloma virus E1 gene sequence, and a third promoter transcriptionally linked to a papilloma virus E2 gene sequence or an E1/E2 fusion gene. The vector is capable of episomal replication in human or animal cells.