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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 1999
Filed:
May. 31, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Fuller Warren Bazer, College Station, TX (US);
Howard Marcellus Johnson, Gainesville, FL (US);
Carol Hanlon Pontzer, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Troy Lee Ott, Bryan, TX (US);
Gino Van Heeke, Witterswil, CH;
Assignee:
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; C12N / ; C07K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424 854 ; 435 6951 ;
Abstract
The invention provides antiviral therapeutic methods employing bovine or ovine interferon-tau (IFN-.tau.) proteins and polypeptides. The IFN-.tau. proteins exhibit the antiviral and antiproliferative properties characteristic of type I interferons. An advantage of the invention is that IFN-.tau. has essentially no cytotoxic effects on treated cells as does, for example, IFN-.alpha..