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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 31, 1995
Mark Feinberg, San Francisco, CA (US);
Raul Andino, New York, NY (US);
Carolyn Louise Weeks-Levy, Valhalla, NY (US);
Patricia Anne Reilly, Glen Rock, NJ (US);
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA (US);
American Cynamid Company, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Abstract
Replication-competent recombinant viruses, particularly replication-competent recombinant polioviruses, which include (1) exogenous nucleic acid sequences which encode an exogenous polypeptide and (2) a nucleic acid sequence which encodes an artificial proteolytic cleavage site for a viral or cellular protease which proteolytically processes (cleaves) the precursor protein produced by the parent virus and uses therefor. The recombinant precursor is cleaved into the usual array of constituent proteins, freeing the exogenous polypeptide. Replication-competent recombinant viruses are useful as vaccines against bacterial, viral, fungal and yeast infections, parasitic diseases, cancer and allergies.