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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 14, 1997
Paul F Torrence, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Robert Hugh Silverman, Beachwood, OH (US);
Nick Mario Cirino, Cleveland Heights, OH (US);
Guiying Li, Durham, NC (US);
Wei Xiao, North Potomac, MD (US);
The Cleveland Clinic Fouindation and Government, Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
The invention concerns a compounds and methods for treating infection with Respiratory Syncytial Virus. The compounds comprise an antisense portion, which is complementary to a normally single stranded portion of the RSV antigenomic strand (the mRNA strand), a linker and a oligonucleotide activator of RNase L, a ubiquitous non-specific RNase. The method comprised forming a complex of an activated RNase L and the antisense molecule. The application teaches methods of determining which portions of the RSV antigenomic strand are normally single-stranded. The application teaches that an antisense oligonucleotide having the sequence of residues 8281-8299 of the RSV genome is particularly useful to practice the invention and provides in vitro results superior to those obtainable with the conventional drug of choice, ribavirin.