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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 29, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Georges Natsoulis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gary Kurtzman, Villanova, PA (US);
Peter Colosi, Alameda, CA (US);
Assignee:
Avigen, Inc., Alameda, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 5/10 ; C07H 2/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 5/10 ; C07H 2/100 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides methods and compositions for producing high titer preparations of recombinant AAV (“rAAV”) virions. The compositions of the present invention include AAV helper function systems and host cells. The present invention also includes methods of using AAV helper function vectors that effect the production of only small amounts of the long forms of Rep protein, and rAAV virions produced by such methods.