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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 11, 1997
William W. Hall, New York, NY (US);
Hidehiro Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
The Rockefeller University, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to therapeutic protocols and pharmaceutical compositions designed to target topo I for the treatment of HIV infection. The invention relates to therapeutic modalities and pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of HIV-infection using human topo I and its interaction with HIV gag and RT as a target for intervention. The invention further relates to the use of human topo I to enhance the activity of RT. The present invention also relates to the expression of human topo I in transgenic animals, in particular mice, as a system to study the HIV life cycle and to screen agents for their ability to interfere with the HIV life cycle.