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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 22, 1995
Luc Montagnier, Le Plessis Robinson, FR;
Denise Guetard, Paris, FR;
Marc Alizon, Paris, FR;
François Clavel, Paris, FR;
Mireille Guyader, Paris, FR;
Pierre Sonigo, Paris, FR;
Françoise Brun-Vezinet, Paris, FR;
Institut Pasteur, , FR;
Abstract
The present invention is directed toward a novel human retrovirus isolated from West African AIDS patients. This virus was originally designated lymphadenopathy associated virus (LAV) type II and subsequently renamed the human immunodeficiency virus type 2, or HIV-2. This virus is genotypically and phenotypically distinct from both human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV). A recombinant &lgr; phage library was prepared by subjecting HIV-2-infected CEM genomic DNA to digestion with Sau3AI. The library was screened with an HIV-2-specific cDNA probe and molecular clones of the virus were obtained. Restriction maps and the nucleotide sequences of these clones were ascertained. These nucleic acids should prove useful, inter alia, as probes for the detection of HIV-2 in biological samples and for the expression of HIV-2 gene products.