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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2000
Phillip W. Berman, Burlingame, CA (US);
Daniel J. Capon, San Mateo, CA (US);
Laurence A. Lasky, San Francisco, CA (US);
Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Diagnostic product and vaccine for Acquired Immuno-deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and methods for making and using same, wherein viral polypeptide sequences from an AIDS associated retrovirus are expressed directly or as a fusion polypeptide in a prokaryotic or mammalian cell expression host to produce a diagnostic product which specifically binds complementary antibody produced by individuals afflicted with AIDS or a vaccine against AIDS which confers resistance to infection by AIDS associated retrovirus. The reverse transcriptase of an AIDS associated retrovirus is used separately or in a whole cell assay to identify compounds which selectively inhibit retroviral reverse transcriptase.