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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2002
Applicants:
Thomas E. Wagner, Greer, SC (US);
Xianzhang Yu, Greenville, SC (US);
Inventors:
Thomas E. Wagner, Greer, SC (US);
Xianzhang Yu, Greenville, SC (US);
Assignee:
GHC Research Development Corporation, Greenville, SC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 15/00 (2006.01); C12P 21/04 (2006.01); A01N 63/00 (2006.01); A01N 65/00 (2006.01); A01N 43/04 (2006.01); A61K 31/70 (2006.01); C07H 21/02 (2006.01); C12N 5/00 (2006.01); C12N 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a vector system which can be stably translocated from the cytoplasm of a cell to the nucleus where it is a stable nuclear episomal vector. A basic vector system according to the present invention is generally composed of nucleic acid encoding (a) a promoter functional both in cytoplasm and nucleus, operably linked to (b) a plasmid maintenance/translocation factor and (c) an origin of replication.