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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2003
Hiroaki Kinoh, Ibaraki, JP;
Makoto Inoue, Ibaraki, JP;
Yasuji Ueda, Ibaraki, JP;
Akihiro Iida, Ibaraki, JP;
Mamoru Hasegawa, Ibaraki, JP;
Masanori Kobayashi, Shiga, JP;
Hiroaki Kinoh, Ibaraki, JP;
Makoto Inoue, Ibaraki, JP;
Yasuji Ueda, Ibaraki, JP;
Akihiro Iida, Ibaraki, JP;
Mamoru Hasegawa, Ibaraki, JP;
Masanori Kobayashi, Shiga, JP;
DNAVEC Research Inc., Ibaraki, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides cell fusogenic vectors having replicative ability, whose protease-dependent tropism has been modified. M gene-deficient viral vectors encoding modified F proteins, in which the cleavage site of the F protein ofis modified to be cleaved by different proteases, were produced. In cells transfected with these vectors, the genomic RNA present in the vectors is replicated, and cell fusogenic infection spreads to neighboring cells depending on the presence of other proteases; however, no viral particles are released. The vectors of this invention, encoding the F proteins which are cleaved by proteases whose activity is enhanced in cancer, show cancer growth suppressive effect in vivo.