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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2005
Applicants:
Judy Lieberman, Brookline, MA (US);
Erwei Song, Guangzhou, CN;
Inventors:
Judy Lieberman, Brookline, MA (US);
Erwei Song, Guangzhou, CN;
Assignee:
Immune Disease Institute, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 48/00 (2006.01); C07H 21/02 (2006.01); C07H 21/04 (2006.01); C07K 16/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention provides a method of RNA interference, which comprises contacting the cell with a fusion protein-double stranded RNA complex, the complex comprising the double stranded RNA segment containing a double stranded RNA of interest and a fusion protein, the fusion protein comprising (1) a targeting moiety, which will specifically binds to a site on a target cell, and (2) a binding moiety, which will bind to the double stranded RNA, wherein the double stranded RNA segment initiates RNA interference in the cell.