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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2016
Applicant:
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, CH;
Inventors:
David Balya, Basel, CH;
Volker Busskamp, Loerrach, DE;
Pamela Lagali, Basel, CH;
Botond Roska, Oberwil, CH;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 48/00 (2006.01); C12N 15/12 (2006.01); C07H 21/00 (2006.01); A61K 38/16 (2006.01); C07K 14/215 (2006.01); A61K 38/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 38/164 (2013.01); A61K 48/005 (2013.01); A61K 48/0075 (2013.01); C07K 14/215 (2013.01); A61K 38/00 (2013.01); C12N 2799/025 (2013.01); C12N 2830/008 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present inventions relates to the use of an isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence coding for a hyperpolarizing light-gated ion channel or pump gene from an archeon or for a light-active fragment of said gene, or the nucleotide sequence complementary to said nucleotide sequence, for treating or ameliorating blindness. The light-gated ion channel or pump gene can be a halorhodopsin gene.