120 results about "Viral procapsid" patented technology

A fusion capsid protein comprising a plant virus capsid protein fused to an antigenic polypeptide is used as a molecule for presentation of that polypeptide to the immune system of an animal such as a human. The plant virus capsid protein is that of an alfalfa mosaic virus (AlMV) or ilarvirus.

The present invention relates to a synthetic plant-optimized nucleic acid molecule having a Norwalk virus capsid protein coding nucleotide sequence, and nucleic acid constructs, host cells, expression systems, and plants having the plant-optimized Norwalk virus nucleic acid molecule. The present invention also relates to a method of producing Norwalk virus capsid protein virus-like particles in a transgenic plant or transgenic plant seed transformed with a plant-optimized nucleic acid molecule encoding Norwalk virus capsid protein. The plant or a component thereof can be administered to a subject under conditions effective to immunize the subject against disease resulting from infection by a Norovirus, including Norwalk virus. An oral vaccine for immunization of a subject against Norwalk virus infection is also disclosed.

The present invention provides duplexed parvovirus vector genomes that are capable under appropriate conditions of forming a double-stranded molecule by intrastrand base-pairing. Also provided are duplexed parvovirus particles comprising the vector genome. Further disclosed are templates and methods for producing the duplexed vector genomes and duplexed parvovirus particles of the invention. Methods of administering these reagents to a cell or subject are also described. Preferably, the parvovirus capsid is an AAV capsid. It is further preferred that the vector genome comprises AAV terminal repeat sequences.

An altered capsid protein of a primate-infective papovavirus in which a foreign peptide sandwiched by 1 to several glycine residues at each end is inserted into at least one of the DE-loop or the HI-loop of the capsid protein of the primate-infective papovavirus, and a virus-like particle formed from the altered capsid protein.

The present invention relates to the production of adeno-associated viral vectors in insect cells. The insect cells therefore comprise a first nucleotide sequence encoding the adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsid proteins, whereby the initiation codon for translation of the AAV VP1 capsid protein is a non-ATG, suboptimal initiation codon. The insect cell further comprises a second nucleotide sequence comprising at least one AAV inverted terminal repeat (ITR) nucleotide sequence; a third nucleotide sequence comprising a Rep52 or a Rep40 coding sequence operably linked to expression control sequences for expression in an insect cell; and, a fourth nucleotide sequence comprising a Rep78 or a Rep68 coding sequence operably linked to expression control sequences for expression in an insect cell. The invention further relates to adeno-associated viral vectors with an altered ratio of the viral capsid proteins that provides improved infectivity of the viral particles.

The invention belongs to the technical field of biology, and relates to a method for preparing virus analogs of nervous necrosis viruses. The method comprises the following steps of: (1) performing expression of the virus analogs of the nervous necrosis viruses on escherichia coli of pQE30 plasmid vectors coded with nervous necrosis virus capsid protein genes under the pronucleus condition, wherein the expression is performed under the following conditions of: inoculating 1 mass percent of escherichia coli solution of which OD600 is equal to 1.5 into a culture medium, culturing the escherichia coli at 37 DEG C under 250rpm till the OD600 is 0.3 to 0.5, adding isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactoside into the escherichia coli solution till the final concentration of the isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactoside is 900muM, transferring the solution, and continuously culturing the escherichia coli for 3 to 4 hours at the temperature of between 25 and 30 DEG C at the rotational speed of 200rpm to finish the expression; and (2) after the expression is finished, breaking, separating and purifying the strains to obtain the virus analogs of the nervous necrosis viruses, wherein the plasmid coded genes also can be nervous necrosis virus capsid protein genes containing histidine tags, and the expression product of the genes can be purified by affinity chromatography. The method provided by the invention can obtain high virus analog expression amount; and the chromatography and purification method is simple and convenient and has low costs in required apparatuses and reagents.