Novel vaccine for preventing and treating Merkel cell carcinoma
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Applications(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- ADVACCINE SUZHOU BIOPHARMACEUTICALS CO LTD
- Publication Date
- 2021-08-20
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Abstract
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[0001] The invention belongs to the field of immunology and virology, in particular to a novel vaccine for preventing and treating Merkel cell carcinoma. Background technique
[0002] Merkel cell carcinoma polyomavirus (MCV) is currently the only polyomavirus that is clearly known to be directly associated with human cancer. Merkel cell carcinoma polyomavirus is a double-stranded non-enveloped DNA virus with an icosahedral spherical structure of about 45nm and a genome size of 5386bp, containing early coding regions, late coding regions and non-coding regulatory regions ( NCRR). The early genes of Merkel cell carcinoma polyomavirus mainly encode LT, ST, 57kT and ALTO (alternate frame of large T open reading frame), while the late genes mainly encode capsid proteins VP1 and VP2. VP1 has the function of initiating virus infection and often exists in the form of pentamers, and 72 pentamers can self-assemble into virus-like particles in eukaryotic systems. [...