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Polynucleotide Fragments of an Infectious Human Endogenous Retrovirus

a technology polynucleotide fragment, which is applied in the field can solve the problems that the infection of human endogenous retrovirus cannot be isolated or detected so far, and achieve the effect of improving antisense agent and greater resistance to enzymatic degradation

Inactive Publication Date: 2008-01-10
BAXTER HEALTHCARE SA
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[0036] Sequences which differ from a given sequence due to the degeneration of the genetic code can be defined by any person skilled in the art. This can be carried out electronically without undue burden.
[0144] According to a further embodiment of the present invention a sun cream is provided which comprises a polynucleotide as defined above according to the present invention, an antibody, an antibody fragment as defined above and a PNA molecule as defined above, respectively, and at least one UV-protection substance. Therefore, applying a sun cream with these substances will prevent or inhibit the production of or infection by infectious HERV according to the present invention.

Problems solved by technology

This is particularly surprising due to the fact that human endogenous retroviruses have been known and described for more than 30 years, however, even though many groups have been carrying out research in this field over decades, infectious human endogenous retroviruses could not be isolated or detected so far.

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Human Melanoma Cells Contain RT Activity in their Supernatants

[0157] To detect extracellular virions, supernatants from the melanoma cell lines SKMel-28, SKMel-1, 518A2 were analyzed, as well as primary melanoma cells for pelletable RT. Supernatants from cultured human neonatal melanocytes (NHEM) served as controls. Cell-free supernatants from approximately 106 cells were concentrated by centrifugation. The RT activity of the resulting pellets was analyzed by F-PERT assay.

[0158] Supernatants from melanoma cell lines, and normal human melanocytes were centrifuged at 3000×g at 4° C. and sterile-filtered through a 0.22 μm low-protein membrane (Nunc) to remove cells and cellular debris. The clarified supernatants were centrifuged for 20 min at 250000×g at 4° C. in a Beckman SW50.1 rotor. Pellets were rinsed with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) and centrifuged for 15 min at 250000×g and resuspended. The resulting particle suspensions were used as an enzyme source for RT assays.

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Human Melanoma Cell Derived Particles Package Sequences with High Homology to HERV-K

[0161] Retroviral pol genes are generally the most conserved sequences among retroviruses. In an attempt to analyze the particle preparations on a molecular level, a sequence was amplified by using degenerate primers corresponding to conserved sequences of the pol gene. Particle preparations of the melanoma cell line 518A2 and SK-Mel28 were used for RT-PCR analysis. Particles were treated with DNase, to remove contaminating traces of genomic DNA.

[0162] Oligonucleotide primers 3′ABDPOLS 5′dCATTCCTTGTGGTAAAACTTTCCA[T / C]TG 3′ (SEQ ID NO:57) and 5′ABDPOLAS 5′dCCCCTTGGAATACTCCTGTTTT[T / C]TG 3′ (SEQ ID NO:58) (Codon Genetic Systems, Austria), derived from conserved regions within the retroviral reverse transcriptase (RT), were adopted from Medstrand and Blomberg. In order to release viral RNA, the particle suspension was transferred to a 0.5 ml polypropylene microcentrifuge tube (Sorensen Inc., USA). Then...

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Human Melanoma Derived Particles Contain Mature gag and env Proteins

[0165] Particles derived from SK-Mel28 melanoma cells were purified on iodixanol-cushions and analyzed for the presence of HERV-K-specific env and gag proteins in Western blots.

[0166] Iodixanol-cushion purified particles from SK-Mel28 supernatants were pelleted, resuspended in PBS and analyzed. The amount of soluble proteins was quantified by means of a modified Bradford analysis (Bio-rad, Richmond Calif.). 5 μg of total protein was applied per lane and separated by SDS-PAGE (10%). Proteins were transferred to PVDF membranes (Millipore, Bedford, Mass.) by Western blotting, and generated blots were incubated with the gag- and env-specific antisera. The membranes were washed twice with blocking solution and HERV-K-specific proteins were detected with an alkaline-phosphatase-conjugated second-step antibody.

[0167] The envelope (env) gene of retroviruses displays an ORF for the surface protein (SU) and a membrane span...

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Abstract

Nucleotide sequences and fragments which code for a human endogenous retrovirus which is infectious. "Fragments" according to the present invention relate also to specific fragments of the sequences inserted into the vector pCR4-Topo and deposited as MERV-env, MERV-gag, MERV-prt and MERV-pol as mentioned above. Additionally, methods of using such sequences, polypeptides encoded by such sequences, antibodies directs against such sequences, and methods and compositions relating to the same are all contemplated.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application is a divisional of co-pending U.S. application Ser. No. 10 / 490,920 filed 26 Mar. 2004, which is a national phase application under 35 U.S.C. § 371 of International Application No. PCT / EP02 / 10899 filed 27 Sep. 2002, which claims priority to Austrian Application No. A 1539 / 2001 filed 27 Sep. 2001, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] 1. Field of the Invention [0003] The present invention relates to human endogenous retroviruses, fragments thereof, a biologically functional vector comprising sequences of said retrovirus. [0004] 2. Description of Related Art [0005] Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are integral parts in the genomes of many, if not of all, species. ERVs most probably resulted from infection of germ line cells with exogenous retroviruses and subsequent fixation of their genetic information in the host genome. [0006] Many types of human en...

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IPC IPC(8): A61K48/00A61K35/76A61K39/21C07K16/08A61K39/395A61K38/00A61K39/00C07K14/15C12N7/00C12N15/48G01N33/569G01N33/574
CPCA61K38/00A61K39/00A61K2039/5254C07K14/005G01N2333/15C12N2740/10021C12N2740/10022G01N33/56983G01N33/5743C12N7/00
Inventor WOLFF, KLAUSPEHAMBERGER, HUBERTGRASSAUER, ANDREASMUSTER, THOMAS
Owner BAXTER HEALTHCARE SA
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