Protein vaccines against poxviruses
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- US · United States
- Patent Type
- Applications(United States)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- HOOPER JAY W
- Publication Date
- 2011-04-07
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable · inactive patent
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[0001] This application claims the benefit of priority from provisional application No. 60 / 722,082, filed Sep. 21, 2005, and is a divisional application of application Ser. No. 11 / 523,867, filed Sep. 20, 2006, and the entire contents of these applications are incorporated herein by reference.
[0002] Viruses in the family Poxyiridae, including vaccinia virus (VACV), variola virus (smallpox), and monkeybox virus, are characterized by a large linear double-stranded DNA genome (130-300 kb) packaged in a relatively large virion (.about.350.times.270 nm), and a cytoplasmic site of replication (reviewed by Moss, 1996, In “Fields Virology”, D. M. Knipe et al. Eds., vol. 3, pp 2637-2671. Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia). Assembly of VACV virions begins with condensation of dense granular material into membrane-wrapped particles called intracellular mature virions (IMV). Recent findings indicate the IMV are wrapped by a single membrane (Hollingshead et al., 1999, J. Virol. 73, 1503-1517) rather t...