Transgenomic viruses

US6238858A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services · US

Inventors

• William J. Ramsey · Ames, US
• R. Michael Blaese · Rockville, US
• Kleanthis Xanthopoulos · Village of La Jolla, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 10, 1998
• Grant date: May 29, 2001
• Expiry date: Apr 10, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12N2840/203
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention provides chimeric primary viruses, which are capable of producing secondary viruses in a producer host cell, and methods of making the same.