Chimeric vectors comprising a phage packaging site and a portion derived from the genome of a eukaryotic virus
AssigneeGenVec, Inc.
InventorsDuncan L. McVey, Douglas E. Brough, Mohammed Zuber, Imre Kovesdi
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Abstract
The present invention provides an improved method of making eukaryotic gene transfer vectors comprising homologous recombining lambdid vectors with a second DNA in a bacterium to generate novel recombinant eukaryotic viral gene transfer vectors as well as a novel lambdid vector used in the inventive method and an inventive system comprising the novel lambdid vector.
Claims12
A method of making a DNA comprising a recombinant eukaryotic viral amplicon, the method comprising:
- (a) transducing a bacterial cell with a first DNA, wherein the first DNA comprises a DNA vector comprising (i) a portion of eukaryotic viral genome comprising an ITR, (ii) a regulatable anti-selection gene, (iii) a phage packaging site, and (iv) a deficient or conditionally-deficient lambdoid origin of replication, and a second DNA, which comprises a DNA segment with high homology to a DNA segment of the first DNA, and
- (b) transducing the bacterial cell with a defective phage or a non-defective phage, or activating a defective or non-defective lysogen within the cell, such that the deficient or conditionally deficient lambdoid origin of replication is operable and the first DNA and the second DNA undergo a double homologous recombination event to form a DNA comprising a recombinant eukaryotic viral amplicon.
A method of making a desired vector comprising a desired eukaryotic viral amplicon, the method comprising:
- (i) transforming a first bacterial cell under conditions that are permissive of homologous recombination with a first DNA, which comprises (a) a phage packaging site, (b) a conditionally inoperative lambdoid origin of replication, (c) an independent positive selection gene, and (d) a eukaryotic viral DNA with an anti-selective gene embedded in the eukaryotic viral DNA, and a second DNA, which comprises two DNA sequences with high homology to the first DNA flanking a DNA sequence of interest, wherein (d) does not comprise (a),
- (ii) expressing in the first bacterial cell a source of phage gene functions sufficient to provide for the operation of the conditionally deficient lambdoid origin of replication and sufficient to encapsidate vectors comprising a suitable length of DNA and the phage packaging site, wherein the source is an activated lysogen or a superinfected phage, to obtain a mixed population of encapsidated vectors, the mixed population comprising a desired lambdid vector that comprises a desired eukaryotic viral amplicon,
- (iii) obtaining a phage-like lysate of the mixed population of encapsidated vectors,
- (iv) transducing a second bacterial cell with the phage-like lysate, and
- (v) maintaining the second bacteria cell under conditions selective for the first independent positive selection gene and anti-selective for the superinfected phage and the anti-selective gene,
- to isolate a colony comprising a desired vector comprising a desired eukaryotic viral amplicon.
A recombination-deficient bacterial cell comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding T7 polymerase integrated into the bacterial genome.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.