Engineered parasites for delivering protein to the central nervous system (cns)
AssigneesRamot at Tel-Aviv University Ltd., The University Court of the University of Glasgow
InventorsOded RECHAVI, Shahar BRACHA, Lilach SHEINER
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Abstract
Provided are nucleic acid constructs, Toxoplasma comprising same, pharmaceutical compositions comprising same and methods using same for delivering a protein-of-interest to a tissue-of-interest of a subject, such as the CNS and further treating a pathology which is treatable by administration of a therapeutic polypeptide in a central nervous system of the subject.
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A method of transcriptional modulation or genome editing in a host cell, comprising contacting the host cell with a Toxoplasma transformed with a nucleic acid construct comprising a heterologous polynucleotide comprising a first nucleic acid sequence encoding a Toxoplasma secreted protein in frame fused upstream to a second nucleic acid sequence encoding a pharmaceutical agent for transcriptional modulation or genome editing, wherein said heterologous polynucleotide is operably linked to a promoter for directing transcription of said heterologous polynucleotide in a Toxoplasma, wherein said promoter is selected from the group consisting of:
- a constitutive promoter, an inducible promoter, a latent period-specific promoter, and a Toxoplasma endogenous promoter with the proviso that said promoter is not a Toxofilin promoter, wherein said toxoplasma secreted protein is secreted to the host cell.
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