US Patent:
20140140962, May 22, 2014
Inventors:
Isaac Sheridan Carrico - Stony Brook NY, US
Banerjee Partha - Baltimore MD, US
Patrick Hearing - St. James NY, US
Oum Yoon Hyeun - Atlanta GA, US
Assignee:
The Research Foundation of State University of New York - Albany NY
International Classification:
C12N 7/00
Abstract:
The invention provides compositions and methods for making and using modified viruses, including infectious viruses, having an external surface linked to at least one heterologous unnatural moiety that is exemplified by unnatural amino acid and unnatural saccharide. The unnatural moiety that is linked to the invention's modified viruses is optionally further linked to a molecule of interest (such as probe, cytotoxin, therapeutic molecule, antibody, affibody, epitope, etc. The invention's compositions and methods for use in, for example, diagnostic applications and therapeutic applications such as gene therapy, oncolytic therapy, and/or vaccine therapy.