Regulated antigen delivery system (RADS)

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7341860
APP PUB NO 20050106176A1
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10924574

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We describe a regulated antigen delivery system (RADS) that has (a) a vector that includes (1) a gene encoding a desired gene product operably linked to a control sequence, (2) an origin of replication conferring vector replication using DNA polymerase III, and (3) an origin of replication conferring vector replication using DNA polymerase I, where the second origin of replication is operably linked to a control sequence that is repressible by a repressor. The RADS microorganism also has a gene encoding a repressor, operably linked to an activatible control sequence. The RADS described provide high levels of the desired gene product after repression of the high copy number origin of replication is lifted. The RADS are particularly useful as live bacterial vaccines. Also described is a delayed RADS system, in which there is a delay before the high copy number origin is expressed after the repression is lifted. The delayed RADS is also particularly useful for live bacterial vaccines. Also described are several control elements useful for these systems, as well as methods for providing immunity to a pathogen in a vertebrate immunized with the RADS microorganisms.

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WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYONE BOOKINGS DRIVE ST LOUIS MO 63130

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Curtiss, III Roy St. Louis, MO 30 1368
Tinge, Steven A Belleville, IL 5 147

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