Research Projects

Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2018

Development of next generation of baculovirus vectors with tissue specific gene transduction

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Grant number
15K07926
Japan Grant Number (JGN)
JP15K07926
Grant amount
(Total)
4,810,000 Japanese Yen
(Direct funding)
3,700,000 Japanese Yen
(Indirect funding)
1,110,000 Japanese Yen

In this research, budded recombinant baculovirus vectors (BVs) have been developed because BVs have many advantages for tissue targeting gene delivery vectors.It is easily possible to display exogenous proteins on the surface of BV virion. CSP and TRAP, malaria sporozoite surface proteins have highly selective affinity to hepatocytes. BVs expressing CSP or TRAP molecule on the virion surface have been constructed and they were shown to greatly increase transduction efficacy to human hepatoma cell line (HepG2 et al.) and human primary hepatocytes (PXB cells). Furthermore, to overcome the vulnerability to serum complement system, fusion molecules of complement regulatory proteins were displayed to BV virion surfaces. These BVs were shown to greatly increase resistance against complement attack.

Link information
URL
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/file/KAKENHI-PROJECT-15K07926/15K07926seika.pdf
KAKEN
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-15K07926
ID information
  • Grant number : 15K07926
  • Japan Grant Number (JGN) : JP15K07926

List of results of the research project

Papers

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