Inventors:
Thomas J. Chambers - St. Louis MO
Thomas P. Monath - Harvard MA
Farshad Guirakhoo - Melrose MA
Assignee:
Acambis, Inc. - Cambridge MA
St. Louis University - St. Louis MO
International Classification:
C12N 701
US Classification:
4352351, 4352301, 435 691, 435 693, 4352361, 424 932, 4242181, 4241991, 4242041, 4242021, 4241921
Abstract:
A chimeric live, infectious, attenuated virus containing a yellow fever virus, in which the nucleotide sequence for a prM-E protein is either deleted, truncated, or mutated, so that functional prM-E protein is not expressed, and integrated into the genome of the yellow fever virus, a nucleotide sequence encoding a prM-E protein of a second, different flavivirus, so that the prM-E protein of the second flavivirus is expressed.