IP Library Granted Patent US 12667608
Granted Patent B2
US 12667608 · App. 17/886,480 · Granted Jun 30, 2026

Construction method of recombinant drug-resistant

Inventors: Tianyu Zhang (Guangzhou, CN); Bangxing Wang (Guangzhou, CN); Julius Ndirangu Mugweru (Guangzhou, CN); Gift Chiwala (Guangzhou, CN); Zhiyong Liu (Guangzhou, CN)
Assignee: Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences
A61K39/04A61P31/06C12N15/74A61K2039/52
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Patent No.
US 12667608
App. No.
17/886,480
Granted
Jun 30, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed are a construction method of a recombinant drug-resistant Mycobacterium bovis ( M. bovis ) Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) strain and a pharmaceutical composition for treating tuberculosis (TB). The construction method includes: using BCG as an original bacterial strain to construct a drug-resistant BCG strain resistant to at least one selected from the group consisting of STR, LFX, EMB, PRO, PAS, and AMK; and further inserting sequence fragments that can express related antigens Ag85b and Rv2628 causing an immune response into a genome of the strain to construct a recombinant drug-resistant BCG strain. The recombinant drug-resistant BCG strain can compete with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) for growth, thereby accelerating the death of Mtb. When used in combination with a drug for treating TB, the recombinant drug-resistant BCG strain can further enhance a therapeutic effect for Mtb, and can also avoid re-infection of a patient.

Claims (7)

1 . A drug-resistant Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) strain, wherein the drug-resistant BCG strain is a mutant strain of Mycobacterium bovis ( M. bovis ) BCG, and the drug-resistant BCG strain comprises the following gene mutations: 660G>A of embB gene, 417A>G or 216C>T of embC gene, 145G>A or 228T>C or 447A>C or 483C>T of Rv3806c gene, 128G>A of rpsL gene, 192delG of rrs gene, 448C>A of eis gene, 262G>A or 263G>A of gyrA gene, and 63T>C of ethA gene.

2 . The drug-resistant BCG strain according to claim 1 , wherein the drug-resistant BCG strain is named as drug-resistant BCG and is deposited in the Guangdong Microbial Culture Collection Center (GDMCC) located at Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, No. 100 Xianlie Middle Road Guangzhou, China, with an accession number of GDMCC 60969.

3 . A construction method of a recombinant drug-resistant BCG strain, comprising transforming a plasmid carrying sequences of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb)-identifying protein-associated genes into the drug-resistant BCG strain according to claim 1 , wherein the Mtb-identifying protein-associated genes are genes Ag85b and Rv2628.

4 . A construction method of a recombinant drug-resistant BCG strain, comprising transforming a plasmid carrying sequences of Mtb-identifying protein-associated genes into the drug-resistant BCG strain according to claim 2 , wherein the Mtb-identifying protein-associated genes are genes Ag85b and Rv2628.

5 . A recombinant drug-resistant BCG strain obtained by the construction method according to claim 4 .

6 . A pharmaceutical composition for treating TB, comprising the recombinant drug-resistant BCG strain according to claim 5 .

7 . The pharmaceutical composition according to claim 6 , further comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of ethambutol (EMB), levofloxacin (LFX), prothionamide (PRO), and amikacin (AMK).