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US 12,385,014 · App. 16/321,634 · Granted Aug 12, 2025

Baculovirus expression system

Inventors: Martine Cerutti (Saint Christol les Ales, FR); Sylvie Juliant (Saint Christol les Ales, FR); Sylvie Thery (Saint Martin de Valgalgues, FR)
Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DEL LA RECHERCH SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS); INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMQIUE
C12N7/00C12N15/86C12N15/902C12N2710/14151
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Patent No.
US 12,385,014
App. No.
16/321,634
Granted
Aug 12, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention relates to a method for producing a recombinant baculovirus comprising n exogenous genes in an insect cell, by means of homologous recombination of a replication-deficient baculovirus genome and n transfer vectors, each comprising one of the n exogenous genes, n being an integer at least equal to 2.

Claims (17)

1. A process for preparing, in an insect cell, a recombinant baculovirus comprising n exogenous gene expression cassettes each to be expressed at a different locus, the process comprising introducing a replication-deficient recombinant baculovirus genome and n transfer vectors into an insect cell and thereby allowing multiple homologous recombination between:

a) a replication-deficient baculovirus genome in which n genes essential for viral replication are distributed in n different loci of the viral DNA and are all non-functional, wherein the n non-functional genes essential for viral replication are each adjacent to a different gene non-essential for viral replication; and

b) n transfer vectors each restoring the function of only one of the n non-functional genes essential for viral replication and each comprising:

i) a nucleotide sequence that restores the function of only one of the n non-functional genes essential for viral replication, and

ii) only one of the n exogenous gene expression cassettes, each of the n expression cassettes to be expressed at a different locus,

the set of nucleotide sequences i) of the n transfer vectors being able to restore replication of the replication-deficient baculovirus genome;

wherein all n being the same and being an integer at least equal to 2, and

wherein the replication-deficient baculovirus genome and the n transfer vectors are all present in the same insect cell simultaneously, prior to the multiple homologous recombination with all n transfer vectors.

2. The process according to claim 1 , wherein the genes essential for viral replication are selected from 1629 (ORF9), Pk1 (ORF10), lef-1 (ORF14), ORF34, lef-11 (ORF37), p47 (ORF40), lef8 (ORF50), DNAJ domain (ORF51), ORF53, vp1054 (ORF54), Lef-9 (ORF62), DNA Pol (ORF65), lef-3 (ORF67), ORF73, ORF75, ORF81, p95 (ORF83), vp39 (ORF89), lef-4 (ORF90), p33 (ORF92), helicase (ORF95), vp80 (ORF104), ORF106-107, odv-ec43 (ORF109), gp64/67 (ORF128), ORF132, ORF133, odv-ec27 (ORF144), ORF146, ie1 (ORF147) and lef-2 (ORF6).

3. The process according to claim 1 , wherein the gene non-essential for viral replication is selected from Ph (ORF 8), ORF11, ORF13, egt (ORF15), v-ubiquitin (ORF35), 39K (ORF36), ORF38, p43 (ORF39), lef-12 (ORF41), pcna (ORF49), ORF52, ORF55, Fp (ORF61), ORF63, gp37 (ORF64), ORF68, ORF72, ORF74, ORF82, cg30 (ORF88), ORF91, pif-4 (ORF96), he65 (ORF105), ORF108, ORF110, cathepsin (ORF127), p24 (ORF129), pp34 (ORF131), ORF134, ORF145, odv-e56 (ORF148) and ORF5.

4. The process according to claim 1 , wherein the n exogenous gene expression cassettes each recombine with a gene non-essential for viral replication adjacent to a non-functional gene essential for viral replication.

5. The process according to claim 1 , wherein the transfer vectors comprise, on either side of one of the n exogenous gene expression cassettes, flanking sequences homologous to the replication-deficient baculovirus genome.

6. The process according to claim 5 , wherein the flanking sequences have a length ranging from 10 bp to 10 kb.

7. The process according to claim 1 , wherein the insect cell is selected from the group consisting of: Sf9, Sf21, Tn5-b14, baculovirus AcMNPV-sensitive lepidopteran cell lines, and Sf21 lines.

8. The process according to claim 1 , wherein the replication-deficient baculovirus genome is obtained from a baculovirus genome selected among or derived from the group of the baculovirus genomes consisting of: BmNPV, AcMNPV, ApNPV, BsSNPV, CMNPV, EOSNPV, HaNPV, HzNPV, LdMNPV, MbMNPV, OpMNPV, SIMNPV, SeMNPV and TeNPV.

9. The process according to claim 1 , wherein n is an integer ranging from 2 to 30.

10. The process according to claim 1 , wherein the replication-deficient baculovirus genome is obtained from the baculovirus genome of AcMNPV.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 22, 2024
From: CERUTTI, MARTINE; JULIANT, SYLVIE; THERY, SYLVIE
To: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS); INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE
Reel/Frame 067499/0885 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 15, 2021
From: INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE (INRA)
To: INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE, L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT
Reel/Frame 056592/0475 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 27, 2019
From: CERUTTI, MARTINE; THERY, SYLVIE
To: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE; INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE
Reel/Frame 048455/0082 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 27, 2019
From: JULIANT, SYLVIE
To: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE; INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE
Reel/Frame 048455/0639 →
Priority Claims (1)
FR 1657611 · Aug 5, 2016 · national
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