METHOD AND REAGENT FOR INHIBITING VIRAL REPLICATION

摘要

Enzymatic RNA molecules which specifically cleave a picornavirus RNA, an immunodeficiency virus RNA in a gene required for viral replication, e.g., the vif, nef, tat or rev gene regions, RNA of a hepatitis virus, T-cell leukemia virus RNA, RNA of a hepatitis C virus, mRNA or rhRNA of a cytomegalovirus, an influenza virus RNA, and a herpes simplex virus mRNA molecule; and methods and reagents useful in selection and optimization of ribozymes. In particular, the enzymatic RNA molecule is formed in a hammerhead motif, in the motif of a hairpin, hepatitis delta virus, group I intron or RNaseP-like RNA. The figure is a diagrammatic representation of an enzymatic RNA molecule in the hammerhead motif.