The present invention provides a fusion polypeptide that induces a humoral immune response and a cellular immune response to a virus, containing antigens or fragments thereof of the following (a) and (b), and having an oligomerization activity: (a) an antigen of the virus or a fragment thereof containing a B cell epitope conserved among subtypes of the virus; and (b) an antigen of the virus or a fragment thereof containing a T cell epitope conserved among subtypes of the virus (wherein the antigen(s) or the fragment(s) thereof of (a) and/or (b) have an oligomerization activity, or the fusion polypeptide further contains (c) a polypeptide having an oligomerization activity in addition to the antigens or the fragments thereof (a) and (b)).

Provided herein are variant adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsid proteins having one or more modifications in amino acid sequence relative to a parental AAV capsid protein, which, when present in an AAV virion, confer increased infectivity of one or more types of retinal cells as compared to the infectivity of the retinal cells by an AAV virion comprising the unmodified parental AAV capsid protein. Also provided are recombinant AAV virions and pharmaceutical compositions thereof comprising a variant AAV capsid protein as described herein, methods of making these rAAV capsid proteins and virions, and methods for using these rAAV capsid proteins and virions in research and clinical practice, for example in, e.g., the delivery of nucleic acid sequences to one or more ceils of the retina for the treatment of retinal disorders and diseases.

The invention relates to a recombinant adenovirus comprising an albumin-binding moiety on the outer surface of the adenoviral hexon protein, pharmaceutical compositions containing it and its medical use. Particularly, the invention relates to an oncolytic adenovirus comprising a sequence encoding an albumin-binding moiety inserted in the hypervariable region 1 (HVR1) of the hexon protein coding sequence and its use in the prevention and/or treatment of cancer.

Provided are compositions comprising an activatable proprotein comprising a first IL-15 or a variant thereof and a second IL-15Rα or variant thereof fused to a masking moiety comprising an antibody Fc region, and methods of using the same for cancer immunotherapy and other therapies.

Described herein are antibodies, immunogenic fragments and compositions thereof targeting the killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptor protein KIR3DL3, as well as methods of using the same for the treatment of human diseases including cancer. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to an antibody or an immunogenic fragment thereof that specifically binds to KIR3DL3 protein, wherein the antibody or the immunogenic fragment thereof specifically binds to a KIR3DL3 epitope comprising the whole extracellular domain or a portion thereof.

The present invention includes a method of increasing, stimulating, inducing, promoting, enhancing or maintaining the genomic stability of a cell of a subject, the method comprising decreasing, reducing, inhibiting, suppressing, limiting or controlling loss of methylation of heterochromatin in the cell and/or modulating heterochromatin dysfunction in a cell of a subject, the method comprising activating, eliciting, stimulate ng, inducing, promoting, increasing or enhancing expression or activity in the cell of one or more DNA methyltransferase (DNMT).

The present invention relates to genes coding for nucleases, processes for characterizing the nucleases, cells comprising the nucleases, and methods of using the nucleases.

A pharmaceutical composition is described, which comprises proteins and an immune checkpoint inhibitor, wherein the proteins comprise a fusion protein, and the fusion protein comprises cytokines IL12, IL2, and GMCSF. A reagent kit is also described, which comprises the pharmaceutical composition. The pharmaceutical composition or the reagent kit may be used in preparing a medicament for treating a tumor.

The present disclosure relates to a fusion protein of Z-domain and calsequestrin having improved reactivity, stability, and antibody recovery, and a method of isolating and purifying antibodies using the same. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to: a nucleic acid encoding a fusion protein of Z-domain and calsequestrin having improved reactivity, stability, and antibody recovery; a recombinant expression vector including the nucleic acid; a host cell transformed with the recombinant expression vector; and a method of isolating and purifying antibodies by using the fusion protein of Z-domain and calsequestrin having improved reactivity, stability, antibody recovery, and purity.

This disclosure relates to modified immunoglobulins.