Provided herein are multivalent CD20-binding molecules, and compositions thereof, for use in selective killing of specific cell types and/or as therapeutics for the treatment of a variety of diseases, including cancer, tumors, and immune disorders. Certain multivalent CD20-binding molecules can be used to deliver agents into CD20-expressing cells, collecting diagnostic information, and/or monitoring the treatment of diseases, such as cancers, tumors, and immune disorders.

The present invention relates to a tumor vascular disrupting agent polypeptide, gene, expression vector, and use thereof. The tumor vascular disrupting agent polypeptide has the amino acid sequence as shown by SEQ ID NO: 1. The polypeptide comprises a truncated tissue factor (tTF) and a tumor-targeting molecule (pHLIP); the factor and the molecule are connected by 5 amino acids, thereby ensuring the function of each not being affected by the other; the fusion protein can be positioned to the surface of a tumor vascular endothelial cell by means of the pHLIP, and provides the blood coagulation feature of the tTF in a tumor vessel and forms a thrombus, thereby disrupting the blood supply to the tumor area and treating tumor. The polypeptide of the present invention is significant to the treatment of tumor, and can be used in medicines for treating tumors.

Methods, systems, compositions and strategies for the delivery of WW domain-containing fusion proteins into cells in vivo, ex vivo, or in vitro via ARMMs are provided. Methods, systems, compositions and strategies for the delivery of Cas9 proteins and/or Cas9 variants into cells in vivo, ex vivo, or in vitro via fusion to ARMM associated proteins (e.g., ARRDC1 or TSG101) are also provided.

Provided herein are immunomodulatory proteins comprising ICOSL variants and nucleic acids encoding such proteins. The immunomodulatory proteins provide therapeutic utility for a variety of immunological and oncological conditions. Compositions and methods for making and using such proteins are provided.

The present invention provides new compositions and methods for preventing and treating pathogen infection. In particular, the present invention provides compounds having an anchoring domain that anchors the compound to the surface of a target cell, and a therapeutic domain that can act extracellularly to prevent infection of a target cell by a pathogen, such as a virus. The present invention also comprises therapeutic compositions having sialidase activity, including protein-based compounds having sialidase catalytic domains. Compounds of the invention can be used for treating or preventing pathogen infection, and for treating and reducing allergic and inflammatory responses. The invention also provides compositions and methods for enhancing transduction of target cells by recombinant viruses. Such compositions and methods can be used in gene therapy.

Disclosed herein is a cell death-inducing peptide that rapidly acts. The peptide is derived from Noxa protein and comprises 16 amino acid residues including MTD. The peptide is designated extended MTD (eMTD) because it contains the 10-mer MTD. eMTD rapidly exhibits potent necrotic cell death in various cell lines and, as such, can be applied to the treatment of various diseases including cancer when used in conjugation with peptides or materials for targeting specific cells.

Microbial type rhodopsins, such as the light-gated cation-selective membrane channel, channelrhodopsin-2 (Chop2/ChR2) or the ion pump halorhodopsin (HaloR) are expressed in retinal ganglion cells upon transduction using recombinant AAV vectors. Selective targeting of these transgenes for expression in discrete subcellular regions or sites is achieved by including a sorting motif in the vector that can target either the central area or surround (off-center) area of these cells. Nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding such rhodopsins and sorting motifs and their use in methods of differential expression of the transgene are disclosed. These compositions and methods provide significant improvements for restoring visual perception and various aspects of vision, particular in patients with retinal disease.

This invention discloses a method of increasing production of virus-like particles comprising expressing an avian influenza matrix protein. The invention also comprises methods of making and using said VLPs.

This disclosure provides a bispecific ligand directed toxin (BLT) that includes a diphtheria toxin (DT) molecule that has been mutated to create a DT molecule that induces less of an immune response than native diphtheria toxin. The deimmunized DT molecule is fused with targeting ligands to create a fusion protein that can selectively deliver the deimmunized DT to target cells to kill the target cells.

In some aspects, the present disclosure provides compositions and methods for treating disease, e.g., inflammatory disease. Compositions herein comprise one or more polypeptide fragments of proopiomelanocortin or variants thereof. The one of more polypeptide fragments of proopiomelanocortin or variants thereof may be linked by a linker, e.g., a peptide linker, to form a fusion polypeptide.