The study involves two GMOs: (i) A replication-incompetent adenovirus (GAd20 with deletions of the viral E1, E3 and E4 coding regions) isolated from a gorilla and encoding the FSP neoantigens; (ii) an attenuated, replication-defective orthopoxvirus (Modified Vaccinia virus Ankara), encoding for the same neoantigens.
The study involves two GMOs: (i) A replication-incompetent adenovirus (GAd20 with deletions of the viral E1, E3 and E4 coding regions) isolated from a gorilla and encoding the PEV neoantigens gene; (ii) an attenuated, replication-defective orthopoxvirus (Modified Vaccinia virus Ankara), encoding for the neoantigens gene.
The nOPV2 candidate strains include different combinations of 5 distinct modified regions of the Sabin-2 genome, including changes to the RNA sequence in the 5’ untranslated region of polio genome (5’ UTR), the capsid protein coding region (P1), the non-structural protein 2C, and the polymerase 3D. Of these modifications, only the changes to polymerase 3D result in a change in the amino acid sequence. The rest of the modifications aim to stabilize the genetic sequence against reversion in either the 5’ UTR or capsid regions.
Only notified under the "contained use" procedure. Dossier submitted on 24/04/2018.
