Replicative oncolytic vaccinia virus derived from the Copenhagen strain, genetically modified by inactivation of its thymidine kinase (TK) and ribonucleotide reductase (RR) genes and by addition of genes encoding for the human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (hGM-CSF) cytokine and for a monoclonal antibody targeting the Cytotoxic T-Lymphocyte-Antigen 4 (CTLA-4).
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.
Engineered replicative oncolytic vaccinia virus (VV) derived from the Copenhagen strain. It contains three genetic modifications: 1) deletion of the viral thymidine kinase (TK) gene, 2) deletion of the viral ribonucleotide reductase (RR) gene and 3) insertion of the chimeric yeast FCU1 suicide gene in the TK locus.
NKG2D-chimeric antigen receptor, the truncated CD19 tag and the TIM8 molecule which interferes with the interaction between the natural TCR and endogenous CD3ζ
