Patents by Inventor Steven E. Poet

Steven E. Poet has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Delivery of nucleic acid into aquatic animals
    Patent number: 6462027
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for delivering a preselected polypeptide into an aquatic animal by contacting the aquatic animal with an aqueous medium containing an isolated non-infectious, non-integrating polynucleotide encoding an immunogen, wherein the polynucleotide is operably linked to a promoter that controls the expression of the polynucleotide in the aquatic animal, and wherein expression of the polypeptide stimulates a detectable biological response in the animal. Also disclosed are methods for delivering a desired polynucleotide into an aquatic animal comprising contacting the aquatic animal with an aquatic medium containing an isolated non-infectious, non-integrating polynucleotide, wherein the polynucleotide is substantially complementary to all or a portion of a messenger RNA (mRNA) encoding a preselected polypeptide, and wherein expression of the polypeptide stimulates or represses a detectable biological response in the animal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven E. Poet, Victoria Vaughn Burnley
  • Vaccines against circovirus infections
    Patent number: 6287856
    Abstract: Vaccine compositions which are protective against circovirus infections, including porcine circovirus and psittacine beak and feather disease virus, in animals, comprising a nucleic acid vector comprising a eukaryotic cis-acting transcription/translation regulatory sequence functionally linked to a nucleic acid encoding an animal circovirus polypeptide, wherein the nucleic acid lacks a viral origin of replication are disclosed. Nucleic acid vectors for the transient expression of one or more circovirus polypeptides in a eukaryotic cell comprising a nucleic acid vector comprising a eukaryotic cis-acting transcription/translation regulatory sequence functionally linked to the nucleic acids of the invention are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven E. Poet, Branson W. Ritchie, Frank D. Niagro, Phil D. Lukert
  • DELIVERY OF NUCLEIC ACID INTO AQUATIC ANIMALS
    Publication number: 20010006953
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for delivering a preselected polypeptide into an aquatic animal by contacting the aquatic animal with an aqueous medium containing an isolated non-infectious, non-integrating polynucleotide encoding an immunogen, wherein the polynucleotide is operably linked to a promoter that controls the expression of the polynucleotide in the aquatic animal, and wherein expression of the polypeptide stimulates a detectable biological response in the animal. Also disclosed are methods for delivering a desired polynucleotide into an aquatic animal comprising contacting the aquatic animal with an aquatic medium containing an isolated non-infectious, non-integrating polynucleotide, wherein the polynucleotide is substantially complementary to all or a portion of a messenger RNA (mRNA) encoding a preselected polypeptide, and wherein expression of the polypeptide stimulates or represses a detectable biological response in the animal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 1999
    Publication date: July 5, 2001
    Inventors: STEVEN E. POET, VICTORIA VAUGHN BURNLEY