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Looking for info on "Satellite RNA"

Eleusis eleusis at netcom.com
Sun Feb 11 17:04:30 EST 1996


In article <4fkr40$amk_001 at netcom.com>, eleusis at netcom.com (Eleusis) wrote:
>Greetings...
>
>I recently attended a lecture at the University of South Florida 
concerning 
>novel prophylactic methods against viral infectious diseases. The method 
>involved splicing the vDNA instructions for coding the protein coat of the 
>Rabies virus. When an animal eats the plant, immunity is presumably 
>conferred. 

Sorry... I left out a part of a sentence up there. It should read something 
like this:

vDNA for the Rabies virus protein coat is spliced into a plant's DNA, and 
so when the plant is eaten by an animal, immunity to the Rabies antigen is 
conferred.

Sorry for the confusion.


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