Patent ID: 11926841
Assignee: nan
Field: Biotechnology (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C | IPC C

Claim 14:
15. A method for identifying a compound having antiviral activity against a virus, said virus selected from Adenoviridae and Herpesviridae, said method comprising the steps of:
(a) introducing into cells of a population of cells of claim 7, at least one nucleic acid encoding at least one helper polypeptide originating or derived from a virus selected from Adenoviridae and Herpesviridae;
(b) determining the amount of the product encoded by the transgenic coding sequence of (v) expressed by the cell population of step (a) after said introducing;
(c) contacting a population of cells of step (a) with the compound to be tested;
(d) determining the amount of the product encoded by said transgenic coding sequence of (v) expressed by the cell population of step (c) after said introducing; and
(e) comparing the amount of said product determined in step (b) with the amount of said product determined in step (d), wherein less product determined in step (d), relative to the product determined in step (b) indicates that the tested compound has antiviral activity.