Patent ID: 8835177
Filing Date: 2014-09-16
Classification: C07K,C12N

Abstract:
1. A method for increasing the efficiency transferring a gene into an adipocyte or a preadipocyte, the method comprising infecting an adipocyte or a preadipocyte with the proviso that the preadipocyte is a cell that is capable of directly differentiating into an adipocyte and is not a mesenchymal stem cell or stromal cell which retains abilities to differentiate into various cell types with a retrovirus vector having a foreign gene in the presence of a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence of: (a) SEQ ID NO:1 and SEQ ID NO:2; (b) SEQ ID NO:1 and SEQ ID NO:3; or (c) SEQ ID NO:1 and SEQ ID NO:2 and SEQ ID NO:3.