Recombinant perforin, expression and uses thereof

摘要

The present invention relates to retroviral vectors capable of driving the expression of perforin in a cell and a method of expressing recombinant perforin in a cell. The present invention also relates to recombinant perforin polypeptides and nucleic acid molecules derived therefrom and uses thereof. Also encompassed are screening assays employing such recombinant perforin molecules, compounds identified by the screening assays and uses thereof.