摘要:
Antibodies that immunoreact with the hepatitis B virus HBxAg antigen and with HBxAg polypeptides, as well as diagnostic system and methods for assaying for the presence of HBxAg and anti-HBxAg antibodies in a body sample are disclosed.
摘要:
What is disclosed is a protein immunoreactive with antibodies raised against HBsAg, which protein has the formula: X-S-Y, S represents a peptide residue of the hepatitis B virus S-protein, Y is OH or NH.sub.2 and X is selected from the pre-S1/pre-S2 peptide residue, the pre S2 peptide residue and a fragment of the pre-S1/pre-S2 peptide residue containing at least a 9 amino acid portion of the C-terminal sequence of pre-S2.
摘要:
Polypeptides corresponding in amino acid residue sequence to T cell stimulating regions of the HBV nucleocapsid protein are disclosed. A method of enhancing the immunogenicity of a polypeptide immunogen comprising operatively linking the polypeptide through an amino acid residue side chain to core protein particles is also disclosed.
摘要:
A reagent for an ELISA determination of an antibody, the reagent comprising a peptide covalently linked to beta-lactamase. The reagent can be used in the following method to detect antibodies in a sample which involvesa. contacting the sample with protein A linked to a solid support,b. incubating the sample-protein A linked to the solid support,c. washing the incubated sample-protein A linked to the solid support,d. contacting the washed sample-protein A with the reagent,e. incubating the sample-protein A and reagent,f. washing the incubated sample-protein A-reagent, andg. determining the enzymatic activity of the resultant mass.
摘要:
A single polypeptide antigen that includes the amino acid residue sequence and epitope of a conformation-independent antigenic determinant and the amino acid residue sequence but lacks the epitope of a conformation-dependent antigenic determinant is disclosed as are methods of its manufacture and use and articles of manufacture using the same. The uses of the pre-S(2) region polypeptide encoded by the hepatitis B virus genome as a T cell proliferating agent and as a potentiator for enhancing the humoral immune response of animals that exhibit a low humoral response to an S region-containing immunogen are also disclosed.
摘要:
Chemically synthesized polypeptides include amino acid residue sequences that substantially correspond to the amino acid residue sequences of T Cell and B cell determinant portions of a natural, pathogen-related protein, in particular, a hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAG). When administered to a host alone, as polymers or as carrier-bound conjugates, the polypeptides induce the proliferation of thymus-derived cells in hosts primed against hepatitis B virus.
摘要:
Described are methods for isolating Hepatitis C Virus peptides (HPs) that have a binding capacity to a MHC/HLA molecule or a complex comprising the HCV-peptide and the MHC/HLA molecule. In one aspect, these methods include providing a pool of HCV-peptide, said pool containing HCV-peptides which bind to said MHC/HLA molecule and HCV-peptides which do not bind to said MHC/HLA molecule, contacting said MHC/HLA molecule with said pool of HCV-peptides whereby a HCV-peptide which has a binding capacity to said MHC/HLA molecule binds to said MHC/HLA molecule and a complex comprising said HCV-peptide and said MHC/HLA molecule is formed, detecting and optionally separating said complex from the HCV-peptide which do not bind to said MHC/HLA molecule and optionally isolating and characterizing the HCV-peptide from said complex. Also described are immunogenic compositions that stimulate a specific T cell response to hepatitis C virus when administered to a subject in an effective amount.
摘要:
Described is a method for isolating Hepatitis C Virus peptides (HPs) which have a binding capacity to a MHC/HLA molecule or a complex comprising said HCV-peptide and said MHC/HLA molecule characterized by the following steps: —providing a pool of HCV-peptide, said pool containing HCV-peptides which bind to said MHC/HLA molecule and HCV-peptides which do not bind to said MHC/HLA molecule, —contacting said MHC/HLA molecule with said pool of HCV-peptides whereby a HCV-peptide which has a binding capacity to said MHC/HLA molecule binds to said MHC/HLA molecule and a complex comprising said HCV-peptide and said MHC/HLA molecule is formed, —detecting and optionally separating said complex from the HCV-peptide which do not bind to said MHC/HLA molecule and optionally isolating and characterising the HCV-peptide from said complex.
摘要:
A hepatitis C virus antigen polypeptide having a molecular weight of approximately 22 kilodaltons expressed from a hepatitis C virus structural gene region; a production method for a hepatitis C virus antigen polypeptide having a molecular weight of 22 kilodaltons and/or a peptide related thereto, wherein an expression vector having inserted thereinto a cDNA fragment of a hepatitis C virus structural gene region is inserted into a cultured cell line and the transfected cell line thus obtained is cultured; and a detection method for a hepatitis C virus antibody, wherein a hepatitis C virus antigen polypeptide is used as an antigen, and an antibody specific thereto is detected.
摘要:
The entire hepatitis B virus pre-S antigen gene linked in one contiguous reading frame to the hepatitus B virus surface antigen gene has been expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The expressed protein aggregates into a particulate form which displays the major antigenic sites encoded by both domains, thereby highlighting the utility of yeast as a host for the expression of pre-S domains. This protein is useful in in vitro diagnostic systems and as a vaccine for the treatment and prevention of hepatitis B virus-induced diseases and/or infections.