Abstract:
The invention is in the field of prevention or treatment of diseases, in particular infectious diseases, and more particularly in the field of multivalent vaccines. The inventors characterized 5' copy-back DI- RNAs produced by recombinant MV strains, including rMV-based vaccines and wild-type MV ( wt - MV). The efficiency of these DI-RNAs productions in different cell types was compared. For the first time 5' copy-back DI-RNAs specific binding to RIG-I, MDA5 and LGP2 was assessed and linked to functional outcome in type-I IFN signalling. The inventors provide a composition of products comprising at least (i) a mixture of particles of a rescued recombinant MV-derived virus encoding at least one antigen (ii) a recombinant and/or purified protein, comprising at least one antigen. Regardless of the presentation of the products, and in particular regardless of whether the products are separated or readily separable or presented as a mixture.
Abstract:
The present invention generally relates to compositions and methods for delivering a vaccine. The compositions and methods disclosed herein are particularly useful in making prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines.
Abstract:
The invention provides a human cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) agonist epitope from the C-terminal subunit of mucin 1 (MUC1-C), which can be used as a peptide, polypeptide (protein), and/or in vaccine or other composition for the prevention or therapy of cancer. The invention further provides a nucleic acid encoding the peptide, protein, or polypeptide, a vector comprising the nucleic acid, a cell comprising the peptide, polypeptide, nucleic acid, or vector, and compositions thereof.
Abstract:
Protein conjugate comprising a protein antigen for generating an immune response against the HER2/neu protein and an immunogenic carrier covalently bonded to said protein antigen, wherein said protein antigen (i) has a sequence segment of 300 or more contiguous amino acids of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1; or (ii) has a variant sequence segment of 300 or more amino acid residues, wherein the amino acid sequence of said variant sequence segment has at least 85% sequence identity to a sequence portion from SEQ ID: 1; or (iii) has a variant sequence segment of 300 or more amino acid residues and has from 1 to 10 substitutions, deletions or additions in said variant sequence segment compared to a sequence segment of 300 or more amino acid residues of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2.
Abstract translation:包含用于产生针对HER2 / neu蛋白的免疫应答的蛋白质抗原的蛋白质缀合物和与所述蛋白质抗原共价结合的免疫原性载体,其中所述蛋白质抗原(i)具有氨基酸的300个或更多个连续氨基酸的序列片段 SEQ ID NO:1的序列; 或(ii)具有300个或更多个氨基酸残基的变体序列片段,其中所述变体序列片段的氨基酸序列与SEQ ID:1的序列部分具有至少85%的序列同一性; 或(iii)具有300个或更多个氨基酸残基的变体序列片段,并且与所述变体序列片段中的氨基酸序列的300个或更多个氨基酸残基的序列片段相比,具有1至10个取代,缺失或添加 SEQ ID NO:1或2。
Abstract:
The invention relates to nasally-administered vaccine compositions effective in naive subjects such as children. Further, the vaccine composition is suitable for vaccinating the general population during a pandemic. One aspect of the invention is directed to the paediatric use of the vaccine of the invention including a vaccine effective in children against seasonal influenza virus strains. A further aspect of the invention is directed to subjects of all age groups when the composition is for pandemic use.
Abstract:
This invention generally relates to immunogenic compositions that comprise an RNA component and a polypeptide component. Immunogenic compositions that deliver antigenic epitopes in two different forms - a first epitope from a pathogen, in RNA-coded form; and a second epitope from the same pathogen, in polypeptide form - are effective in inducing immune response to the pathogen. The invention also relates to a kit comprising an RNA- based priming composition and a polypeptide-based boosting composition. The kit may be used for sequential administration of the priming and the boosting compositions.
Abstract:
Disclosed are yeast-based immunotherapeutic compositions, hepatitis B virus (HBV) antigens, and fusion proteins for the treatment and/or prevention of HBV infection and symptoms thereof, as well as methods of using the yeast-based immunotherapeutic compositions, HBV antigens, and fusion proteins for the prophylactic and/or therapeutic treatment of HBV and/or symptoms thereof.
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The present invention relates to a combined measles-malaria vaccine containing different attenuated recombinant measles-malaria vectors comprising a heterologous nucleic acid encoding several Plasmodium falciparum antigens. Preferably, it relates to viral vectors that comprise nucleic acids encoding the circumsporozoite (CS) protein of P. falciparum, the merozoite surface protein 1 (MSP-I) of P. falciparum, and its derivatives (p-42; p-83-30-38) in its glycosylated and secreted forms, and apical membrane antigen 1 (AMAl) of P. falciparum, in its anchored or secreted form. The viral vector stems from an attenuated measles virus, based on a strain that is used as a vaccine and is efficient in delivering the gene of interest and that binds to and infects the relevant immune cells efficiently. In a preferred embodiment, the CS, the MSPl and the AMAl proteins are generated from the virus such that they will give rise to a potent immune response in mammals, preferably humans; the expression of the proteins is elevated due to human codon optimisation. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of the recombinant vaccine in the prophylactic treatment of malaria.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to immunotherapeutic peptides and their use in immunotherapy, in particular the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention discloses tumor-associated T-helper cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions which stimulate anti-tumor immune responses. In particular, the composition of the peptides of the present invention can be used in vaccine compositions for eliciting anti-tumor immune responses against gliomas.