Antigens and epitopes derived from Mycobacterium tuberculosis
AssigneeLa Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
InventorsAlessandro Sette, Cecilia Arlehamm, Bjoern Peters, Howard Grey, John Sidney
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Abstract
The present invention relates to M. tuberculosis proteins and peptides, and subsequences, portions or modifications thereof and methods and compounds comprising the same for eliciting, stimulating, inducing, promoting, increasing, or enhancing an anti-M. tuberculosis immune response in a subject.
Claims6
A pharmaceutical composition comprising a peptide consisting of an amino acid sequence having a length of 15-50 residues which has a sequence therein that is identical to any of SEQ ID NOs 35-36, 42-57, 63-94, 97-395, 398-403 and 405, wherein the peptide, elicits, stimulates, induces, promotes, increases or enhances an anti-MTB immune response and a pharmaceutically acceptable adjuvant or excipient.
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