Combined enteropathogen recombinant construct
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
InventorsPatricia Guerry, Mario Artur Monteiro, Stephen Savarino
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Abstract
The inventive subject matter relates to a construct comprising antigens derived from multiple enterobacteria including Campylobacter jejuni capsule polysaccharide polymer, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli recombinant polypeptide construct and lipopolysaccharide from Shigella spp. The subject invention also relates to a method of inducing an immune response utilizing the inventive composition.
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A multi-agent immunogenic construct comprising a Campylobacter jejuni capsule polysaccharide conjugated to a protein carrier, wherein said protein carrier comprises an Escherichia coli enterotoxigenic recombinant polypeptide construct, wherein said Escherichia coli recombinant polypeptide construct comprises a minor or major subunit connected to one or more major fimbrial subunits or immunogenic fragments, thereof of the same fimbrial type, via a polypeptide linker, and wherein each of the one or more major fimbrial subunits contain, a donor β strand and are also connected to each other via a polypeptide linker wherein the C-terminal Escherichia coli fimbrial major subunit is connected, via a linker, to a C-terminal donor β strand derived from a major Escherichia coli fimbrial subunit that is homologous or heterologous to the immediately N-terminal major subunit, or wherein said recombinant polypeptide construct is connected to one or more additional recombinant polypeptide constructs, wherein each of the constructs contain fimbrial subunits derived from a different fimbrial type than any of the other constructs and wherein the recombinant polypeptide construct can contain a C-terminal histidine tag at the C-terminus, wherein the Escherichia coli recombinant polypeptide construct comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID 104.
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