Fungal antigens and process for producing the same

An isolated nucleic acid encoding a fungal antigen which originates from the genus Candida and has a vaccine activity or an allergen activity, wherein said nucleic acid hybridizes to the complete complement of a nucleic acid of the nucleotide sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO:7 in Sequence Listing in 6×SSC containing 0.5% SDS, 0.1% bovine serum albumin (BSA), 0.1% polyvinyl pyrrolidone, 0.1% Ficoll 400, and 0.01% denatured salmon sperm DNA at 50° C.;

• followed by washing initially at 37° C. in 2×SSC containing 0.5% SDS and changing the SSC concentration to 0.1×SSC and the SSC temperature to 50° C.

An isolated nucleic acid encoding a fungal antigen which is an antigen comprising an antigenic protein having a vaccine activity or an allergen activity originating from Candida albicans, wherein said antigenic protein comprises the amino acid sequence as shown by SEQ ID NO:6 in Sequence Listing.

An isolated nucleic acid encoding a fungal antigen which originates from the genus Candida and has a vaccine activity or an allergen activity, wherein said nucleic acid hybridizes to the complete complement of a nucleic acid of the nucleotide sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO:8 in Sequence Listing in 6×SSC containing 0.5% SDS, 0.1% bovine serum albumin (BSA), 0.1% polyvinyl pyrrolidone, 0.1% Ficoll 400, and 0.01% denatured salmon sperm DNA at 50° C.;

• followed by washing initially at 37° C. in 2×SSC containing 0.5% SDS and changing the SSC concentration to 0.1×SSC and the SSC temperature to 50° C.