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US 8,263,363 B2Granted
Chimeric vaccine for Haemophilus influenzae-induced disease
AssigneeNationwide Children's Hospital, Inc.
InventorsLauren O. Bakaletz, Robert S. Munson, Jr.
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Abstract
The invention described herein relates to a chimeric protein comprising the NTHi twitching pilus major subunit protein (PilA) presenting a portion of the NTHi OMP P5 protein. The invention provides for vaccine compositions comprising the recombinant chimeric protein and methods of eliciting an immune response using the recombinant chimeric proteins of the invention.
Claims6
A polynucleotide encoding a chimeric protein wherein the chimeric protein comprises residues 40-149 of SEQ ID NO:
- 2 and SEQ ID NO:
- 4, wherein the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 4 is inserted before residue 40 of SEQ ID NO:
- 2 and wherein the chimeric protein is capable of eliciting an immune response to nontypeable H. influenzae (NTHi) bacteria.
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