Methods and compositions comprising bacteriophage nanoparticles
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Applications(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- CATHOLIC UNIV OF AMERICA
- Publication Date
- 2007-05-30
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Abstract
Description
field of invention
[0001] The present invention relates to novel methods and compositions comprising bacteriophage. More specifically, the present invention includes novel and custom T4 phages uniquely designed for efficient antigen and foreign particle presentation. The methods and compositions of the invention can be used in efficient vaccine delivery systems. Background of the invention
[0002] In phage display, foreign peptides, domains or proteins are fused to structural proteins and exposed on the outer surface of the phage capsid (Smith, 1985). The coat proteins (M13, fd, and fl), the small coat protein pIII (4–5 copies), and the large coat protein pVIII (2700 copies) of filamentous bacteriophage have been widely used to generate A combinatorial library of peptides from ® (Smith and Petrenko, 1997; Manoutcharian et al., 2001). Other display systems using icosahedral phages lambda and T7 have also been developed (Maruyama et al., 1994; Danner and Belasco, 2001). T...