78 results about "Auto antigen" patented technology

The present invention provides methods and compositions for expanding Treg cells ex vivo or in vivo using one or more conjugates comprising a costimulatory moiety that stimulates at least one of three signals involved in Treg cell development and/or using dendritic cells pulsed with antigens and modified to display TGF-β, or hematopoetic stem cells or bone marrow cells modified to display TGF-β. The methods and compositions are useful, for example, in the treatment and prevention of autoimmune disease, including Type 1 diabetes and in preventing foreign graft rejection, as well as to establish mixed chimerism, induce tolerance to autoantigens, alloantigens or xenoantigens, beta cell regeneration, prevention of foreign graft rejection, and treatment of a genetically inherited hematopoietic disorder.

ITP may be treated using a method that involves identifying the autoimmune response, collecting allogeneic platelets, sterilizing allogeneic platelets and feeding them orally. Auto-antigens contained on the surface of allogeneic platelets administered to the intestines deactivate or delete lymphocytes responsible for auto-antibody production. This treatment can be used for ITP, specifically targets the cause of the disease and provides the possibility of a sustained response without further medication.

The present invention provides a method of producing autoantigens, compositions comprising autoantigenic fragments and methods of using autoantigenic fragments in the treatment of a condition associated with an autoimmune response. Also provided are assays for the detection or assessment of an autoimmune response.

The invention relates to a protein chip, a protein chip diagnostic kit, a preparation method and a using method. The protein chip contains the following protein markers of autologous antigen protein: a P53 antigen fragment, an SOX2 antigen fragment, a COPB1 antigen fragment, an EFHD2 antigen fragment, an EIF4G3 antigen fragment and a PCNA antigen fragment, wherein the characteristic amino acid sequence of the P53 antigen fragment is as shown in ID.1sequence; the characteristic amino acid sequence of the SOX2 antigen fragment is as shown in ID.2sequence; the characteristic amino acid sequence of the COPB1 antigen fragment is as shown in ID.3sequence; the characteristic amino acid sequence of the EFHD2 fragment is as shown in picture 4seeqeunce; the characteristic amino acid sequence of the EIF4G3 antigen fragment is as shown in ID.5seqeunce; the characteristic amino acid sequence of the PCNA antigen fragment is as shown in ID.6sequence. Early diagnosis or general investigation screening for suspected patients of lung cancer or high-risk population of lung cancer can be carried out extremely conveniently, quickly, noninvasively and efficiently.

The presence of certain auto-antibodies indicates that a subject has lupus. The auto-antibodies recognise antigens listed in Table 1 herein. These auto-antibodies and/or the antigens themselves can be used as biomarkers for assessing lupus in a subject.

The present invention relates to non-immunogenic RNA. This RNA forms the basis for the development of therapeutic agents for inducing tolerance towards an autoantigen and thus, for the treatment of autoimmune diseases.

An antigen-specific T-cell response to alloantigen, tissue-specific antigen (e.g., islet antigen or other autoantigens involved in autoimmune disease), or self (or host) antigen is detected at an early stage of graft rejection or recurrent autoimmunity. An increase in cytotoxic lymphocyte gene (CLG) expression in peripheral blood is a risk factor for development of deleterious immune responses, which may be confirmed by functional assays. For example, the distinction between production of regulatory or inflammatory cytokines by T cells may dissect the type of immune response which is being induced: the survival of transplanted islet cells used to treat type 1 diabetes may be monitored, loss of the transplant by graft rejection (i.e., an alloantigen target) may be distinguished from autoimmune disease (i.e., a self or host antigen target).

The invention discloses a human-derived anti-bullous pemphigoid antigen BP180 ScFv; the gene sequence of the BP180 ScFv structurally belongs to the single-chain antibody (scFv) and is composed of a light chain variable region gene and a heavy chain variable region gene. The antibody preparation method mainly comprises the following steps: a, separating the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of bullous pemphigoid patients, extracting the RNA and constructing a phage antibody library through RT-PCR amplification of the antibody light and heavy chain variable region genes; b, selecting the BP180 phage antibodies from the phage antibody library; c, obtaining the human-derived anti-BP180 ScFv of soluble expression through genetic engineering means; d, identifying the binding activity, specificity, affinity and other immunological characteristics of the obtained antibody. The antibody of the invention can block the binding activity between the bullous pemphigoid autoantibody and the corresponding self-antigen and can block the activation of the complement-mediated inflammatory response as a result of the combination of the autoantibodies, and can be used in bullous pemphigoid treatment.

Synthetic human target autoantigen genes comprising sequences coding for at least two immunogenic epitopic clusters (hereinafter IEC) of autoantigen(s) related to a specific autoimmune disease, wherein said at least two IECs may be derived from a sole autoantigen or from at least two different autoantigens related to said autoimmune disease, and polypeptides encoded thereby, can be used for the treatment and the diagnosis of autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS), insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), myasthenia gravis (MG) and uveitis.

The invention relates to methods of characterizing autoimmune diseases by detecting and measuring at least one analyte using multiplexed assay systems. According to one embodiment, a target is detected and measured by different bead sets having different reactants. According to another approach the ratio of self-antigen to autoantibody is measured by exposing a sample suspected of containing self-antigen and autoantibody to a bead set associated with monoclonal antibody specific for the self-antigen and a bead set associated with the self-antigen.

The invention discloses a specific autoantigen EIF2C1 of primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC). According to the specific autoantigen of PBC and the application thereof, six novel autoantigens of PBC are obtained through screening; during the detection on the blood serum of a PBC patient, the positive rate of each autoantigen reaches over 15%, so that the new-found autoantigens are potential biomarkers which are used for accurately diagnosing PBC through distinguishing other autoimmune diseases.

The invention relates to the treatment of autoimmune diseases and disorders, in particular myasthenia gravis, by administration of effector-function-deficient antibodies, wherein said effector-function-deficient antibodies are capable of competing with one or more of the auto-antibodies involved in mediating the antibody-mediated auto-immune disease or disorder for binding to a target auto-antigen.

A method and compositions for detecting autoimmunity to islet glucose-6 phosphatase related protein (IGRP). Detection of IGRP autoantibodies alone, and in combination with other molecules such as the 65-kDa form of glutamate decarboxylase (GAD₆₅), insulin and insulin granule membrane proteins ICA512 (IA-2) and phogrin (IA-2) auto-antigens, provides an effective and reliable chemical assay for the diagnosis of autoimmune (type 1) diabetes. Additionally, this invention provides therapeutic regimens based on IGRP and related molecules for the amelioration of the diabetic clinical condition. Therefore, IGRP alone or in combination with other autoimmune diabetes associated antigens such as insulin, IA-2 and GAD₆₅, is useful in the prediction (diagnosis), treatment (therapy), and prevention (prophylaxis) of diabetes.

The invention is directed to a new method for the treatment of new onset Type I diabetes in mammals or for the treatment of pre-Type I diabetic mammals where the method comprises administering (a) anti-T cell therapy to the mammal and administering (b) an autoantigen and optional mucosal antigen composition, wherein (a) and (b) are administered concurrently or sequentially Exemplified is a treatment using a mixture of anti-CD3 antibodies, a glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) autoantigen, and an immunoregulatory cytokine Canme GAD sequences are also disclosed.