267 results about "Multi epitope" patented technology

Provided herein are compositions and methods related to MHC II binding peptides. In some embodiments, the peptides are obtained or derived from a common source. In other embodiment, the peptides are obtained or derived from an infectious agent to which a subject has been repeatedly exposed.

The present invention relates to cancer vaccines composed of the signal peptide domain of tumor associated antigens or proteins. The peptide vaccines of the invention are characterized by having multiple MHC class I and class II epitopes which are highly abundant in the population. Therefore, these vaccines are likely to induce a strong, comprehensive immune response against the target proteins in the majority of the vaccinated population, and thereby induce an immune reaction against tumors expressing such target proteins. Specifically, the invention relates to peptide vaccines composed of the signal peptide domain of Mucin (MUC1), BAGE-1 or ARMET, and their use for the treatment of cancers which express Mucin (MUC1), BAGE-1 or ARMET.

The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides comprising: (i) a protein transduction domain consisting of ZEBRA or a fragment thereof that retains the capacity of internalization, (ii) at least one CD4⁺ epitope; and (iii) at least one CD8⁺ epitope. It also relates to antigen presenting cells loaded with said polypeptides, and the use thereof in immunotherapy including prevention and/or treatment of cancers or infectious diseases.

This invention relates to a fusion protein used for preventing aftosa, its preparation method and application. This fusion protein contains O type foot-and-mouth disease virus main cytomembrane protein VP1 epitope, colibacillus thermolability toxin B subunit, thymus derived cell epitope and purification label.

The invention discloses a pig foot-and-mouth disease virus O-type broad spectrum multi-epitope recombination antigen and application thereof and belongs to the field of biological vaccines. The pig foot-and-mouth disease virus O-type broad spectrum multi-epitope recombination antigen adopts a strategy of an antigenized antibody, after main antigen epitopes of a plurality of strains of pig foot-and-mouth disease virus O-type are connected in series reasonably, the plurality of strains of pig foot-and-mouth disease virus O-type are coupled with a pig intravenous gamma globulin (IgG) heavy chain constant region to construct the pig foot-and-mouth disease virus O-type broad spectrum multi-epitope recombination antigen, and after ration through a Bio-Rad protein ration kit, the pig foot-and-mouth disease virus O-type broad spectrum multi-epitope recombination antigen and recombination foot-and-mouth disease virus 3D protein are matched to prepare the vaccines. Animal immunity testing results show that the vaccines can stimulate an organism to generate high-titer protective antibodies when the vaccines are used independently or matched with the recombination foot-and-mouth disease virus 3D protein to be used, an antibody level is higher than a national standard, and good application prospects are achieved.

The invention discloses gene orders of schistosoma japonicum recombinant multi-epitope antigens BSjGCP-BSj23 and BSjGCP-BSj23-BSj28, a method for expressing and purifying the same, and application thereof in preparing schistosomiasis japonica immunity prevention vaccines and diagnostic reagents. Recombinant multi-epitope nucleic acid vaccines pCMV-BSjGCP-BSj23 and pCMV-BSjGCP-BSj23-BSj28 obtain 14.76 percent and 64.95 percent of worm reduction rates respectively in Kunming mice. The recombinant multi-epitope antigens pGEX-BSjGCP-BSj23 and pGEX-BSjGCP-BSj23-BSj28 obtain 15.7 percent and 57.99 percent of worm reduction rates in immunizing BalB/c mice, and obtain 91.0 percent and 89.9 percent of sensitivities as well as 97.8 percent and 93.4 percent of specificities respectively as diagnostic antigens.

The invention relates to the diagnostic medicine of animals, especially relates to a mycoplasma bovis diagnosis technology, and concretely relates to a multi-epitope fusion antigen having an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:1 or SEQ ID NO:2, and its application in the preparation of a mycoplasma bovis diagnosis reagent. The diagnosis reagent can be used as a solid phase vector coating antigen of an indirect ELISA kit and is combined with its specific antibody, a horseradish peroxidase coupled anti-cattle IgG antibody is added and incubated, and a color development reaction is carried out, and the color development degree is proportional to the amount of the anti-mycoplasma bovis antibody in a sample to be measured. The technology has the advantages of simple operation, no need of complex equipment, low technical requirements on the laboratorial conditions and experiment personals, low detection cost, and suitableness for the large-scale development in the basic level and the culture farm; the multi-epitope fusion antigen has a low making cost and is suitable for large-scale application; and has the advantages of high sensitivity and specificity, small batch difference, and high detection result consistence because of the adoption of multi-epitope as a target.

The invention provides a high-specificity high-sensitivity coordinated compound anti-human-TK1 antibody prepared from an antigenic determinant composed of human cervical cancer cell TK1 monomer N-terminal 23 peptide, C-terminal 20 peptide and C-terminal 28 peptide, and application thereof in tumor diagnosis. The antigenic determinant contains the following amino acid sequences: N-terminal 23 peptide (3-25): CINLPTVLPGSPSKTRGQIQVIL, C-terminal 20 peptide (206-225) CPVPGKPGEAVAARKLFAPQ, and C-terminal 28 peptide (198-225) AGPDNKENCPVPGKPGEAVAARKLFAPQ. The invention also relates to a method for preparing the antibody prepared from the antigen. The antibody kit provided by the invention has the characteristics of high sensitivity, high specificity, low cost and the like. The treatment effect on the tumor patient is evaluated by an enhanced chemiluminescent point blotting detection method, immunohistochemical detection and the detection kit.

The invention discloses an Asia1 type multi-epitope recombinant vaccine of bovine foot-and-mouth disease viruses and a preparation method thereof. The recombinant vaccine comprises the following components: proteins coded by foot-and-mouth disease virus multi-epitope genes and the fusion genes of carrier proteins, and foot-and-mouth disease virus 3D proteins. The preparation method comprises the following steps: diluting the proteins expressed by the foot-and-mouth disease virus multi-epitope genes and the fusion genes of the carrier proteins and the foot-and-mouth disease virus 3D proteins, mixing the diluted proteins uniformly, adding an adjuvant into the mixture to emulsify the mixture. Animal models and animal immune effect experiments show that the bovine Asia1 epitope recombinant vaccine can make comprehensive immune protective response, can induce injected and immunized bovine and guinea pigs to generate high level neutralizing antibodies, and can also induce cell immune response, so the recombinant vaccine can effectively protect animals against the virulent attack of the foot-and-mouth disease viruses.

The invention discloses a sheep aphthovirus Asial type multi-epitope recombinant vaccine and a preparation method thereof. The recombinant vaccine comprises the following ingredients: a protein encoded by aphthovirus multi-epitope genes and carrier protein fusion genes, and an aphthovirus 3D protein. The preparation method comprises the following steps: respectively diluting the protein encoded by the aphthovirus multi-epitope genes and the carrier protein fusion genes and the aphthovirus 3D protein; then, uniformly mixing the diluted proteins; adding auxiliary agents into the mixture; carrying out emulsification; and obtaining the sheep aphthovirus Asia1 type multi-epitope recombinant vaccine. Animal model and animal immune efficiency experiments show that the sheep Asial epitope recombinant vaccine of the invention can generate overall immunoprotection reaction, injected immune sheep can be induced to generate high-level neutralizing antibodies, and can also induce the cellullar immunologic response. The recombinant vaccine of the invention can effectively protect animals from the virulent strain attack of the aphthovirus.

The invention provides a high-specificity and high-sensitivity coordination combination anti-human TK1 antibody prepared from an antigenic determinant consisting of 23 peptide at an N end, 20 peptide at a C end and 28 peptide at the C end of human cervical cancer cells, and application thereof to tumor diagnosis. The antigenic determinant comprises the following amino acid sequences: 1) the 23 peptide (3-25) at the N end: CINLPTVLPGSPSKTRGQIQVIL: 2) the 20 peptide (206-225) at the C end: CPVPGKPGEAVAARKLFAPQ; and 3) the 28 peptide at the C end: AGPDNKENCPVPGKPGEAVAARKLFAPQ. The invention simultaneously provides a method applying the antigen for preparing the antibody. An antibody kit provided by the invention has the characteristics of high sensitivity, high specificity, low cost and the like, tumor rehabilitation populations are periodically monitored by an enhanced chemiluminescence dot blot detection method, immunohistochemistry detection and the detection kit, and the recurrence and transfer risk and the prognosis of the tumor rehabilitation people are evaluated.

The invention discloses a specific antibody of a campylobacter jejuni specific multi-epitope artificial polypeptide and coated immunomagnetic beads and an application thereof. The amino acid sequence of the artificial polypeptide prepared after tandem expression of a campylobacter jejuni specific surface protein multi-antigen epitope is SEQ ID No.1. A nucleotide sequence for encoding the campylobacter jejuni specific surface protein multi-antigen epitope is SEQ ID No.2. A kit for enriching campylobacter jejuni comprises immunomagnetic beads containing a specific antibody coated with the campylobacter jejuni specific multi-epitope artificial polypeptide. By applying the immunomagnetic beads or the kit, campylobacter jejuni can be enriched from a sample pre-enrichment liquid, and the sensitivity and detectable rate of subsequent separate culturing or PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) detection are increased greatly; and the specific antibody has the advantages of high specificity, high sensitivity, easiness, convenience, rapidness and suitability for large-scale sample detection.

The invention discloses a multi-epitope peptide-loaded DC (dendritic cell) therapeutic vaccine for HCV (hepatitis C viruses), relating to the technical field of virology and immunology. The multi-epitope peptide-loaded DC (dendritic cell) therapeutic vaccine is characterized in that two CTL epitopes (namely, a NS4B (1793-1801) SMMAFSAAL and a P7 (774-782) AAWYIKGRL) are used for constructing recombinant adenoviruses, then the recombinant adenoviruses are used for infecting human dendritic cells so as to prepare a multi-epitope DC vaccine. Detection results indicate that the multi-epitope peptide-loaded DC (dendritic cell) therapeutic vaccine for HCV (hepatitis C viruses) disclosed by the invention has an immunogenicity.

The invention provides a preparation method of a bivalent vaccine by taking newcastle disease virus La Sota strain and infectious bronchitis virus N-S multi-epitope protein as antigen. To immunize 21-day-old chickens, the bivalent vaccine prepared by the method disclosed by the invention can be used for simultaneously preventing newcastle disease and nephrotropic infectious bronchitis virus infection, and the antibody level of the bivalent vaccine is higher than that of respectively immunizing by single vaccine, so that immunological stress is effectively relieved and immunity time is reduced.

The invention belongs to vaccine and preparation thereof, in particular to a vaccine for preventing and curing tumor and preparation thereof. The vaccine is prepared by steps of: choosing a telomerase reverse transcriptase epitope sequence, serially connecting nucleotides the telomerase reverse transcriptase with multi-epitope, preparing the DNA vaccine of the telomerase reverse transcriptase with multi-epitope, and preparing the multi-epitope vaccine of the telomerase reverse transcriptase with multi-epitope. The invention overcomes the shortcomings that a single peptide vaccine only has a clinical effect in several tumor patients. After the vaccine has an immune body, the epitope specific CD4+T cells and the CD8+T cells can be activated. Under the assistance of the Th1 cell factor excreted from the CD4+T cells, the CD8+CTL can kill the tumor cell presenting TERT so as to prevent and cure tumor.

The invention belongs to the technical field of biological medicine and biological detection and particularly relates to an epitope minimum motif peptide of P1, VP2 and VP4 structural proteins in a type O foot and mouth disease virus (FMDV) strain (O/BY/CHA/2010) and application of the epitope. Five linear epitope minimum motif peptides provided by the invention can be used as candidate epitope peptides for research and development of a novel recombinant multi-epitope peptide vaccine against type O FMDV and have amino acid sequences as shown in SEQ. ID NO.1-SEQ. ID NO.5. The invention also provides a candidate epitope for research of a detection antigen of a high-specificity and high-sensitivity recombinant multi-epitope peptide for diagnosing prevalence of the FMDV and the candidate epitope has amino acid sequences as shown in the SEQ. ID NO.6-SEQ. ID NO.10.

The invention discloses an HIV composite multi-epitope DNA vaccine which takes HIV-1 capsid protein p24 as a vector backbone molecule and ER signal peptide as a homing sequence, and contains twenty-six highly conservative immunodominant epitopes in an HIV genome; wherein, the HIV composite multi-epitope DNA vaccine comprises twenty-nine epitopes which are three neutralizing antibody epitopes, twenty-three CTL epitopes, one HIV-1 isolate common antibody epitope, one MHC nonrestrictive T helper lymphocyte epitope and one spasmotoxin B cell epitope. The vaccine can be used for vaccination of healthy people and immunization therapy of people who are infected by AIDS virus, thus having double effects of prevention and treatment.

A recombinant protein vaccine which is a fusion protein of BCG vaccine's heat shock protein 65 and the core antigen of multi-epitope hepatitis-C virus, its amino acid sequence and nucleotide sequencefor coding it, the expression carrier containing said nucleotide sequence, the host cell containing said expression carrier, the preparing process of said recombinant protein vaccine, the vaccine containing said recombinant protein for preventing and treating hepatitis C, and a method for detecting the activity of specifically killing T, lymphocytes by the hepatitis C induced by said vaccine and its cell model are disclosed.

The invention discloses a bovine A-type foot-and-mouth disease multi-epitope recombinant vaccine, and a preparation method and an application thereof, and belongs to the field of veterinary vaccine research. The preparation method comprises the following steps: carrying out reasonable serial connection on the dominant antigen epitopes of bovine A-type foot-and-mouth disease virus representative strains once pandemic in China by adopting an antigenized antibody strategy and a brand new reverse vaccinology technology and strategy, coupling with a bovine IgG immunostimulatory fragment (IgG heavy chain constant region), cloning into a prokaryotic expression vector to construct a recombinant expression vector, transforming Escherichia coli cells to express a recombinant antigen, purifying by adopting Ni-NAT column chromatography, quantifying by a Bio-Rad protein quantification kit, and preparing the vaccine individually or combining with a recombinant foot-and-mouth disease virus 3D protein. A result of animal immune experiments shows that the recombinant protein or combined vaccine can stimulate the body to produce a protective antibody with high titer and also can protect immune animals against a virus attack, so the bovine A-type foot-and-mouth disease multi-epitope recombinant vaccine has a good application prospect.

The invention relates to preparation and application of a mycoplasma hyopneumoniae multi-epitope mucosal vaccine. A mycoplasma hyopneumoniae membrane protein, an adhesive protein P97, a lipoprotein P65, a specific membrane protein P46, a B cell epitope, a Th epitope, a CTL epitope and a cholera toxin subunit B are taken as a vaccine frame structure, a pRSETA carrier is cloned in through flexible linker connection, then Escherichia coli is transformed, and fermentation, purification and preparation technologies are carried out, so that the mycoplasma hyopneumoniae multi-epitope mucosal vaccine with ideal immunogenicity is obtained. A self-made mucosal adjuvant is used in a preparation process, so that production and using processes of the vaccine are simpler and more convenient. Animal experiments show that the mycoplasma hyopneumoniae multi-epitope mucosal vaccine not only has good safety but also can stimulate effective mucosal immunity, humoral immunity and cellular immune reactions.

The invention discloses a type A foot-and-mouth disease virus sIgA antibody ELISA kit and application thereof. The kit comprises an enzyme-labeled reaction plate coated with a type A foot-and-mouth disease virus broad-spectrum multi-epitope recombinant antigen, a 100x concentrated enzyme-labeled antibody, an enzyme-labeled antibody diluent, a sample diluent, a washing concentrate, a developing solution, a stop solution, a positive control sample and a negative control sample. The type A foot-and-mouth disease virus broad-spectrum multi-epitope recombinant antigen consists of dominant antigen epitopes (TB/A) of three separated representative type A foot-and-mouth disease strains of China, so that the detection sensitivity and specificity of the kit are improved, and the kit is applied to detection of infection by different type A foot-and-mouth disease viruses. The kit is suitable for detecting sIgA antibodies in mucosal secretions of three susceptible animals, i.e., pigs, cattle and sheep, and is significant for prevention and control of propagation and infection of type A foot-and-mouth disease viruses.

The invention discloses a bovine A-type foot-and-mouth disease broad-spectrum multi-epitope recombinant vaccine, and a preparation method and an application thereof, and belongs to the field of veterinary vaccine research. The preparation method comprises the following steps: carrying out reasonable serial connection on the major antigen epitopes of pandemic in China and bovine A-type foot-and-mouth disease virus representative strains recently pandemic in countries bordering China by adopting a brand new reverse vaccinology idea and strategy, coupling with a bovine IgG heavy chain constant region, cloning into a prokaryotic expression vector to construct a recombinant expression vector, transforming Escherichia coli cells to express a recombinant antigen, purifying by adopting Ni-NAT column chromatography, quantifying by a Bio-Rad protein quantification kit, and preparing the vaccine individually or combining with a recombinant foot-and-mouth disease virus 3D protein. A result of animal immune experiments shows that the multi-epitope antigen or 3D protein combined vaccine can stimulate the body to produce a protective antibody with high titer and also can protect immune animals against a virus attack, so the bovine A-type foot-and-mouth disease broad-spectrum multi-epitope recombinant vaccine has a good application prospect.

The present invention relates to an antigenic B-cell multi-epitope peptide linked in tandem in the outer membrane protein(Omp) U gene of vibrio mimicus, a making method and an application thereof, which belong to the field of molecular immunology. The B-cell multi-epitope peptide linked in tandem can induce fish to make protective immunity response to vibrio mimicus infection. In the present invention, the amino acid sequence of the antigenic B-cell multi-epitope peptide linked in tandem in the OmpU is shown in SEQIDNO:10. The B-cell multi-epitope peptide linked in tandem in the OmpU of vibrio mimicus is made by a genetic engineering technique. The verification of immune blotting analysis, specific antibody detection and immune animal protective experiments shows that the peptide can elicit efficient and specific protective humoral immunity response to vibrio mimicus infection. The B-cell multi-epitope peptide linked in tandem can be used for the immune diagnosis and the immune prevention and treatment of aquatic animal ascitic diseases. The present invention has high social benefit and economic benefit.