384 results about "Vaccine antigen" patented technology

Microprojection members (10) having a reservoir containing an antigenic agent and methods of using such members to vaccinate mammals (e.g., humans) are disclosed. The microprojection members are used to transdermally deliver an antigenic agent (e.g., a vaccine antigen) with substantially reduced skin reactions. This is achieved by delivering an induction amount and thereafter delivering one or more subsequent booster amounts. The induction amount is relatively larger than the booster amount. This technology has broad applicability for a wide variety of therapeutic vaccines to improve efficacy and convenience of use.

Transgenic chloroplast technology could provide a viable solution to the production of Insulin-like Growth Factor I (IGF-I), Human Serum Albumin (HSA), or interferons (IFN) because of hyper-expression capabilities, ability to fold and process eukaryotic proteins with disulfide bridges (thereby eliminating the need for expensive post-purification processing). Tobacco is an ideal choice because of its large biomass, ease of scale-up (million seeds per plant), genetic manipulation and impending need to explore alternate uses for this hazardous crop. Therefore, all three human proteins will be expressed as follows: a) Develop recombinant DNA vectors for enhanced expression via tobacco chloroplast genomes b) generate transgenic plants c) characterize transgenic expression of proteins or fusion proteins using molecular and biochemical methods d) large scale purification of therapeutic proteins from transgenic tobacco and comparison of current purification/processing methods in E. coli or yeast e) Characterization and comparison of therapeutic proteins (yield, purity, functionality) produced in yeast or E. coli with transgenic tobacco f) animal testing and pre-clinical trials for effectiveness of the therapeutic proteins. Mass production of affordable vaccines can be achieved by genetically engineering plants to produce recombinant proteins that are candidate vaccine antigens. The B subunits of Enteroxigenic E. coli (LTB) and cholera toxin of Vibrio cholerae (CTB) are examples of such antigens. When the native LTB gene was expressed via the tobacco nuclear genome, LTB accumulated at levels less than 0.01% of the total soluble leaf protein. Production of effective levels of LTB in plants, required extensive codon modification. Amplification of an unmodified CTB coding sequence in chloroplasts, up to 10,000 copies per cell, resulted in the accumulation of up to 4.1% of total soluble tobacco leaf protein as oligomers (about 410 fold higher expression levels than that of the unmodified LTB gene). PCR and Southern blot analyses confirmed stable integration of the CTB gene into the chloroplast genome. Western blot analysis showed that chloroplast synthesized CTB assembled into oligomers and was antigenically identical to purified native CTB. Also, GM1,-ganglioside binding assays confirmed that chloroplast synthesized CTB binds to the intestinal membrane receptor of cholera toxin, indicating correct folding and disulfide bond formation within the chloroplast. In contrast to stunted nuclear transgenic plants, chloroplast transgenic plants were morphologically indistinguishable from untransformed plants, when CTB was constitutively expressed. The introduced gene was stably inherited in the subsequent generation as confirmed by PCR and Southern blot analyses. Incrased production of an efficient transmucosal carrier molecule and delivery system, like CTB, in transgenic chloroplasts makes plant based oral vaccines and fusion proteins with CTB needing oral administration a much more practical approach.

The invention is directed to compositions capable of augmenting the immunogenicity of a vaccine. The composition, or adjuvant, is administered to a mammal in need thereof in sequential or concurrent combination with a vaccine antigen. In one preferred aspect, the adjuvant is provided in the form of a recombinant poxvirus vector, such as a vaccinia virus vector, which comprises a nucleic acid sequence encoding IL-15.

The invention provides consensus sequences for hepatitis C virus 1a and 1b. Also provided are non-synonymous changes for each residue of the consensus sequences. These sequences are useful as compositions or vaccines for prophylactic use or treating HCV-infected individuals. Also provided are methods for lessening the chances for a HCV-infected individual to enter a chronic phase of infection and methods of diagnosing an individual with HCV 1a or HCV 1b infection.

The instant invention provides for novel lipid nanoparticle (LNP) formulations, containing cationic lipids, for use as vaccine adjuvants and/or as antigen delivery systems. It is an object of the instant invention to provide LNP formulations that demonstrate enhancements in humoral and cellular immunogenicity of vaccine antigens, particularly subunit vaccine antigens, when utilized alone or in combination with immunostimulatory agents (e.g. small molecule or oligonucleotide TLR agonists). The instant invention further identifies physical and chemical properties of the LNP formulations that can be manipulated to enhance antigen efficiency and adjuvant tolerability in vivo.

The invention discloses a method for rapidly, accurately and repeatedly determining foot-and-mouth disease vaccine antigen 146S. A size exclusion high-efficiency liquid-phase chromatographic column in a molecular weight separation range of 2*10<4> to 1*10<7>Da is adopted to carry out the chromatographic separation on a detected sample on a high-efficiency liquid-phase chromatography. The operation pressure of the chromatography is 1.0MPa to 2.5MPa, the flow rate in the chromatographic column is 0.5 to 1.0 ml/min, a flow phase is phosphate buffer (pH 7.0 to 7.5) containing 0.1M sodium sulfate, and the column temperature is 15 to 25 DEG C. An ultraviolet and laser detector is used for detecting an optical signal of effluent at an outlet of the size exclusion high-efficiency liquid-phase chromatographic column, and a peak area of a sample can be analyzed by virtue of a computer software system of the high-efficiency liquid-phase chromatography. A standard curve of the absorption peak area and 146S concentration is established by virtue of a relation between the ultraviolet absorption peak and the concentration of different 146S standard products of different concentrations. Chromatograph is carried out on the detected sample through the size exclusion high-efficiency liquid-phase chromatographic column. The ultraviolet absorption peak area is measured, and the concentration of 146S in the detected sample can be acquired according to the standard curve.

The invention provides a vaccine composition for preventing and treating porcine circovirus type 2, haemophilus parasuis and mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infection. The vaccine composition comprises an inactivated porcine circovirus type 2 antigen, inactivated haemophilus parasuis, inactivated mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and a vaccine adjuvant. The vaccine composition disclosed by the invention can realize the aim of preventing three diseases including a porcine circovirus disease, mycoplasma pneumonia, a haemophilus parasuis disease by one injection of the vaccine; the content of antigen is 1/2 of the content of a common single-vaccine antigen when the vaccine composition disclosed by the invention is prepared by mixing the three antigens; and compared with the existing condition that three injections of single vaccine are injected to prevent three infectious diseases, the technical scheme disclosed by the invention is economical and practical, reduces the production cost, simplifies an immune procedure and reduces the epidemic prevention cost.

The compounds of the subject invention are adjuvant molecules that comprise a imidazoquinoline molecule covalently linked to a phospho- or phosphonolipid group. The compounds of the invention have been shown to be inducers of interferon-a, IL-12 and other immunostimulatory cytokines and possess an improved activity profile in comparison to known cytokine inducers when used as adjuvants for vaccine antigens.

The invention discloses a nose-spraying flu immunization pentavalent or multivalent inactivated vaccine and preparation method thereof. The vaccine is inactivated vaccine antigen of totivirus, lytic virus, viron or virus-like particles, flue multivalent vaccine antigen is flue pentavalent, namely H1N1, H3N2, B, H5N1 and A (H1N1) or multivalent vaccine antigen combined on the basis at will, or flue multivalent vaccine antigen obtained by containing all the combination of the HA selecting from H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6, H7, H8, H9, H10, H11, H12, H13, H14, H15 and H16 and the NA selecting from N1, N2, N3, N4, N5, N6, N7, N8 and N9 subtypes on the basis. The content of flu multivalent inactivated vaccine antigen HA in the vaccine of the invention is 1.0-15.0 Mug/0.2ml/per person, and the vaccine of the invention can effectively prevent routine human flue, high pathogenicity H5N1 avian-human flu, influenza A (H1N1) and infection of other subtype influenza viruses.

The invention discloses a special diluent for swine mycoplasmal pneumonia vaccines. The special diluent mainly contains a recombinant P97R1 protein immunostimulating complex (ISCOM-P97R1); and in addition, the special diluent also possibly contains other water-based adjuvants comprising levomisole, astragalus polysaccharide or/and carbomer. 1 ml of diluent solution contains 0.1-1 mg of QuilA, 0.02-0.2 mg of cholesterol, 0.02-0.2 mg of phosphatidylcholine and 0.4-4 mg of P97R1 antigen; and in addition, 1 ml of diluent solution also possibly contains 2-20 mg of levomisole, 20-100 mg of astragalus polysaccharide or/and 3-10 mg of carbomer and a phosphate buffer solution for the rest. The diluent is specially used for dissolving or diluting the swine mycoplasmal pneumonia vaccines comprising a live vaccine and an inactivated vaccine, has the double effects of complementing vaccine antigen protection spectrums and improving the vaccine cell and humoral immunostimulation capability, can remarkably improve the toxic attack protection efficacy of the vaccines, and also has the advantages of being simple and convenient to operate, good in syringeability and free from remarkable toxic side reaction due to the adoption of a hydrosolvent system at the same time.

The invention discloses a recombinant helicobacter pylori protein vaccine and a preparation method thereof. The active ingredient recombinant fusion protein of the vaccine consists of recombinant LTAl-Ureal protein and LTB protein, the amino acid sequence of the recombinant LTAl-Ureal protein is shown as Seq ID No.1, the amino acid sequence of the LTB protein is shown as Seq ID No.2. Epitope-containing gene segments of Hp urease A subunit is inserted in an LTA subunit-encoded gene, a toxic part-containing segment is replaced to prepare a recombinant plasmid so as to express and obtain recombinant fusion protein polymer as a vaccine antigen, the fusion antigen and LTB protein pentamer are combined to form a hexamer structure, so that not only can the structure basis and activity of an LT mucosa adjuvant be remained, but also the toxicity can be removed, the immune response of organism muscosa can be effectively induced through immunity of mucosa path, to generate specific IgA antibody. The recombinant helicobacter pylori protein vaccine provides a vaccine manner for preventing and treating infection of helicobacter pylori.

A method for introducing and expressing genes in animal cells is disclosed comprising infecting the animal cells with live invasive bacteria, wherein the bacteria contain a eukaryotic expression cassette encoding the gene. The gene may encode, e.g., a vaccine antigen, a therapeutic agent, an immunoregulatory agent or an anti-sense RNA or a catalytic RNA.

The invention discloses a genetic engineering subunit vaccine for a porcine circovirus as well as a preparation method and application of the genetic engineering subunit vaccine. By cloning the nucleocapsid protein of the novel porcine circovirus 3 (PCV3), a PCV-Cap protein with higher purity is successfully expressed by using an escherichia coli or baculovirus expression system. The subunit vaccine for the PCV3 is successfully developed for the first time by using the PCV-Cap protein; the prepared vaccine is high in antigen purity, good in safety and strong in immunogenicity, and has no pathogenicity to pigs and other animals; the antigen has good solubility in a neutral PH buffer solution; furthermore, the preparation method is simple and low in cost, thus being suitable for large-scaleindustrial production; an effective and powerful means is provided for the prevention and control of novel PCV, and the genetic engineering subunit vaccine has a wide application prospect in the fieldof the prevention and control of the PCV3.

The invention relates to a preparation method of a novel oil-free adjuvant (adjuvant 605) compound and an application of the novel oil-free adjuvant in veterinary vaccines. The adjuvant prepared by using the method provided by the invention is capable of completely taking the place of mineral oil adjuvants and alumina gel adjuvants for inactivated vaccine production; the adjuvant can be completely absorbed by organisms within short time without residual; the adjuvant is low in side reaction, and capable of improving the safety of vaccines, and simultaneously simplifying the vaccine production process and reducing the vaccine production cost. The adjuvant prepared by using the method provided by the invention can be also taken as live vaccine diluting protection liquid, and has the characteristics of protecting the biological activity of the vaccine antigen, enhancing the immune effect of the vaccine, prolonging the persistent period of the vaccine antibody and the like.

Compositions are provided which include hyaluronic acid derivatives in combination with vaccine antigens, and optionally adjuvants, for mucosal delivery. Also provided are methods of making the compositions, as well as methods of immunization using the same.

The invention relates to a mucosal surface antigen which is used to promote and increase in the immune response against co-administered antigens in the formulations out line in the invention. Said novel formulations are obtained from the dual use of the surface antigen as an immunostimulatory agent and, at the same time, as a vaccine antigen. In this way it is possible to obtain multiple formulations of the hepatitis B surface antigen and heterologous antigens, with immunogenicity levels similar to those obtained following parenteral administration and with a reduction in components that can dispense with the use of nasal adjuvants, thereby converting same antigens into elements that can promote an increase in the response to the other co-administered antigens. Said novel use of the hepatitis B virus surface antigen and the resulting antigen formulations can be used in the pharmaceutical industry as therapeutic and preventive vaccine formulations.

The present invention relates to the identification of a subunit vaccine to prevent or treat infection of Epstein Barr Virus. In particular, EBNA-1 was identified as a vaccine antigen. In a specific embodiment, a purified protein corresponding to EBNA-1 elicited a strong CD4⁺ T cell response. The responsive CD4⁺ T cell are primarily T_H1 in function. EBNA-1 is an attractive candidate for a protective vaccine against EBV, and for immunotherapy of EBV infection and neoplasms, particularly with dendritic cells charged with EBNA-1.

The invention provides a novel coronavirus mutant strain S protein and a subunit vaccine thereof. The novel coronavirus mutant strain S protein is characterized in that a furin cleavage site 682-RRAR-685 between an S1 subunit and an S2 subunit of the novel coronavirus mutant strain S protein is replaced with a flexible protein linker; the linker is (GGCAGCGCCAGC), or (GGCGGCGGCAGC)n, or (GGCGGCGGCGGCAGC)n, or (GGC)n, or the linker is GSAS or (GGGS)n or (GGGGS)n or (G) n, n is greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to 3, and n is an integer; and the amino acid sequence of the novel coronavirus mutant strain S protein is as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 or as shown in SEQ ID NO: 4. The S protein has great potential as a vaccine antigen for coping with an SARS-CoV-2 mutant strain.

In order to configure a microneedle to be more suitable for administering a vaccine antigen, the present invention is a formulation having a dissolving-type microspike which is used as a microneedle in which a vaccine antigen is stabilized, and which includes a vaccine antigen, an ionic polymer base material, and at least one species selected from the group consisting of a non-reducing sugar, a sugar alcohol, cyclodextrin, and a surfactant.