CONJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND IMMUNOGENT ANTIGINS AND SYNTHETIC PEPTIDATE TRACTORS AND IMPACT SUBSTANCES

摘要

The invention relates to conjugates of poorly immunogenic antigens, e.g. peptides, proteins and polysaccharides, with a synthetic peptide carrier constituting a T cell epitope derived from the sequence of human heat shock protein hsp65, or an analog thereof, said peptide or analog being capable of increasing substantially the immunogenicity of the poorly immunogenic antigen. Suitable peptides according to the invention are Pep278h, which corresponds to positions 458-474 of human hsp65, and Pep II, which corresponds to positions 437-448 of human hsp65, but in which two cysteine residues at positions 442 and 447 are replaced serine residues.