Peptides useful in vaccination against enteroviruses
US4857634A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 24, 1987 |
| Grant date | Aug 15, 1989 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 24, 2007 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02A50/30
- WIPO fieldPharmaceuticals
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A synthetic peptide, suitable for use in vaccination against or diagnosis of a disease caused by an enterovirus and especially by a poliovirus, is the peptide coded for by codons 286-290 in the RNA sequence coding for the structural capsid protein VP1 of poliovirus type 3 Sabin strain or by equivalent codons of another enterovirus or is an antigenic equivalent thereof, the numbers of the codons being counted from the 5'-terminus of the nucleotide sequence coding for the VP1 capsid protein.
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