Chemistry: natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; – Proteins – i.e. – more than 100 amino acid residues – Chemical modification or the reaction product thereof – e.g.,...
Patent
1994-04-12
1997-10-28
LeGuyader, John L.
Chemistry: natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins;
Proteins, i.e., more than 100 amino acid residues
Chemical modification or the reaction product thereof, e.g.,...
530324, 530350, 435 691, 435 693, 4351723, 4352523, 4353201, 536 231, 536 237, C07K 1420, C12N 1531
Patent
active
056819340
ABSTRACT:
The present disclosure provides the complete primary amino acid, and underlying DNA, sequence for the 47-kilodalton membrane immunogen of Treponema pallidum, subsp. pallidum. The sequence was obtained by using a combined strategy of DNA sequencing of the cloned gene as well as confirmatory N-terminal amino acid sequencing of the native antigen. An open reading frame corresponding to the 47-kDa antigen was comprised of 434 amino acid codons. This open reading frame contained a typical 19 amino acid hydrophobic leader peptide flanked by a consensus sequence of Val-Val-Gly-Cys for signal peptidase II, the lipoprotein-specific signal peptidase of prokaryotes. The molecular weight of the mature molecule, excluding modification, is 45,756. Also disclosed are methods for preparing variant and mutant molecules having biologically similar attributes, as well as methods for preparing particular antigenic/immunogenic subportions of the 47-kDa protein. In particular aspects, antigenic/immunogenic subportions are identified by hydrophilicity analysis of the protein sequence. The 47-kDa antigen and antigenic subportions of the present invention can be used both as antigens in the detection of clinical materials having anti-47-kDa. Antibodies therein for reliable detection of T. pallidum infection, as well as in the preparation of vaccines for use in connection with promoting an immune state in vaccinated individuals. Also disclosed are DNA sequences which may be useful both in the preparation of second generation antigens, and as hybridization probes in the detection of pathogenic T. pallidum in clinical samples. Particular methods and embodiments are also disclosed which allow greatly improved recombinant DNA production of the 47-kDa antigen, including placement of the gene under the control of the T7 RNA polymerase promoter.
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