Drug – bio-affecting and body treating compositions – Antigen – epitope – or other immunospecific immunoeffector – Bacterium or component thereof or substance produced by said...
Reexamination Certificate
1995-06-07
2001-06-26
Swart, Rodney P. (Department: 1645)
Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
Antigen, epitope, or other immunospecific immunoeffector
Bacterium or component thereof or substance produced by said...
C424S001730, C424S009200, C424S009340, C424S093200, C424S134100, C424S165100, C424S184100, C424S185100, C424S192100, C424S193100, C424S197110, C424S200100, C424S203100, C424S237100, C424S244100, C424S248100, C424S828000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06251405
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to compositions for eliciting an immunological response in a host, animal or human, and methods for making and using the same. The invention further relates to such compositions and methods wherein the composition comprises an antigen and a lipoprotein adsorbed to an adjuvant. More preferably, the lipoprotein is also antigenic or immunogenic, and thus the composition can be a combination, multivalent or “cocktail” composition. Accordingly, the invention also relates to co-administration of an antigen and lipoprotein in a composition which can include additional ingredients, such as an adjuvant.
The lipoprotein can be a naturally occurring lipoprotein or a recombinant lipoprotein. The recombinant lipoprotein can be from expression by a vector of homologous sequences for the lipidated and protein portions of the lipoprotein, i.e., the sequences for the lipidation and protein can naturally occur together. In such a recombinant lipoprotein, the lipidation thereof can be from expression of a first nucleic acid sequence and the protein thereof can be from expression of a second nucleic acid sequence, wherein the first and second nucleic acid sequences, which do not naturally occur together, and such sequences can be expressed as a contiguous lipoprotein. Thus, the invention relates to compositions and methods involving administration of lipoproteins, including recombinant lipoproteins; and the recombinant lipoproteins can be similar to native proteins, or novel hybrid proteins.
The invention further relates to the aforementioned compositions for eliciting an immunological response and methods for making and using the same wherein the lipoprotein is recombinantly expressed lipoprotein from expression of such aforementioned first and second nucleic acid sequences wherein the first nucleic acid sequence encodes a Borrelia lipoprotein leader sequence; preferably such a recombinant lipidated protein expressed using the nucleic acid sequence encoding the OspA leader sequence. In a preferred embodiment the lipoprotein can be OspA; and thus, the invention also relates to recombinant OspA and uses thereof the compositions and methods.
The invention additionally generally relates to nucleic acid sequences encoding the recombinant lipoproteins, vectors containing and/or expressing the sequences, methods for expressing the lipoproteins and methods for making the nucleic acid sequences and vectors; compositions employing the lipoproteins, including immunogenic or vaccine compositions, such compositions preferably having improved immunogenicity; and methods of using such compositions to elicit an immunological or protective response.
Several publications are referenced in this application. Full citation to these references is found at the end of the specification immediately preceding the claims or where the publication is mentioned; and each of these publications is hereby incorporated herein by reference.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Immunogenicity can be significantly improved if an antigen is co-administered with an adjuvant, commonly used as 0.001% to 50% solution in phosphate buffered saline. Adjuvants enhance the immunogenicity of an antigen but are not necessarily immunogenic themselves. Adjuvants may act by retaining the antigen locally near the site of administration to produce a depot effect facilitating a slow, sustained release of antigen to cells of the immune system. Adjuvants can also attract cells of the immune system to an antigen depot and stimulate such cells to elicit immune responses.
Immunostimulatory agents or adjuvants have been used for many years to improve the host immune response to, for example, vaccines. Intrinsic adjuvants, such as lipopolysaccarides, normally are the components of the killed or attenuated bacteria used as vaccines. Extrinsic adjuvants are immunomodulators which are typically non-covalently linked to antigens and are formulated to enhance the host immune response. Aluminum hydroxide and aluminum phosphate (collectively commonly referred to as alum) are routinely used as adjuvants in human and veterinary vaccines. The efficacy of alum in increasing antibody responses to diphtheria and tetanus toxoids is well established and, more recently, a HBsAg vaccine has been adjuvanted with alum.
A wide range of extrinsic adjuvants can provoke potent immune responses to antigens. These include saponins complexed to membrane protein antigens (immune stimulating complexes), pluronic polymers with mineral oil, killed mycobacteria in mineral oil, Freund's complete adjuvant, bacterial products, such as muramyl dipeptide (MDP) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS), as well as lipid A, and liposomes. To efficiently induce humoral immune response (HIR) and cell-mediated immunity (CMI), immunogens are preferably emulsified in adjuvants.
Desirable characteristics of ideal adjuvants include any or all of:
(1) lack of toxicity;
(2) ability to stimulate a long-lasting immune response;
(3) simplicity of manufacture and stability in long-term storage;
(4) ability to elicit both CMI and HIR to antigens administered by various routes;
(5) synergy with other adjuvants;
(6) capability of selectively interacting with populations of antigen presenting cells (APC);
(7) ability to specifically elicit appropriate T
H
1 or T
H
2 cell-specific immune responses; and
(8) ability to selectively increase appropriate antibody isotype levels (for example IgA) against antigens.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,855,283 granted to Lockhoff et al. on Aug. 8, 1989 which is incorporated herein by reference thereto teaches glycolipid analogs including N-glycosylamides, N-glycosylureas and N-glycosylcarbamates, each of which is substituted in the sugar residue by an amino acid, as immune-modulators or adjuvants. Thus, Lockhoff et al. (U.S. Pat. No. 4,855,283) reported that N-glycolipids analogs displaying structural similarities to the naturally occurring glycolipids, such as glycosphingolipids and glycoglycerolipids, are capable of eliciting strong immune responses in both herpes simplex virus vaccine and pseudorabies virus vaccine. Some glycolipids have been synthesized from long chain alkylamines and fatty acids that are linked directly with the sugar through the anomeric carbon atom, to mimic the functions of the naturally occurring lipid residues.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,258,029 granted to Moloney, assigned to Connaught Laboratories Limited and incorporated herein by reference thereto, teaches that octadecyl tyrosine hydrochloride (OTH) functions as an adjuvant when complexed with tetanus toxoid and formalin inactivated type I, II and III poliomyelitis virus vaccine. Octodecyl esters of aromatic amino acids complexed with a recombinant hepatitis B surface antigen, enhanced the host immune responses against hepatitis B virus.
Bessler et al., “Synthetic lipopeptides as novel adjuvants,” in the 44th Forum In Immunology (1992) at page 548 et seq., especially at 548-550, incorporated herein by reference, is directed to employing lipopeptides as adjuvants when given in combination with an antigen. The lipopeptides typically had P3C as the lipidated moiety and up to about only 5 amino acids, e.g., P3C-SG, P3C-SK4, P3C-SS, P3C-SSNA, P3C-SSNA. The lipopeptide was coupled with or added to only certain antigens or to non-immunogenic proteins, such as P3C-SSNA supplementing
S. typhimurium
vaccine, PC3-SS coupled to VP1(135-154) of foot-and-mouth disease, PC3-SG-OSu coupled to non-immunogenic protein hirudin, P3C-SK coupled to FITC or DNP or P3C-SG coupled to a metabolite from
Streptomyces venezuelae.
While adjuvant mixing and conjugating procedures of Bessler can be employed in the practice of the present invention, Bessler fails to teach or suggest employing a lipoprotein with an antigen in a composition, especially such a composition additionally containing an adjuvant, and more especially such compositions wherein the lipoprotein is also antigenic, or the immunological combination compositions and methods of this invention.
In this regard, a distinction between a peptide, esp
Becker Robert S.
Biscardi Karen S.
Gray Maryann B.
Huebner Robert C.
Connaught Laboratories Inc.
McDonnell & Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff
Swart Rodney P.
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