Chemistry: natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; – Peptides of 3 to 100 amino acid residues – 25 or more amino acid residues in defined sequence
Patent
1994-10-06
2000-03-14
Nucker, Christine M.
Chemistry: natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins;
Peptides of 3 to 100 amino acid residues
25 or more amino acid residues in defined sequence
530325, 530326, 530327, 530328, 530350, 530826, 4242191, A61K 3816
Patent
active
060374489
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This application is a Rule 371 filing of PCT/CA93/00014, filed Jan. 20, 1993.
FIELD OF INVENTION
The present invention relates to the development of synthetic vaccines against rubella viral infection. Particularly, the invention is related to the use of human T-helper determinants (THDs) and B-cell viral neutralization epitopes (BEs) from the rubella virus structural proteins E1, E2 and C, and their combination with other synthetic lipopeptides containing cytotoxic T-lymphocytes (CTL) epitopes to produce novel synthetic vaccine candidates, which can elicit neutralizing antibodies and a cell-mediated immune response against rubella virus.
BACKGROUND TO THE INVENTION
Rubella (German measles) is usually a benign childhood infection, but rubella virus (RV) can cause a persistent infection of the brain called progressive rubella panencephalitis (ref. 40,51--the literature references are listed at the end of the specification). RV has been isolated from synovial cells of some patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (ref. 8,13). Several live attenuated rubella vaccines have been introduced since 1969 (ref. 2,41). Immunization of infants and susceptible women of child-bearing age against rubella virus is now a standard public health measure. However, there are serious medical concerns with the use of live attenuated rubella virus vaccine for routine immunization. These concerns include the risk of congenital infection of the fetus resulting in diabetis-related diseases (ref. 44) and rubella-associated arthritis following rubella vaccination (ref. 8,47), as well as the possibility of re-infection of vaccinees by wild-type RV due to antigenic differences between wild-type and vaccine virus strains (ref. 11,21). In addition to these problems, rubella virus grows to a relatively low titer in tissue cultures and its structural proteins are difficult to purify (ref. 27). Therefore, there is a clear requirement for preparing a non-infectious rubella vaccine by alternative means, such as recombinant DNA technology and peptides synthesis. Research efforts have recently focused on characterizing both the viral genome and the host immune responses.
RV is the sole member of the genus Rubivirus in the Togavirus family (ref. 29). The primary sequences of the rubella virus structural proteins decoded from cDNA clones have been reported (ref. 10). The RV virion contains an RNA genome enclosed within an icosahedral capsid composed of multiple copies of a basic capsid protein C of 33 kDa (ref. 38). Surrounding this nucleocapsid is a lipid bilayer in which viral glycoproteins E1 (58 kDa) and E2 (42 to 47 kDa) are embedded (ref. 38,43). Glycoprotein El has been shown to contain hemagglutinin and virus neutralization epitopes (ref. 50). The data accumulated to date suggest that none of these E1 neutralization epitopes is appropriate for use in a vaccine against RV since they failed to elicit high-titer neutralizing antibody responses against RV in animal studies. E2-specific antibodies are capable of neutralizing viral infection in vitro (ref. 17). However, neutralization epitopes of the E2 protein have not yet been mapped.
Studies have been carried out to characterize the specificity of the antibody response against rubella virus. The RV-specific IgM response is widely used for the diagnosis of recent rubella virus infection (ref. 19,37), and the production of RV-specific IgA antibodies has been shown to be important in the prevention of reinfection (ref. 19). Most of the RV-specific IgM antibodies react with the E1 protein while most of the IgA antibodies react with the C protein (ref. 42). IgG antibody responses can be elicited by all the structural proteins (ref. 30,42).
There is little known about the cellular immune response to RV structural proteins, although both T-helper cell proliferation (ref. 4, 22 to 24, 28, 49) and cytolytic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses (ref. 49) can be detected during viral infection. Studies cited above have neither identified the T-helper determinants nor the CTL epitopes of the rubella stru
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Chong Pele
Gillam Shirley
Ou Dawei
Tingle Aubrey
Connaught Laboratories Limited
Nucker Christine M.
Stucker Jeffrey
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