Patent classifications
C07K16/084
CUTANEOUS PAPILLOMA VIRUS VACCINE
The present invention relates to an immunogenic polypeptide comprising a multitude of papillomavirus (PV) L2 N-terminal peptides corresponding to amino acids 20 to 50 of the L2 polypeptide of HPV16, wherein said HPV L2 N-terminal peptides are L2 N-terminal peptides from at least four different cutaneous HPV genotypes; and to the aforesaid immunogenic polypeptide for use in medicine and for use in vaccination of a subject against cutaneous HPV infection and/or mucosal HPV infection. The present invention further relates to a polynucleotide encoding the aforesaid immunogenic polypeptide and to vectors, host cells, methods for producing an antibody, as well as antibodies related thereto.
Bispecific molecules that are immunoreactive with immune effector cells that express an activating receptor and an antigen expressed by a cell infected by a virus and uses thereof
The present invention relates to bispecific molecules that are capable of localizing an immune effector cell that expresses an activating receptor to a virally infected cell, so as to thereby facilitate the killing of the virally infected cell. In a preferred embodiment, such localization is accomplished using bispecific molecules that are immunoreactive with an activating receptor of an immune effector cell and to an antigen expressed by a cell infected with a virus wherein the antigen is detectably present on the cell infected with the virus at a level that is greater than the level at which the antigen is detected on the virus by the bispecific molecules, and to the use of such bispecific molecules in the treatment of latent viral infections.
POLYOMAVIRUS NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODIES
The present invention relates to anti-VP1 antibodies, antibody fragments, and their uses for the prevention and treatment of polyoma virus infection and associated diseases.
VIRUS-LIKE PARTICLE CONJUGATES FOR DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF TUMORS
The present disclosure is directed to methods and compositions for the diagnosis and/or treatment of tumors, such as ocular tumors, using virus-like particles conjugated to photosensitive molecules.
Polyomavirus neutralizing antibodies
The present invention relates to anti-VP1 antibodies, antibody fragments, and their uses for the prevention and treatment of polyoma virus infection and associated diseases.
POLYPEPTIDE VACCINE
We provide a polypeptide vaccine for treatment and prevention of cancer, particularly prevention of metastasis of cancer. Also provided are methods of treating or preventing cancer, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the polypeptide vaccine.
HUMAN PAPILLOMA VIRUS DETECTION
The invention is a self-administered urine based lateral flow immunoassay that detects the presence of an HPV oncogene and thus the presence in a test subject of HPV.
Virus-like particle conjugates for diagnosis and treatment of tumors
The present disclosure is directed to methods and compositions for the diagnosis and/or treatment of tumors, such as ocular tumors, using virus-like particles conjugated to photosensitive molecules.
T CELLS AGAINST HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS
Recombinant T cell clonotypes are provided that express T cell receptor alpha and T cell receptor beta polypeptides with specificity for human papillomavirus (HPV) type 16 E6 protein and that amplify in response to a therapeutic vaccine and traffic to ovarian lesional tissue in a patient whose HPV lesions regressed in response to the vaccine. Recombinant T cells expressing appropriate TCR alpha and beta complimentarity determining sequences for HPV 16 E6 binding and treating HPV-cased cancers are provided. Bifunctional proteins having TCR alpha and beta segments that bind to HPV 16 E6 residues 91-115 and a single chain Fv anti-CD3 antibody domain are provided. These bifunctional proteins can direct T cells to HPV-infected cells.
RECOMBINANT HUMAN ANTIBODIES FOR THERAPY AND PREVENTION OF POLYOMAVIRUS-RELATED DISEASES
Provided are novel human-derived antibodies specifically recognizing polyomavirus polypeptides, preferably capable of binding to polyomaviruses of the type of JC virus (JCV) and/or BK virus (BKV) as well as methods related thereto. Furthermore, assays and kits related to antibodies specific for polyomaviruses, polyomavirus VP1 and or polyomavirus VP1 Virus-Like Particles (VLPs), preferably of the type of JCV and/or BKV, are disclosed. The human-derived antibodies as well as binding fragments, derivatives and variants thereof can be used in pharmaceutical and diagnostic compositions for polyomavirus targeted immunotherapy and diagnostics.