Smithkline Beckman Corporation

Merck + Co., Inc.

Robert D Sitrin

Kenneth M Snader

Marcia C Shearer

Mark S Rienstra

Joseph R Valenta

Betty A Bowie

David J Newman

Gail F Wasserman

Edgar M Scattergood

Thomas O Lindsey

Dennis J Kubek

Richard D Hedde

Ann L Lee

Qinjian Zhao

Walter E Manger

George W Chan

David P Gervais

Akella Venkateswarlu

V Arjuna Rao

Anil K Goel

Juan Gimenez

Ashok K Verma

Dicky G Abraham

The present invention provides an improved rHBsAg that exhibits a higher antigenicity and immunogenicity than that previously known in the art. A method of making the improved rHBsAg is also provided. The improved HBsAg is used to provide vaccines with lower amounts of active ingredient, vaccines with higher immunogenicity and combination vaccines which produce and protective immunization against infection by hepatitis B virus and other infectious agents.

Recombinant hepatitis B surface antigen

A process for converting lipid-containing bacterial capsular polysaccharide, such as lipo-polyribosyl ribitol phosphate, lipo-PRP, into lipid-free, endotoxin-free polysaccharide, such as polyribosyl ribitol phosphate, PRP, by solubilizing polysaccharide-containing powder derived from culture media of bacteria, such as Haemophilus influenzae type b, cleaving covalently bound fatty acids from the polysaccharide, and removing the lipids, and endotoxin.

Process for converting lipid-containing bacterial capsular

Recombinant hepatitis B virus surface proteins produced in recombinant host cells are rapidly and efficiently purified from either cell extracts in a high pH buffer, or from heated whole cells at neutral pH. The host cell extracts or whole cells are heat treated, cooled and in the case of high pH extract, the pH is reduced. The surface proteins are then absorbed onto wide pore silica followed by elution and concentration. This method eliminates the requisite introduction of protease inhibitors, stabilizes the surface protein and improves product yield.

Method of stabilizing recombinant hepatitis B virus surface proteins

A process for removing endotoxin from Gram-negative polysaccharides such as polyribosylribitol phosphate by solubilizing polysaccharide-containing powder derived from Gram-negative bacteria fermentation broth to provide a divalent counter ion for endotoxin and adding alcohol incrementally to induce lipopolysaccharide precipition, and mixing material resulting from the alcohol addition with a nonionic resin, a detergent and a chelating agent.

Process for removing bacterial endotoxin from gram-negative

Carboxamide derivatives of glcopeptide antibiotics and their salts are useful for treating or preventing infection in an animal by gram-positive bacteria and also increase feed-utilization efficiency, promote growth in domestic animals and increase propionate production in lactating ruminants.

Carboxamide derivatives of glycopeptides

A novel antibiotic complex of 'vancomycin-like' antibiotics, AAD 216 complex, is produced by the cultivation of a fermentation broth containing Kibdelosporangium aridum Shearer gen. nov., sp. nov. ATCC 39323 microorganisms in an aqueous nutrient medium under submerged aerobic conditions. The AAD 216 complex and its major bioactive components; AAD 216A, AAD 216B, and AAD 216C exhibit antibiotic activity and growth promotant activity.

Antibiotics produced by Kibdelosporangium aridum Shearer gen. nov., sp.

A novel process for the isolation and purification of vancomycin class antibiotics which utilized affinity chromatography by the formation of a sorption complex between the antibiotic and an immobilizing ligand selected from -D-alanyl-D-alanine or -X-D-alanyl-D-alanine, wherein X is an amino acid radical and the novel affinity chromatography sorbent employed therein are disclosed.

Affinity chromatography sorbent

Novel glycopeptide antibiotics of the CWI-785 complex are produced by the Actinomycete SKF-CWI-785.

Glycopeptide antibiotics

Process for the preparation of purified vancomycin class antibiotics

A novel antibiotic complex of 'Vancomycin-like' antibiotics, AAD 216 complex, is produced by the cultivation of a fermentation broth containing Kibdelosporangium aridum Shearer gen. nov., sp. nov. ATCC 39323 microorganisms in an aqueous nutrient medium under submerged aerobic conditions. The AAD 216 complex and its major bioactive components; AAD 216A, AAD 216B, and AAD 216C exhibit antibiotic activity and growth promotant activity.

Antibiotics produced by Kibdelosporangium aridum shearer

Novel aglycone and pseudo-aglycones of the AAD 216 antibiotics are prepared by partial acid hydrolysis of the AAD 216 antibiotic complex or its individual factor antibiotics. AAD 216 aglycone, AAD 216 pseudo-aglycone and AAD 216A pseudo-aglycone, AAD 216B pseudo-aglycone and AAD 216C pseudo-aglycone exhibit antibacterial activity and are useful in animal health applications.

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Robert D Sitrin