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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 1991
Filed:
Nov. 13, 1989
Malcolm L Gefter, Weston, MA (US);
Jean G Guillet, Paris, FR;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
Novel methods or compositions are provided for modulating the immune system, so as to be able to selectively stimulate or inactivate lymphocytes in relation to a particular transplantation antigen content. Particularly, mixtures may be employed associated with the more common transplanatation antigens of a host population. In this manner, a large number of people can be treated, for example, by immunization, stimulation of particular T-cells or B-cells in relation to a pathogenic invasion of other aberrant state, e.g. neoplasia, treatment of autoimmune diseases, and the like. Particularly, the compositions may involve an oligopeptide involving as a first region a consensus sequence and an epitope or the first region may be joined to a second region comprising an antibody target sequence which is capable of competing with an epitopic site of an antigen of interest.