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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 1998
Filed:
May. 31, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07H / ; C07H / ; C12P / ; A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
536 234 ; 536 237 ; 435 691 ; 435 693 ; 435 697 ; 4351721 ; 4351723 ; 4242351 ;
Abstract
New immunological carrier systems, DNA encoding the same, and the use of these systems, are disclosed. The carrier systems include chimeric proteins which comprise a leukotoxin polypeptide fused to a selected antigen. The leukotoxin functions to increase the immunogenicity of the antigen fused thereto.