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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 01, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
David A Relman, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Mario Domenighini, 53100 Siena, IT;
Rino Rappuoli, Quercegrossa, 53100 Siena, IT;
Stanley Falkow, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; G01N / ; C12P / ; C12P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
4242531 ; 4242531 ; 435-71 ; 435 691 ; 435 693 ; 435 911 ; 4352523 ; 4352531 ; 435320 ; 4353251 ; 536 221 ; 536 231 ; 536 237 ; 536 2432 ; 53612432 ;
Abstract
Nucleic acid and protein compositions are provided from B. pertussis which may find use in diagnosis, prevention and therapy of whooping cough. Particularly, an open reading frame encoding filamentous hemagglutinin precursors provided, with the intact protein for the filamentous hemagglutinin portion thereof, can be expressed in a wide variety of hosts, for use in the production of antibodies, for immunodiagnosis or therapy, or as vaccines for prophylactic purposes.