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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2001
Xavier Nassif, Paris, FR;
Colin Tinsley, Paris, FR;
Xavier Nassif, Paris, FR;
Colin Tinsley, Paris, FR;
Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (I.N.S.E.R.M.), Paris, FR;
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung des Wessenschaften E.V., Munich, DE;
Smithkline Beecham, Brentford, GB;
Abstract
The DNA of the invention are characterised in that they concern the whole or part of genes, with their reading frame, to be found in, but not in, or inexcept the genes involved in the biosynthesis of the polysaccharide capsule, frp A, frp C, opc, por A, rotamase the sequence IC1106, IgA protease, pilline, pilC, transferrin binding proteins and opacity proteins. The invention also concerns the polypeptides corresponding to these DNA and the antibodies directed against these polypeptides. It is applicable in the prevention and the detection of meningococcus induced infections and meningitis.