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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. 01, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2001
Applicant:
David J. Fitzgerald, Rockville, MD (US);
Inventor:
David J. FitzGerald, Rockville, MD (US);
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 39/02 (2006.01); C12N 15/09 (2006.01); C07K 14/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention provides chimeric proteins comprising a non-toxicexotoxin A sequence and a Type IV pilin loop sequence, wherein the Type IV loop sequence is inserted within the non-toxicexotoxin A. The invention also provides polynucleotides encoding the chimeric proteins, and compositions comprising the polynucleotides or the chimeric proteins. The invention also provides methods for using the chimeric proteins, polynucleotides and compositions of the invention.