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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2010
Applicants:
Carl Gustav Figdor, Hertogenbosch, NL;
Gosse Jan Adema, Groesbeek, NL;
Inventors:
Carl Gustav Figdor, Hertogenbosch, NL;
Gosse Jan Adema, Groesbeek, NL;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 39/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention is concerned with cancer treatment and diagnosis, especially with melanoma associated peptide analogues with improved immunogenicity, epitopes thereof; vaccines against melanoma, tumor infiltrating T lymphocytes recognizing the antigen and diagnostics for the detection of melanoma and for the monitoring of vaccination. The peptides according to the invention can be exploited to elicit native epitope-reactive Cm. Usage of the peptides with improved immunogenicity may contribute to the development of CTL-epitope based vaccines in viral disease and cancer.