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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2008
Applicants:
Yasuharu Nishimura, Kumamoto, JP;
Kazunori Yokomine, Kumamoto, JP;
Takuya Tsunoda, Kanagawa, JP;
Yusuke Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Yasuharu Nishimura, Kumamoto, JP;
Kazunori Yokomine, Kumamoto, JP;
Takuya Tsunoda, Kanagawa, JP;
Yusuke Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
OncoTherapy Science, Inc., Kanagawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 38/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An objective of the present invention is to provide a means for enabling cancer immunotherapy that targets approximately 30% of various cancer patients that highly express forkhead box M1 (FOXM1) among the Japanese, by identifying FOXM1-derived peptides that can activate cancer cell-damaging human killer T cells by binding to HLA-A2. The present invention provides a peptide of (A) or (B) below: