US 7,537,767 B2
Melan-A- carrier conjugates
Martin F. Bachmann, Seuzach (Switzerland); Vania Manolova, Zurich (Switzerland); Edwin Meijerink, Zurich (Switzerland); Karl G. Proba, Zurich (Switzerland); and Katrin Schwartz, Schlieren (Switzerland)
Assigned to Cytis Biotechnology AG, (Switzerland)
Appl. No. 10/551,054
PCT Filed Mar. 25, 2004, PCT No. PCT/EP2004/003164
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Sep. 23, 2005,
PCT Pub. No. WO2004/085635, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 07, 2004.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/457348, filed on Mar. 26, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2006/0204475 A1, Sep. 14, 2006
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61K 39/00 (2006.01); A61K 39/12 (2006.01); A61K 39/385 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 424—185.1  [424/196.11; 424/277.1] 58 Claims
 
1. A composition comprising:
(a) a virus-like particle;
(b) at least one immunostimulatory substance;
(i) wherein said immunostimulatory substance is an immunostimulatory nucleic acid; and
(ii) wherein said immunostimulatory substance is packaged into said virus-like particle; and
(c) at least one antigen or antigenic determinant;
(i) wherein said antigen or antigenic determinant is bound to said virus-like particle; and
(ii) wherein said antigen or antigenic determinant comprises a human melanoma MelanA peptide analogue that comprises an amino acid sequence derived from the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:78 or SEQ ID NO:79 by alteration of one or two amino acid(s) or amino acid derivative(s) in said amino acid sequence, wherein said alteration comprises an amino acid substitution, deletion or insertion or a combination thereof.