| 20110262469 | MALARIA VACCINE BASED ON FRAGMENTS AND COMBINATION OF FRAGMENTS OF THE CS PROTEIN OF PLASMODIUM VIVAX - The invention relates to a recombinant or synthetic polypeptide characterised in that it includes at least three consecutive repetitions of nonapeptide A N G A G X1 Q X2 X3, in which X1 is selected from D and N, X2 is selected from P and A and X2 is selected from G and A. The inventive polypeptide also preferably includes at least two (2) consecutive repetitions of sequence GDRADGQPA and in an even more preferable embodiment the polypeptide includes an amino-terminal region, a C-terminal region and/or the ptt30 fragment. The invention also relates to malaria vaccines characterised in that they include said peptides. | 10-27-2011 |
