Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and composition (including immunologic composition such as vaccine) targeting prevention and treatment of AIDS. SOLUTION: The presence of cytotoxic T-cells to the Rev and/or Tat protein in samples from a subject infected with immunodeficiency virus, particularly HIV in humans, is an indication of a stable disease condition and a favorable prognosis of lack of progression of disease. Immunogenic compositions containing at least one cytotoxic T-cell epitope of the Rev and/or Tat protein of an immunodeficiency virus, particularly HIV, or a vector encoding the T-cell epitope, may be used to prevent infection by disease caused by the immunodeficiency virus, by inducing, in the host, a specific cytotoxic T-cell response specific for the respective Rev and/or Tat proteins. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide nucleic-acid probes that can be used in hybridization techniques for the detection of chromosomal aberrations and other gene rearrangements, for example, such as immunoglobulin (Ig) and T cell receptor (TCR) gene rearrangements. SOLUTION: A pair of nucleic-acid probes detects at least one chromosomal aberration in interphase nuclei by in-situ hybridization. Each of the nucleic-acid probes hybridizes to a sequence such that the pair of nucleic-acid probes would flank a potential breakpoint in a chromosome upon hybridization to the chromosome and the pair of nucleic-acid probes would not overlap with a breakpoint cluster region in the chromosome. The pair of nucleic-acid probes is configured such that each of the nucleic-acid probes hybridizes at a genomic distance of ≤100 kb between the nucleic-acid probes resulting in colocalization of the reporter molecule signals if no chromosome aberration is present. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT