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Vaccines for parasitic and bacterial diseasesSteven G Reed
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Curr Opin Immunol 15:456-60. 2003..There are indications both in animal models and in patients that vaccines may be used not only to protect but also to treat leishmania infections...
Prospects for a better vaccine against tuberculosisS G Reed
Corixa Corporation, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Tuberculosis (Edinb) 83:213-9. 2003..Thus, there is renewed optimism for the potential of developing new and improved TB vaccines...
Identification of human T cell antigens for the development of vaccines against Mycobacterium tuberculosisSylvie Bertholet
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle WA 98104, USA
J Immunol 181:7948-57. 2008..This study identified numerous novel human T cell Ags suitable to be included in subunit vaccines against tuberculosis...
Optimized subunit vaccine protects against experimental leishmaniasisSylvie Bertholet
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Vaccine 27:7036-45. 2009..This study establishes the immunogenicity and protective efficacy of the improved Leish-110f subunit vaccine antigen adjuvanted with natural (MPL-SE) or synthetic (EM005) Toll-like receptor 4 agonists...
Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis vaccine candidates using human CD4+ T-cells expression cloningRhea N Coler
The Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia St, Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98104, United States
Vaccine 27:223-33. 2009..8 formulated in either AS02A or AS01B Adjuvant Systems. These results demonstrate that T-cell screening of the Mtb genome can be used to identify CD4+ T-cell antigens that are candidates for vaccine development...
Protection of mice and guinea pigs against tuberculosis induced by immunization with a single Mycobacterium tuberculosis recombinant antigen, MTB41Yasir A W Skeiky
Corixa Corporation, Seattle, WA, USA
Vaccine 23:3937-45. 2005....
Vaccination with the ML0276 antigen reduces local inflammation but not bacterial burden during experimental Mycobacterium leprae infectionVanitha S Raman
Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia St, Suite 400, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Infect Immun 77:5623-30. 2009....
Enhanced humoral and Type 1 cellular immune responses with Fluzone adjuvanted with a synthetic TLR4 agonist formulated in an emulsionSusan L Baldwin
Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia Street, Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98104, United States
Vaccine 27:5956-63. 2009....
Immunomodulatory and physical effects of phospholipid composition in vaccine adjuvant emulsionsChristopher B Fox
Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia St, Ste 400, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
AAPS PharmSciTech 13:498-506. 2012....
Leish-111f, a recombinant polyprotein vaccine that protects against visceral Leishmaniasis by elicitation of CD4+ T cellsRhea N Coler
Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia St, Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Infect Immun 75:4648-54. 2007..The Leish-111f+MPL-SE product we report here is the first defined vaccine for leishmaniasis in human clinical trials and has completed phase 1 and 2 safety and immunogenicity testing in normal, healthy human subjects...
Physicochemical characterization and biological activity of synthetic TLR4 agonist formulationsRyan C Anderson
Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia St, Ste 400, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 75:123-32. 2010....
Protective immunization against visceral leishmaniasis using Leishmania sterol 24-c-methyltransferase formulated in adjuvantYasuyuki Goto
Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia St, Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Vaccine 25:7450-8. 2007..The results indicate that SMT/MPL-SE can be an effective vaccine candidate for use against VL...
KSAC, the first defined polyprotein vaccine candidate for visceral leishmaniasisYasuyuki Goto
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA
Clin Vaccine Immunol 18:1118-24. 2011..major, responsible for cutaneous leishmaniasis. The results demonstrate the feasibility of producing a practical, cost-effective leishmaniasis vaccine capable of protecting both humans and dogs against multiple Leishmania species...
Antigen-specific T-cell responses of leprosy patientsMalcolm S Duthie
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Clin Vaccine Immunol 15:1659-65. 2008..Our results indicate several potential candidate antigens which may be useful for either leprosy diagnosis or vaccination and demonstrate the utility of leprosy WBA that can be applied broadly in clinical or field settings...
Cloning of the gene encoding a protective Mycobacterium tuberculosis secreted protein detected in vivo during the initial phases of the infectious processSandeep Mukherjee
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
J Immunol 175:5298-305. 2005....
Leishmania infantum sterol 24-c-methyltransferase formulated with MPL-SE induces cross-protection against L. major infectionYasuyuki Goto
Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia St, Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Vaccine 27:2884-90. 2009..Mice immunized with the SMT/MPL-SE vaccine developed significantly smaller lesions following ear challenge with L. major. These results suggest that SMT is a promising vaccine antigen for multiple forms of leishmaniasis...
Vaccination with the T cell antigen Mtb 8.4 protects against challenge with Mycobacterium tuberculosisR N Coler
The Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
J Immunol 166:6227-35. 2001..tuberculosis. Thus, these results suggest that Mtb 8.4 is a potential candidate for inclusion in a subunit vaccine against TB...
The importance of adjuvant formulation in the development of a tuberculosis vaccineSusan L Baldwin
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
J Immunol 188:2189-97. 2012..These results highlight the importance of properly formulating subunit vaccines with effective adjuvants for use against tuberculosis...
Transcriptional profiling of TLR-4/7/8-stimulated guinea pig splenocytes and whole blood by bDNA assayLance K Ching
Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia Street, Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
J Immunol Methods 373:54-62. 2011..Overall, the QuantiGene platform is reliable, reproducible, and sensitive. These agonists have the potential to be used as adjuvant components in vaccines against various pathogens...
Development and characterization of synthetic glucopyranosyl lipid adjuvant system as a vaccine adjuvantRhea N Coler
Preclinical Biology, Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e16333. 2011....
Serum antibodies to lipophilin B detected in late stage breast cancer patientsDarrick Carter
Department of Tumor Antigen Discovery, Corixa Corporation, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Clin Cancer Res 9:749-54. 2003..A polymorphism identified in Lipophilin B did not appear to influence human sera reactivity. The data indicate that humoral immune responses to lipophilin B may serve as a diagnostic indicator, particularly for breast cancer...
Protective efficacy of a tandemly linked, multi-subunit recombinant leishmanial vaccine (Leish-111f) formulated in MPL adjuvantYasir A W Skeiky
Corixa Corporation, 1124 Columbia Street, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Vaccine 20:3292-303. 2002....
Defined tuberculosis vaccine, Mtb72F/AS02A, evidence of protection in cynomolgus monkeysSteven G Reed
Corixa Corporation, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:2301-6. 2009....
Differential immune responses and protective efficacy induced by components of a tuberculosis polyprotein vaccine, Mtb72F, delivered as naked DNA or recombinant proteinYasir A W Skeiky
Corixa Corp, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
J Immunol 172:7618-28. 2004..tuberculosis comparable to bacillus Calmette-Guérin immunization. Mtb72F in AS02A formulation is currently in phase I clinical trial, making it the first recombinant tuberculosis vaccine to be tested in humans...
Identification and characterization of T cell-stimulating antigens from Leishmania by CD4 T cell expression cloningP Probst
Corixa Corporation, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
J Immunol 166:498-505. 2001..Ags identified by T cells from immune donors might constitute potential vaccine candidates for leishmaniasis...
Protection against cutaneous leishmaniasis induced by recombinant antigens in murine and nonhuman primate models of the human diseaseA Campos-Neto
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Infect Immun 69:4103-8. 2001..The remarkable protection induced by LmSTI1 and TSA in an animal model that is evolutionarily close to humans qualifies this antigen combination as a promising candidate subunit vaccine against human leishmaniasis...
Effects of emulsifier concentration, composition, and order of addition in squalene-phosphatidylcholine oil-in-water emulsionsChristopher B Fox
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Pharm Dev Technol 16:511-9. 2011..Substitution of naturally derived egg phosphatidylcholine with synthetic 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC) produced an emulsion with similar physicochemical properties and stability...
Cloning, characterization, and serodiagnostic evaluation of Leishmania infantum tandem repeat proteinsYasuyuki Goto
Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia St, Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Infect Immun 74:3939-45. 2006..Our results suggest that TR regions from the novel L. infantum proteins identified in this study are immunodominant B-cell epitopes and may represent good candidates for serodiagnosis of VL...
Insight toward early diagnosis of leprosy through analysis of the developing antibody responses of Mycobacterium leprae-infected armadillosMalcolm S Duthie
Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia St, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Clin Vaccine Immunol 18:254-9. 2011..leprae infection but also indicate considerable variability in the development of antigen-specific antibodies. Our data suggest that a combination of antigens is likely required to provide accurate and early leprosy diagnosis...
A defined tuberculosis vaccine candidate boosts BCG and protects against multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosisSylvie Bertholet
Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia Street, Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Sci Transl Med 2:53ra74. 2010....
Identification and characterization of novel recombinant vaccine antigens for immunization against genital Chlamydia trachomatisRhea N Coler
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol 55:258-70. 2009..trachomatis. Some of the vaccines prevented bacterial shedding and colonization of the upper genital tract to varying degrees by mechanisms that may include CD4+ T cells...
Distinct antigen recognition pattern during zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis in humans and dogsYasuyuki Goto
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Vet Parasitol 160:215-20. 2009..In addition, we show a correlation between antibody titers to several antigens and severity of clinical symptoms during canine VL...
Protection of mice from Mycobacterium tuberculosis by ID87/GLA-SE, a novel tuberculosis subunit vaccine candidateHillarie Plessner Windish
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Vaccine 29:7842-8. 2011..ID87/GLA-SE appears to be a promising new vaccine candidate that warrants further development...
P704P, P712P, and P775P: A genomic cluster of prostate-specific genesJohn A Stolk
Corixa Corporation, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Prostate 60:214-26. 2004..Such understanding will likely result in the development of promising new markers for screening, diagnosis, and prognosis, as well as potential therapeutic approaches for combating this disease...
Intradermal immunization improves protective efficacy of a novel TB vaccine candidateSusan L Baldwin
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Vaccine 27:3063-71. 2009..This highlights the need to explore different routes of immunization based on the adjuvant formulations used...
Rational design and evaluation of a multiepitope chimeric fusion protein with the potential for leprosy diagnosisMalcolm S Duthie
Protein Advances Inc, 1102 Columbia St, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Clin Vaccine Immunol 17:298-303. 2010....
Immunological dominance of Trypanosoma cruzi tandem repeat proteinsYasuyuki Goto
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Infect Immun 76:3967-74. 2008..cruzi strains with regard to induced immunological responses, host susceptibility, disease outcomes, and pathogenicity...
Antigen-specific cellular and humoral responses are induced by intradermal Mycobacterium leprae infection of the mouse earMalcolm S Duthie
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Suite 400, 1124 Columbia St, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Infect Immun 75:5290-7. 2007..These results indicate the utility of intradermal ear infection for both induction and understanding of the immune response during M. leprae infection and the identification or testing of new leprosy treatments...
Vaccination with plasmid DNA encoding TSA/LmSTI1 leishmanial fusion proteins confers protection against Leishmania major infection in susceptible BALB/c miceA Campos-Neto
Infectious Disease Research Institute Corixa Corporation, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Infect Immun 70:2828-36. 2002....
Molecular cloning, expression, and immunogenicity of MTB12, a novel low-molecular-weight antigen secreted by Mycobacterium tuberculosisJ R Webb
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Infect Immun 66:4208-14. 1998..Recombinant MTB12 protein elicited in vitro proliferative responses from the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of a number of purified protein derivative-positive (PPD+) human donors but not from PPD- donors...
Development and pre-clinical assessment of a 73 kD chimeric fusion protein as a defined sub-unit vaccine for leprosyMalcolm S Duthie
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Vaccine 31:813-9. 2013..leprae-induced inflammation in mice. We are using these data to develop new vaccine initiatives for the continued and long-term control of leprosy...
Immunomodulatory and physical effects of oil composition in vaccine adjuvant emulsionsChristopher B Fox
Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia St, Ste 400, Seattle, WA 98104, United States
Vaccine 29:9563-72. 2011....
Use of protein antigens for early serological diagnosis of leprosyMalcolm S Duthie
Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia St, Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Clin Vaccine Immunol 14:1400-8. 2007..A serological diagnostic test capable of identifying and allowing treatment of early-stage leprosy could reduce transmission, prevent functional disabilities and stigmatizing deformities, and facilitate leprosy eradication...
Development of a leishmaniasis vaccine: the importance of MPLSteven G Reed
Corixa Corporation, Seattle, WA, USA
Expert Rev Vaccines 2:239-52. 2003..This vaccine has potential application in both the prevention and treatment of leishmaniasis...
Applying TLR synergy in immunotherapy: implications in cutaneous leishmaniasisVanitha S Raman
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
J Immunol 185:1701-10. 2010..Our data help to define a correlate of protection during active infection and indicate TLR synergy to be a potentially valuable tool in treating intracellular infections...
Cloning and characterization of a gene encoding an immunoglobulin-binding receptor on the cell surface of some members of the family TrypanosomatidaeAntonio Campos-Neto
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA
Infect Immun 71:5065-76. 2003....
Bioinformatic identification of tandem repeat antigens of the Leishmania donovani complexYasuyuki Goto
Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia St, Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Infect Immun 75:846-51. 2007..0070, LinJ25.1100, LinJ27.0400, and LinJ29.0110, which were from the 42 uncharacterized proteins, are also antigenic. The results suggest the validity of this approach for identifying leishmanial antigens of serological significance...
Increased potency of an inactivated trivalent polio vaccine with oil-in-water emulsionsSusan L Baldwin
Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia St, Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Vaccine 29:644-9. 2011..Our results show that the addition of oil-in-water emulsion adjuvants to an, inactivated trivalent poliovirus vaccine are dose-sparing and are capable of enhancing, neutralizing antibody titers in the rat potency model...
Selection of antigens and development of prototype tests for point-of-care leprosy diagnosisMalcolm S Duthie
Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia St, Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Clin Vaccine Immunol 15:1590-7. 2008..A serological diagnostic test capable of identifying and allowing treatment of leprosy could reduce transmission, prevent functional disabilities and stigmatizing deformities, and facilitate leprosy eradication...
A synthetic adjuvant to enhance and expand immune responses to influenza vaccinesRhea N Coler
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
PLoS ONE 5:e13677. 2010..These results suggest that synthetic TLR4 adjuvants can enhance the magnitude and quality of protective immunity induced by influenza vaccines...
Expression and purification of immunologically reactive DPPD, a recombinant Mycobacterium tuberculosis skin test antigen, using Mycobacterium smegmatis and Escherichia coli host cellsChao Liu
Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia Street, Suite 600, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Can J Microbiol 50:97-105. 2004..Because the DPPD gene is present only in the tuberculosis-complex organisms of the Mycobacterium genus, these highly purified molecules should be helpful in identifying individuals sensitized with tubercle bacilli...
Potential serological use of a recombinant protein that is a replica of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein found in the urine of infected miceSandeep Mukherjee
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA
Clin Diagn Lab Immunol 11:280-6. 2004..The immediate availability of the antigen at a time point in which the patient's immune system is still competent would lead to a secondary immune response to U1 that persists for months in the patient's serum...
IL-10 mediates susceptibility to Trypanosoma cruzi infectionS G Reed
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98109
J Immunol 153:3135-40. 1994..cruzi by the administration of neutralizing anti-IL-10 mAb. This study demonstrated an important and perhaps essential role of IL-10 in mediating in vivo susceptibility to T. cruzi infection...
Therapeutic immunization against Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an effective adjunct to antibiotic treatmentRhea N Coler
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA
J Infect Dis 207:1242-52. 2013....
Advances and hurdles on the way toward a leprosy vaccineMalcolm S Duthie
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, WA USA
Hum Vaccin 7:1172-83. 2011..We summarize and discuss leprosy vaccine strategies that have been deployed previously and discuss those strategies that are currently being developed to augment recent breakthroughs in leprosy control...
The development and clinical evaluation of second-generation leishmaniasis vaccinesMalcolm S Duthie
Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia St, Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Vaccine 30:134-41. 2012..Finally, potential refinements and surrogate markers that could expedite the introduction of a vaccine that can limit the severity and incidence of leishmaniasis are discussed...
Targeting TLRs expands the antibody repertoire in response to a malaria vaccineSteven R Wiley
Imdaptive Inc, 3010 Northwest 56th Street, Seattle, WA 98107, USA
Sci Transl Med 3:93ra69. 2011....
Prostein expression is highly restricted to normal and malignant prostate tissuesMichael Kalos
Corixa Corporation, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Prostate 60:246-56. 2004..A murine monoclonal antibody was developed, characterized, and used to evaluate the expression of prostein protein in prostatic, other normal tissue and tumor samples...
Lateral flow immunoassay for diagnosis of Trypanosoma cruzi infection with high correlation to the radioimmunoprecipitation assayRaymond L Houghton
InBios International, Inc, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Clin Vaccine Immunol 16:515-20. 2009..2, with two additional sequences for peptide 1 and Kmp-11. The latter, when evaluated in a dipstick assay with consensus positive sera, had a sensitivity of 99.2% and a specificity of 99.1%...
Second-generation vaccines against leishmaniasisRhea N Coler
The Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia Street, Suite 600, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Trends Parasitol 21:244-9. 2005..In addition, several antigens have been identified and characterized that might be potential vaccine candidates. In this article, we focus on advances made with second-generation vaccines against leishmaniasis...
Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens of high serodiagnostic valueGregory C Ireton
Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia Street, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Clin Vaccine Immunol 17:1539-47. 2010....
Synthetic and natural TLR4 agonists as safe and effective vaccine adjuvantsChristopher B Fox
Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia St, Ste 400, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Subcell Biochem 53:303-21. 2010..Moreover, the formulation of TLR4 agonists has been shown to significantly affect the type and magnitude of elicited immune response. TLR4 agonists comprise a promising class of adjuvants for safe and effective vaccines...
Human and murine immune responses to a novel Leishmania major recombinant protein encoded by members of a multicopy gene familyJ R Webb
Infectious Disease Research Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Infect Immun 66:3279-89. 1998..Together, these data suggest that the TSA protein may be useful as a component of a subunit vaccine against leishmaniasis...
Mass spectrometric identification of mtb81, a novel serological marker for tuberculosisR C Hendrickson
Corixa Corporation, Seattle Washington 98140, USA
J Clin Microbiol 38:2354-61. 2000..Together, these results demonstrate that Mtb81 may be a promising complementary antigen for the serodiagnosis of TB...
New horizons in adjuvants for vaccine developmentSteven G Reed
Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia St Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Trends Immunol 30:23-32. 2009..In this review, we outline the current state of adjuvant research and development and how formulation parameters can influence the effectiveness of adjuvants...
Taking toll: lipid A mimetics as adjuvants and immunomodulatorsDavid H Persing
Corixa, Suite 200, 1124 Columbia Street, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Trends Microbiol 10:S32-7. 2002..Novel approaches to vaccine development could benefit from taking full advantage of the effects of these compounds on innate and adaptive responses...
Monitoring the effects of component structure and source on formulation stability and adjuvant activity of oil-in-water emulsionsChristopher B Fox
Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia Street, Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98104, United States
Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 65:98-105. 2008..It is shown that oil-in-water emulsions using animal-derived components can be substituted with synthetic or plant-derived materials while still exhibiting satisfactory physicochemical and biological properties...
Characterization of KLK4 expression and detection of KLK4-specific antibody in prostate cancer patient seraCraig H Day
Corixa Corporation, 1124 Columbia Street, Suite 200, Seattle, Washington, WA 98104, USA
Oncogene 21:7114-20. 2002....
Effect of chemotherapy on whole-blood cytokine responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens in a small cohort of patients with pulmonary tuberculosisSylvie Bertholet
Infectious Disease Research Institute, 1124 Columbia Street, Ste 400, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Clin Vaccine Immunol 18:1378-86. 2011..tuberculosis proteins during the course of TB therapy might be a promising path toward the development of a test of cure and warrants further validation in larger cohorts of pulmonary TB patients...
A high-throughput methodology for identifying molecular targets overexpressed in lung cancersTongtong Wang
Department of Tumor Antigen Discovery, Corixa Corporation, Seattle, WA, USA
Methods Mol Med 75:177-88. 2003
Use of defined TLR ligands as adjuvants within human vaccinesMalcolm S Duthie
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
Immunol Rev 239:178-96. 2011....
Discovery of differentially expressed genes in human breast cancer using subtracted cDNA libraries and cDNA microarraysYuqiu Jiang
Corixa Corporation, 1124 Columbia Street, Suite 200, Seattle, Washington, WA 98104, USA
Oncogene 21:2270-82. 2002..These differentially expressed genes may be of potential utility as therapeutic and diagnostic targets for breast cancer...
Purification and characterization of the mammaglobin/lipophilin B complex, a promising diagnostic marker for breast cancerDarrick Carter
Department of Antigen Discovery, Corixa Corp, 1124 Columbia Street, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Biochemistry 41:6714-22. 2002..This work describes the biochemistry of the mammaglobin/lipophilin B complex and lays the framework for use of this complex as a novel protein-based serological marker for breast cancer...
Expression cloning of an immunodominant family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens using human CD4(+) T cellsM R Alderson
Department of Immunology, Corixa Corporation, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
J Exp Med 191:551-60. 2000..9A. The direct identification of antigens using T cells from immune donors will undoubtedly be critical for the development of vaccines to several intracellular pathogens...
Cloning, expression, and immunological evaluation of two putative secreted serine protease antigens of Mycobacterium tuberculosisY A Skeiky
Corixa Corporation, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Infect Immun 67:3998-4007. 1999..MTB32A, therefore, represents a candidate for inclusion in subunit vaccine development. Finally, the possible role of MTB32 serine proteases as a virulence factor(s) during Mycobacterium spp. infection is discussed...
Molecular characterization and human T-cell responses to a member of a novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis mtb39 gene familyD C Dillon
Corixa Corporation, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Infect Immun 67:2941-50. 1999..The human T-cell responses and initial animal studies provide support for further evaluation of this antigen as a possible component of a subunit vaccine for M.tuberculosis...
Multiepitope synthetic peptide and recombinant protein for the detection of antibodies to Trypanosoma cruzi in patients with treated or untreated Chagas' diseaseR L Houghton
Corixa Corporation, Seattle, WA 98104
J Infect Dis 181:325-30. 2000..The results indicate that multiepitope antigens provide a more sensitive and specific alternative to lysate for detection of anti-T. cruzi antibodies, as required for developing blood screening assays...
Association of Leishmania heat shock protein 83 antigen and immunoglobulin G4 antibody titers in Brazilian patients with diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasisY A Skeiky
Corixa Corporation, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Infect Immun 65:5368-70. 1997....
A Leishmania protein that modulates interleukin (IL)-12, IL-10 and tumor necrosis factor-alpha production and expression of B7-1 in human monocyte-derived antigen-presenting cellsP Probst
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
Eur J Immunol 27:2634-42. 1997..These immunomodulatory characteristics of LeIF might be excellent properties for a Th1-type adjuvant...
A cloned antigen (recombinant K39) of Leishmania chagasi diagnostic for visceral leishmaniasis in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 patients and a prognostic indicator for monitoring patients undergoing drug therapyR L Houghton
Corixa Corp, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
J Infect Dis 177:1339-44. 1998..In contrast, most patients who clinically relapsed showed increased antibody titers to rK39. These data demonstrate the diagnostic and prognostic utility of rK39 in detecting active visceral leishmaniasis...
LeIF: a recombinant Leishmania protein that induces an IL-12-mediated Th1 cytokine profileY A Skeiky
Corixa Corporation, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
J Immunol 161:6171-9. 1998..major. Thus, our results suggest the potential of LeIF as a Th1-type adjuvant and as a therapeutic and prophylactic vaccine Ag for leishmaniasis when used with other leishmanial Ags...
A multi-epitope synthetic peptide and recombinant protein for the detection of antibodies to Trypanosoma cruzi in radioimmunoprecipitation-confirmed and consensus-positive seraR L Houghton
Corixa Corporation, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
J Infect Dis 179:1226-34. 1999..These studies show that peptides and recombinants containing multiple repeat epitopes are powerful tools for developing assays for T. cruzi antibody detection and have direct application in blood screening...
L552S, an alternatively spliced isoform of XAGE-1, is over-expressed in lung adenocarcinomaT Wang
Department of Tumor Antigen Discovery, Corixa Corporation, 1124 Columbia Street, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Oncogene 20:7699-709. 2001..These results strongly imply that L552S protein is immunogenic and suggest that it might have use as a vaccine target for lung cancer...
Detection of mammaglobin in the sera of patients with breast cancerG R Fanger
Corixa Corporation, Department of Antigen Discovery, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Tumour Biol 23:212-21. 2002..Thus, mammaglobin, which is overexpressed and secreted from breast carcinoma cells, is detectable in sera of patients with breast cancer and may provide a rapid screening test for the diagnosis and management of breast cancer...
L523S, an RNA-binding protein as a potential therapeutic target for lung cancerT Wang
Department of Tumor Antigen Discovery, Corixa Corporation, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Br J Cancer 88:887-94. 2003..Collectively, our studies suggest that L523S may be an important marker of malignant progression in human lung cancer, and further suggest that treatment approaches based on L523S as an immunogenic target are worthy of pursuit...
A p53 homologue and a novel serine proteinase inhibitor are over-expressed in lung squamous cell carcinomaT Wang
Department of Tumor Antigen Discovery, Corixa Corporation, 1124 Columbia Street, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Lung Cancer 34:363-74. 2001....
Transcriptional complementarity in breast cancer: application to detection of circulating tumor cellsR L Houghton
Corixa Corporation, 1124 Columbia St, Ste 200, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Mol Diagn 6:79-91. 2001..We used a combination of genetic subtraction, silicon DNA microarray analysis, and quantitative PCR to identify tissue- and tumor-specific genes as diagnostic targets for breast cancer...
Serological expression cloning and immunological evaluation of MTB48, a novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigenM J Lodes
Corixa Corporation, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
J Clin Microbiol 39:2485-93. 2001..tuberculosis infection when it is combined with other known immunodominant antigens, such as the 38-kDa antigen...
Serodiagnosis of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis by using novel combinations of immunoreactive recombinant proteinsM J Lodes
Corixa Corporation, 1124 Columbia St, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
J Clin Microbiol 39:2466-76. 2001..2% (23 of 27) of acute-phase patient serum samples are detected, indicating the potential of these antigens for use in the development of a rapid serologic assay for the detection of E. phagocytophila infection...
Identification and characterization of prostein, a novel prostate-specific proteinJ Xu
Corixa Corp, Seattle Washington 98104, USA
Cancer Res 61:1563-8. 2001..These results validate prostein as a prostate-specific marker with potential utility in the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer...
Molecular and immunological characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis CFP-10, an immunodiagnostic antigen missing in Mycobacterium bovis BCGD C Dillon
Corixa Corporation, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
J Clin Microbiol 38:3285-90. 2000..rCFP-10 could also contribute to the development of a recombinant T-cell diagnostic test capable of detecting exposure to M. tuberculosis...
Serological expression cloning of novel immunoreactive antigens of Babesia microtiM J Lodes
Corixa Corporation, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Infect Immun 68:2783-90. 2000..Western blot analysis with the resulting recombinant proteins indicated that these antigens were targets of humoral immune responses during B. microti infection in humans...
ML0405 and ML2331 are antigens of Mycobacterium leprae with potential for diagnosis of leprosyStephen T Reece
IDRI, 1124 Columbia Street, Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Clin Vaccine Immunol 13:333-40. 2006..We suggest that ML0405 and ML2331 may have utility in serological leprosy diagnosis...
Immunization with a polyprotein vaccine consisting of the T-Cell antigens thiol-specific antioxidant, Leishmania major stress-inducible protein 1, and Leishmania elongation initiation factor protects against leishmaniasisRhea N Coler
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Infect Immun 70:4215-25. 2002....
Role of adjuvants in modeling the immune responseDarrick Carter
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA
Curr Opin HIV AIDS 5:409-13. 2010..This review is intended to give an overview of recent findings on how adjuvants model the immune response to antigens with a focus on the field of vaccines for HIV...
Adjuvants for cancer vaccinesThomas W Dubensky
Immune Design Corporation, 1124 Columbia St, Ste 700, Seattle, WA 98104, United States
Semin Immunol 22:155-61. 2010..In this review, we examine new molecularly defined adjuvants and formulations and its application to cancer vaccines under development...
Use of multiepitope polyproteins in serodiagnosis of active tuberculosisRaymond L Houghton
Corixa Corporation, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Clin Diagn Lab Immunol 9:883-91. 2002..The data indicate that the use of multiple antigens, some of which are in a single polyprotein, can be used to facilitate the development of a highly sensitive test for M. tuberculosis antibody detection...
Application of a multigene reverse transcription-PCR assay for detection of mammaglobin and complementary transcribed genes in breast cancer lymph nodesBarbara K Zehentner
Corixa, 1124 Columbia St, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Clin Chem 48:1225-31. 2002..In addition, this multigene assay could also be used to test peripheral blood and bone marrow samples...
Evaluation of DPPD, a single recombinant Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein as an alternative antigen for the Mantoux testA Campos-Neto
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Tuberculosis (Edinb) 81:353-8. 2001..Because the DPPD gene is not present in non-tuberculous bacilli, these results suggest that this molecule can be an additional tool for a more specific diagnosis of tuberculosis...
Characterization of human CD8+ T cells reactive with Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected antigen-presenting cellsD M Lewinsohn
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
J Exp Med 187:1633-40. 1998..The data suggest the possible use of nonpolymorphic MHC class Ib antigen presenting structures other than CD1...
Adjuvants for malaria vaccinesR N Coler
Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Parasite Immunol 31:520-8. 2009..In this minireview, we outline the current state of adjuvant research and development as it pertains to effective malaria vaccines...
