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Reports Outline Vaccines Study Results from University of Bari

Published in Vaccine Weekly, March 21st, 2012

2012 MAR 21 -- Current study results from the report, "Circumscribing the conformational Peptide epitope landscape," have been published. "The development of vaccines for new and re-emerging pathologies and infections is based on the ability to define immunogenic epitopes. An immunogenic B-cell peptide epitope is a specific restricted antigen region that is capable of eliciting a humoral immune response and of combining with a specific site on antibodies," investigators in Bari, Italy report.

"Using a number of experimental models and based on data from several literature reports, we identified low levels of sequence similarity to the host proteome as one...

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