Abstract: This invention provides improved replication-competent adenoviral vectors. The improved vectors have both a hybrid regulatory unit that provides for high level transgene expression. The vectors can be use, e.g., for therapeutic or prophylactic purposes.

Abstract: This invention provides improved replication-competent adenoviral vectors. The improved vectors have both a hybrid regulatory unit that provides for high level transgene expression. The vectors can be use, e.g., for therapeutic or prophylactic purposes.

Abstract: This invention provides improved replication-competent adenoviral vectors. The improved vectors have both a hybrid regulatory unit that provides for high level transgene expression. The vectors can be use, e.g., for therapeutic or prophylactic purposes.

Abstract: This invention provides improved replication-competent adenoviral vectors. The improved vectors have both a hybrid regulatory unit that provides for high level transgene expression. The vectors can be use, e.g., for therapeutic or prophylactic purposes.

Abstract: This invention provides improved replication-competent adenoviral vectors. The improved vectors have both a hybrid regulatory unit that provides for high level transgene expression. The vectors can be use, e.g., for therapeutic or prophylactic purposes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods, polypeptides, and polynucleotides encoding immunogenic identical or analogous HIV polypeptides derived from the same or different strains within an HIV subtype and/or different subtypes. Uses of the polynucleotides and polypeptides in combination approaches for generating immune responses are also described. The combination approaches described herein induce broad and potent immune responses against diverse HIV strains from multiple strains within a given subtype and against diverse subtypes. Formulations of compositions for generating immune responses and methods of use for such compositions are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods, polynucleotides, and polypeptides encoding immunogenic HIV polypeptides derived from different strains within an HIV subtype and/or immunogenic HIV polypeptides from different subtypes. Uses of the polynucleotides and polypeptides in combination approaches for generating immune responses are described. The combination approaches described herein have been shown to induce broad and potent neutralizing activity against diverse HIV strains from multiple strains within a given subtype and against diverse subtypes. Formulations of compositions for generating immune responses and methods of use for such compositions are also disclosed.

Abstract: This invention provides improved replication-competent adenoviral vectors. The improved vectors have both a hybrid regulatory unit that provides for high level transgene expression. The vectors can be use, e.g., for therapeutic or prophylactic purposes.

Abstract: The current invention provides novel adenovirus type 7 cosmid vectors for the production of adenovirus type 7 for use in gene transfer. In particular, the invention provides a replication-defective adenovirus type 7 that expresses one or more HIV polypeptides for use in stimulating an immune response to HIV-1.

Abstract: The present invention relates to synthetic peptide analogues useful as therapeutic agents, immunogens or for the diagnosis of disease. In particular, it relates to peptide multimers which maintain the conformation of the native proteins from which they are derived. Peptomers constructed from peptides derived from gp120 of the human immunodeficiency virus are exemplified.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method to measure natural human antibodies in sera which will neutralize HTLV-III infection in an in vitro assay. Basically, cell-free virus is incubated with serum and used to infect H9 cells, which are then put in culture for three days, and viral infectivity is assayed using a monoclonal antibody specific for HTLV-III p24 in an immune fluorescent assay.

Abstract: The present invention is an immortalized B-cell line which produces a human monoclonal antibody IgG-Kk which specifically binds to the envelope antigen of human T-cell leukemia virus Type 1 (HTLV-I). This monoclonal antibody is useful as a diagnostic reagent by binding to the antigen specifically expressed on the surface of HTLV producing cells. Furthermore, this monoclonal antibody is useful as a therapeutic reagent, in combination with complement, for the lysis of HTLV-1 producing cells.