Abstract: Multispecific antibodies binding to human CD40 and human CD137, methods for preparing such multispecific antibodies, and methods of using such multispecific antibodies for therapeutic or other purposes.

Abstract: Compounds useful as components of immunogenic compositions for the induction of an immunogenic response in a subject against viral infection, methods for their use in treatment, and processes for their manufacture are provided herein. The compounds comprise a nucleic acid construct comprising a sequence which encodes a Zika virus antigen.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing anti-mammalian AMH antibodies comprising the steps of: (i) immunizing an animal with an AMH polypeptide or a polynucleotide encoding this AMH polypeptide, said AMH polypeptide comprising at least the 99 amino acids of sequence SEQ ID No. 1 or of a sequence having at least 75% identity with the sequence SEQ ID No. 1, and at most the 560 amino acids of sequence SEQ ID No. 2 or of a sequence having at least 75% identity with the sequence SEQ ID No. 2, (ii) preparing hybridomas from cells of a lymphoid organ of the animal having received the immunogen, (iii) selecting hybridomas secreting antibodies recognizing an AMH polypeptide comprising at least the 99 amino acids of sequence SEQ ID No. 1 or of a sequence having at least 75% identity with the sequence SEQ ID No. 1, and at most the 255 amino acids of sequence SEQ ID No. 8 or of a sequence having at least 75% identity with the sequence SEQ ID No.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to specific binding agents to varicella-zoster virus proteins or glycoproteins. In certain embodiments the specific binding agents are antibodies and binding fragments thereof disclosed herein. In certain embodiments, this disclosure relates to methods of treating or preventing a varicella-zoster infection comprising administering an effective amount of a specific binding agent disclosed herein to a subject in need thereof.

Abstract: A composition is provided which comprises a recombinant viral particle comprising a capsid, wherein the viral particle is encapsulated into an anionic liposome comprising lecithin and polyethylene glycol (PEG). A method for preparing and purifying the encapsulated viral particles is provided as well. Methods for treating patients by using the encapsulated viral particles are provided as well.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a recombinant adenoviral vector for generating immunity against enterovirus infection. In one embodiment, the recombinant adenoviral vector of the invention comprises an expression cassette encoding a PI protein and a 3 CD protease of an enterovirus. In another embodiment, the recombinant adenoviral vector of the invention comprises an expression cassette encoding a 3C protease or a 3CD protease of an enterovirus. The present invention also relates to a vaccine composition comprising the recombinant adenoviral vector as described. A method of inducing an immune response in a subject against enterovirus infection using the recombinant adenoviral vector and the vaccine composition is provided. Further provided is a method for producing virus like particles of an enterovirus by expressing the adenoviral vector as described herein in mammalian cells.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a rapid and universal assay for the detection of antigen-specific antibodies in biological samples. The assay allows for the detection of antigen-specific antibodies in any species, including species for which secondary antibodies or antisera have not been developed or are not available. Biological samples to be tested are directly labeled, such as with biotin, and contacted with antigen-bound microparticles. The presence of antigen-specific antibodies in the biological samples is detected using a binding partner for the label, such as a biotin binding partner, conjugated to a detectable label, such as a fluorophore. This improved test provides a total antibody assay that is capable of detecting all classes of antibodies simultaneously.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the murine monoclonal antibody 4C2 or to chimeric or humanized monoclonal antibodies specific to a major neutralizing epitope of influenza H5 hemagglutinin and active fragments thereof. The present invention also relates to methods and compositions for the prophylaxis and treatment of H5N1 influenza using such murine or chimeric or humanized monoclonal antibodies or fragments thereof.

Abstract: A monoclonal antibody against the Duck Tembusu virus and a hybridoma cell line secreting the monoclonal antibody, a reagent kit and method for detecting a Duck Tembusu virus antibody, and application of the monoclonal antibody in preparing products for diagnosing the Duck Tembusu virus disease. The monoclonal antibody may bind specifically to E protein of Duck Tembusu virus and has an activity of neutralizing Duck Tembusu virus.

Abstract: Provided is a human antibody having a neutralization activity against a human influenza virus. More specifically, provided is a human antibody which recognizes a highly conserved region in a human influenza A virus subtype H3N2 or a human influenza B virus and has a neutralization activity against the virus. The human antibody is a human anti-human influenza virus antibody, which has a neutralization activity against a human influenza A virus subtype H3N2 and binds to a hemagglutinin HA1 region of the human influenza A virus subtype H3N2, or which has a neutralization activity against a human influenza B virus, and includes, as a base sequence of a DNA encoding a variable region of the antibody, a sequence set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOS: 5 to 12.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to novel peptide agents, e.g., antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof, that bind hemagglutinin protein of influenza viruses, and methods of their use.

Abstract: The invention relates to isolated, synthetic or recombinant antibodies and functional parts thereof specific for multiple influenza A virus subtypes. The invention further relates to the use of such antibodies for diagnosis of an influenza A virus infection and as a medicament and/or prophylactic agent for at least in part treating or alleviating symptoms of an influenza A virus infection.

Abstract: The invention provides antibodies and functional equivalents thereof which are capable of specifically binding RSV, and means and methods for producing them.

Abstract: The invention provides isolated fully human monoclonal anti-HRV antibodies, as well as method of making and using these antibodies. Anti-HRV antibodies of the invention prevent or treat subjects having HRV-infections, and related diseases, including, but not limited to, the common cold, nasopharyngitis, croup, pneumonia, bronchiolitis, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), sinusitis, bacterial superinfection, and cystic fibrosis.

Abstract: A protein complex isolated from its natural medium and including the ZEBRA protein of sequence SEQ ID NO: 1, the isolated protein complex having the following properties: it is more stable than the ZEBRA protein, in particular it is more resistant to the action of the proteases than the ZEBRA protein, it is capable of specifically binding the AZ125 and AZ130 monoclonal antibodies, it is soluble in a body fluid, and in particular a body fluid selected from the group constituted by blood and serum, and to its detection process and the uses of this process for the prognosis or diagnosis of lymphoproliferative episodes associated with the EBV.

Abstract: The invention provides isolated fully human monoclonal anti-HRV antibodies, as well as method of making and using these antibodies. Anti-HRV antibodies of the invention prevent or treat subjects having HRV-infections, and related diseases, including, but not limited to, the common cold, nasopharyngitis, croup, pneumonia, bronchiolitis, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), sinusitis, bacterial superinfection, and cystic fibrosis.

Abstract: Specific monoclonal antibodies and fragments including bispecific antibodies thereof that are crossreactive with multiple clades of influenza virus including both Group 1 and Group 2 representatives are disclosed. These antibodies are useful in controlling influenza epidemics and pandemics as well as in providing prophylactic or therapeutic protection against seasonal influenza.

Abstract: The invention relates to antibodies, and antigen binding fragments thereof, that specifically bind to an epitope in the stem region of an influenza A hemagglutinin trimer and neutralize a group 1 subtype and a group 2 subtype of influenza A virus. The invention also relates to nucleic acids that encode, immortalized B cells and cultured single plasma cells that produce, and to epitopes that bind to such antibodies and antibody fragments. In addition, the invention relates to the use of the antibodies, antibody fragments, and epitopes in screening methods as well as in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of influenza A virus infection.

Abstract: Screening assays and methods of performing such assays are provided. In certain examples, the assays and methods may be designed to determine whether or not two or more species can associate with each other. In some examples, the assays and methods may be used to determine if a known antigen binds to an unknown monoclonal antibody.

Abstract: The present invention provides identification and characterization of conformational epitopes of the envelope protein E2 of the Hepatitis C virus (HCV). The present invention provides a panel of human monoclonal antibodies that recognize conformational epitopes of E2. The antibodies are derived from patients infected with HCV. The present invention provides methods for utilizing HCV antibodies as therapeutic, diagnostic, and/or prophylactic agents. The present invention provides mimotopes with conformational epitopes intact and methods of using mimotopes. The present invention provides methods of stratifying patients based on their response to HCV. The present invention provides pharmaceutical compositions for prevention and treatment of HCV comprising one or more HCV antibodies.

Abstract: Provided are antibodies specifically binding to the HBV surface antigen (HBsAg) which are effective for the prevention or treatment of hepatitis B.

Abstract: The present invention provides for methods of producing human monoclonal antibodies against a wide variety of antigens including bacterial and viral antigens, as well as tumor antigens, and various autoantigens. Also provided are the antibodies themselves, nucleic acids encoding such antibodies, cells producing such antibodies, and methods of using such antibodies for diagnostic assays and passive immunity against disease states such as infection and cancer.

Abstract: The present invention provides fully human antibodies that bind to respiratory syncytial virus F protein, compositions comprising the antibodies and methods of use. The antibodies of the invention are useful for preventing fusion of the virus with the cell membrane and preventing cell to cell spread of the virus, thereby providing a means of preventing the infection, or treating a patient suffering from the infection and ameliorating one or more symptoms or complications associated with the viral infection. The antibodies may also be useful for diagnosis of an infection by RSV.

Abstract: Screening assays and methods of performing such assays are provided. In certain examples, the assays and methods may be designed to determine whether or not two or more species can associate with each other. In some examples, the assays and methods may be used to determine if a known antigen binds to an unknown monoclonal antibody.

Abstract: Screening assays and methods of performing such assays are provided. In certain examples, the assays and methods may be designed to determine whether or not two or more species can associate with each other. In some examples, the assays and methods may be used to determine if a known antigen binds to an unknown monoclonal antibody.

Abstract: Immunogenic compositions and prophylactic or therapeutic vaccines for use in protecting and treating against human cytomegalovirus (CMV) are disclosed. Subunit vaccines comprising a human CMV protein complex comprising pUL128 or pUL130, and nucleic acid vaccines comprising at least one nucleic acid encoding a CMV protein complex comprising pUL128 or pUL130 are described. Also disclosed are therapeutic antibodies reactive against a CMV protein complex comprising pUL128 or pUL130, as well as methods for screening compounds that inhibit CMV infection of epithelial and endothelial cells, methods for immunizing a subject against CMV infection, methods for determining the capability of neutralizing antibodies to inhibit CMV infection of cell types other than fibroblasts, and methods of diminishing an CMV infection.

Abstract: Described is an antibody or an antigen binding fragment thereof specifically binding to a full or empty H-1 parvovirus capsid. Such an antibody is useful for various diagnostic and therapeutic methods, e.g., for the detection/therapy of an H-1 parvovirus infection during pregnancy since parvovirus affects about 1 in 400 pregnancies and may cause fetal loss or fetal hydrops.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a binding molecule having influenza A virus-neutralizing activity derived from a human B cell, and the binding molecule having the influenza A virus-neutralizing activity, according to the present invention, is a binding molecule that is derived from a B cell that is selected from the blood of a patient infected with an influenza A virus, and has neutralizing activity against influenza A viruses, and thus is useful in preventing and treating disease derived from the influenza A virus, and can be useful in diagnosing the influenza A virus by using the binding molecule according to the present invention.

Abstract: The present invention relates to improved compositions for the prevention and treatment of smallpox, and in particular to the use of compositions containing an antibody that binds to an epitope found on the MV form of the smallpox virus and an antibody that binds to an epitope found on the EV form of the smallpox virus. The invention relates to such compositions, especially to non-blood derived antibody compositions, such as chimeric or humanized antibodies, and to methods for their use in imparting passive immunity against smallpox infection to individuals at risk of smallpox virus infection or who exhibit smallpox.

Abstract: Screening assays and methods of performing such assays are provided. In certain examples, the assays and methods may be designed to determine whether or not two or more species can associate with each other. In some examples, the assays and methods may be used to determine if a known antigen binds to an unknown monoclonal antibody.

Abstract: Monomeric VHH domain derived from anti-VP6 camelid antibodies, dimeric domain, immunisation method, rotavirus detection method, vaccine composition, prevention and treatment methods for rotavirus infections, wherein said domain may be any of the amino acid sequences shown in SEQ ID No. 1, SEQ ID No. 2, SEQ ID No. 3 or SEQ ID No. 4, and wherein said domains bind to protein VP6 of Group A rotavirus.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods of producing neutralizing monoclonal antibodies, by cyclical immunization, that cross-react with strains of Influenza virus of the same subtype or different subtypes. Also provided herein are compositions comprising such antibodies and methods of using such antibodies to diagnose, prevent or treat Influenza virus disease.

Abstract: The present invention provides anti-hemagglutinin antibodies, compositions comprising anti-hemagglutinin antibodies, and methods of using the same.

Abstract: This invention generally relates to methods for the production of antibody producing cells and antibodies in protooncogene expressing animals. The invention also relates to methods for the efficient production of antibodies specific for antigens that are normally subject to immunological constraints such as self tolerance. The invention further relates to the production of antibody producing cells and antibodies without the need for the conventional fusing of antibody producing B cells with a myeloma fusion partner.

Abstract: The invention provides antibodies and functional equivalents thereof which are capable of specifically binding RSV. Nucleic acid sequences encoding said antibody, as well as antibody producing cells and methods for producing said antibody are also provided.

Abstract: The invention provides antibodies and functional equivalents thereof which are capable of specifically binding RSV, and means and methods for producing them.

Abstract: The present invention provides system and methods for detecting an analyte indicative of an influenza viral infection in a sample of bodily fluid. The present invention also provides for systems and method for detection a plurality of analytes, at least two of which are indicative of an influenza viral infection in a sample of bodily fluid.

Abstract: The invention described herein provides novel peptides. The novel peptides are useful alone or as portions of larger molecules, such as antibodies or antibody fragments, that can be used to treat or prevent infection of Nipah virus and/or Hendra virus.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an antibody inhibiting infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV). The present invention provides an anti-hepatitis C virus antibody that recognizes a whole or a part of the conformation of a hepatitis C virus particle as an epitope and binds thereto, so as to be able to inhibit the binding of hepatitis C virus to the surface of a host cell and to inhibit HCV infection, a humanized antibody thereof, and an inhibitory agent for infection with hepatitis C virus.

Abstract: Provided herein are antibodies or antigen-binding fragments thereof that immunospecifically bind to the fusion (F) protein of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). Also provided are methods for of prevention, treatment and diagnosis of viral infection and/or the treatment of one more symptoms of RSV-mediated disease. Methods of generating antibodies that immunospecifically bind RSV F protein also are provided.

Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided which employ chimeric polypeptides having at least one heterologous epitope for a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) neutralizing antibody. These chimeric polypeptides behave as molecular scaffolds which are capable of presenting the various heterologous HIV-1 epitopes. The invention demonstrates that a heterologous epitope recognized by the HIV-1 neutralizing antibody can be more fully exposed to neutralizing antibodies when presented within the backbone of the chimeric polypeptide than when the epitope is presented within the context of an HIV-1 backbone. Polynucleotides encoding these chimeric polypeptides are also provided. Immunogenic compositions are provided which comprise a chimeric polypeptide having at least one heterologous epitope that interacts with an HIV-1 neutralizing antibody. Immuno genie compositions comprising chimeric polynucleotides encoding the chimeric polypeptides of the invention are also provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to antibodies, and antigen binding fragments thereof, that neutralize infection of both RSV, MPV and PVM. The invention also relates to nucleic acids that encode, immortalized B cells and cultured plasma cells that produce, and to polypeptides that bind to such antibodies and antibody fragments. In addition, the invention relates to the use of the antibodies, antibody fragments, and polypeptides recognized by the antibodies of the invention in screening methods as well as in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of RSV or MPV infection and RSV and MPV co-infection.

Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for the use of an envelope polypeptide or a functional variant thereof from a lentivirus that is not HIV-1 as a molecular scaffold for HIV-1 epitopes. The HIV-1 epitopes can be recognized by HIV-1 binding antibodies, HIV-1 neutralizing antibodies and/or CD4-induced antibodies. Thus, methods are provided for detecting HIV-1 binding antibodies in a subject infected with HTV-1. Further provided are methods to determine an epitope for an HIV-1 binding antibody; methods to assay for an HIV-1 binding antibody; methods to identify a soluble CD4 mimic; methods to neutralize an non-HIV-1 virus; diagnostic assays to monitor HIV disease in a subject or to monitor the subject's response to immunization by a HIV vaccine; and methods to alter the neutralization potential of an HIV-1 derived CD4-induced antibody. Chimeric polypeptides, chimeric polynucleotides, kits, cells and viruses are also provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to sequences of a novel variant of the Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and to methods for detecting, in patient samples, nucleic acids, antigens, and antibodies directed against the same.

Abstract: Azido-diarylpyrimidine (azido-DAPY) compounds, and compositions containing such compounds, are provided. In addition, methods of using azido-diarylpyrimidines to inactivate reverse transcriptases, prepare inactivated viruses, and treat or prevent viral infections are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides monoclonal antibodies that bind specifically to H5 subtype avian influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA) proteins, and can block the binding activity of at least 50% of the known monoclonal antibodies to the H5 subtype avian influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA) protein. The monoclonal antibodies can be used for the detection, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of avian influenza viruses, especially the H5 subtype of avian influenza viruses. The present invention also provides the related hybridoma cell lines, isolated nucleic acid molecules and short peptides, as well as medical composition and medical diagnostic equipment and kit containing the monoclonal antibody.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. In particular the present invention relates to highly specific immunotoxins useful in treating diseases related to CMV infection. CMV encodes chemokine receptors that undergo constitutive internalization. Thus CMV infected cells can be targeted specifically with immunotoxins with high affinity to CMV encoded constitutively internalizing receptors. This will ensure efficient uptake of the immunotoxin by the CMV infected cell, and thereby ensure the death of the infected cell with a minimum of unwanted toxicity and side effects. Furthermore, the invention relates to a way of inhibiting CMV replication and/or growth by using immunotoxins by targeting constitutively internalizing CMV encoded receptors.

Abstract: Described are binding molecules, e.g., human monoclonal antibodies, that bind to influenza virus comprising HA of the H3 subtype, e.g., H3N2, and have a broad neutralizing activity against such influenza virus. Described are polynucleotides encoding the binding molecules, their sequences and compositions comprising the binding molecules and methods of identifying or producing the binding molecules. The binding molecules can be used in the diagnosis, prophylaxis, and/or treatment of influenza virus H3N2 infection. The binding molecules may provide cross-subtype protection, such that infections with H3, H7, and/or H10-based influenza subtypes can be prevented and/or treated.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to novel peptide agents, e.g., antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof, that bind hemagglutinin protein of influenza viruses, and methods of their use.

Abstract: The present invention provides antibodies (e.g., monoclonal antibodies, human antibodies, humanized antibodies, etc.), which bind to multiple influenza strains. Such antibodies are useful, for example, in the prophylaxis, treatment, diagnosis, and/or study of influenza.