Nucleic acids and proteins of the mycoplasma hyopneumoniae mhp3 gene and uses thereof

• Main Authors: KING, KENDALL WAYNE, ROSEY, EVERETT LEE, MADURA, REBECCA ANNE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 27.12.2006
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL ORENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER; CULTURE MEDIA; DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES; ELECTRICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIREDCHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERSFROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE; GENERATION; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEASURING; MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEICACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PEPTIDES; PHYSICS; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; PROCESSES USING MICROORGANISMS; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS; SPIRITS; TESTING; VINEGAR; WINE

The present invention relates to mhp3 nucleic acids and proteins encoded by the foregoing. The present invention further relates to novel apoprotein antigens encoded by mhp3 for use in vaccines to prevent and treat diseases caused by infection with Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae. The invention further relates to methods for the recombinant production of such antigens.