POLYPEPTIDE WHICH MIMIC A REGION OF NEISSERA GONORRHOEAE PILUS PROTEIN,VACCINES CONTAINING THESE POLYPEPTIDES,RECEPTORS RAISED TO THESE POLYPEPTIDES AND A DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM FOR ASSAYING NEISSERA GONORRHOEAE PILUS PROTEIN

摘要

A polypeptide that is smaller than a naturally-occuring gonococcal pilin protein but is capable of immunological mimicking a conserved antigenic determinant site within a variable region within the carboxy-terminal half of a gonococcal pilin Vaccines, inocula, methods of immunization, and diagnostic assays utilizing such a polypeptide as well as antibodies raised by the polypeptide are disclosed.