Advances in synthetic peptide immuno-regulatory epitopes.

World Allergy Organ J

Creticos Research Group, Crownsville, Maryland USA ; Division of Allergy & Clinical Immunology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland USA.

Published: November 2014

Synthetic peptide immuno-regulatory epitopes (SPIRE) represent a new class of therapeutics for allergen immunotherapy that offer the potential to suppress the IgE-mediated allergic disease process through induction of T-cell tolerance. These synthetic T-cell-tolerizing peptides have been designed to induce immunologic tolerance via binding to MHC class II molecules on antigen presenting cells, with subsequent upregulation of regulatory T-cells.

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