«The
strategy of using peptides that mimic regions of a human immune receptor, to put the brakes on the excessive inflammatory response triggered by superantigen
toxins, is a host - oriented
strategy that is broadly effective
against the diverse family of superantigens,» said Prof. Raymond Kaempfer.
This «suggests that antibodies specific for this conserved region could provide protection
against multiple
toxin - mediated clostridium infections and points to a generalizable
strategy for generating safe vaccine antigens for this class of
toxins,» they concluded.