Patent ID: 7097971

Claim:
A composition comprising an isolated HIV peptide comprising an amino acid sequence of Phe Val Ile His Arg Leu Glu Pro Trp Leu His Pro Gly Ser Gln His Nle Thr Ala Ser Thr Asn (SEQ ID NO: 14), wherein the terminal ends of the sequence may be free carboxyl- or amino groups, amides, acyls, acetyls or salts thereof, and two or more of the Cys residues may form part of an intrachain- or interchain-disulfide bond, a —S—(CH 2 ) p —S— or a —(CH 2 ) p -bridge wherein p=1–8 optionally intervened by one or more heteroatoms such as O, N and S and/or the peptide is immobilized to a solid support.