Patent ID: 6995140

Claim:
A composition comprising the peptide: Y-W-S-A 1 -C-S-A 2 -C-G-Z(SEQ ID NO: 9) wherein Y and Z consist of: (a) amino acid chains consisting of 0–6 amino acids; or (b) chains of compounds which are not amino acids, wherein A 1 and A 2 are amino acid sequences consisting of 1 to 5 amino acids and further wherein the peptide is not selected from the group consisting of one of the following sequences: -W-S-P-C-S-V-T-C-G- (SEQ ID NO:2), -W-S-S-C-S-V-T-C-G- (SEQ ID NO:3), and -W-S-Q-C-S-V-T-C-G- (SEQ ID NO:4).