Patent ID: 8586051

Claim:
A method for suppressing an immune response in a subject in need of said suppressing of the immune response, the method comprising: (a) administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a compound, composition, or vaccine designed to suppress an immune response, wherein the compound, composition, or vaccine, comprises an adjuvant, wherein the adjuvant comprises a compound represented by the structure of formula 1: wherein, R═COOR 1 or CH 2 OR 1 ; R 1 ═H or an alkyl group; R 2 ═H or SO 3 − ; R 3 ═H or OH; R 3 ′═H or OH; R 4 and R 4 ′ are independently chosen from (a) H, (b) alkyl; (c) alkenyl; and (d) oxaalkyl; R 5 ═OH, acetamido or a halogen atom; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein if R═CH 2 OR 1 where R 1 is H, then R 2 ═SO 3 − , and wherein if R═CH 2 OR 1 , R 2 ═H, R 3 is OH and R 3 ′ is H, then R 5 =acetamido or a halogen atom; or a compound represented by the structure of formula (17): wherein R 4 is selected from: (a) alkyl, (b) alkenyl, (c) alkyl terminating in aryl, substituted aryl, heteroaryl or substituted heteroaryl; and (d) alkenyl terminating in aryl, substituted aryl, heteroaryl or substituted heteroaryl, and R 6 is X is an alkyl chain; and R 7 is chosen from halogen, H, phenyl, alkyl, alkoxy, nitro, and CF 3 .