Patent ID: 8013115

Claim:
A synthetic compound consisting of: a) a cyclic or noncyclic polypeptide carrier molecule backbone, wherein the cyclic polypeptide carrier molecule backbone consists of 8 to 50 amino acid residues and the noncyclic polypeptide carrier molecule backbone consists of 7 to 50 amino acid residues, containing the sequence: X 1 -A 1 -A 2 -A 3 -A 4 -A 5 -X 2 -A 6 wherein X 1 and X 2 are lysine residues, A 1 and A 2 represent an amino acid residue selected from the group consisting of proline, phenylalanine, glycine, alanine, valine, leucine, and isoleucine, with the proviso that one of A 1 and A 2 is selected from the group consisting of proline and phenylalanine, A 3 represents an amino acid residue selected from the group consisting of glycine, alanine, valine, leucine, and isoleucine, A 4 represents an amino acid residue selected from the group consisting of arginine and histidine, A 5 represents an amino acid residue selected from the group consisting of glycine, alanine, valine, leucine, and isoleucine, and A 6 represents an amino acid residue selected from the group consisting of glycine, alanine, valine, leucine, and isoleucine; and b) a side arm grafted to the side chain of each of the two X 1 and X 2 lysine residues, the side arm carrying at least two different epitopes of human cardiac troponin I.