A process for obtaining a consensus protein from a group of amino acid sequences of a defined protein family, proteins and polynucleotides so obtained, and compositions containing such proteins.
This application is a divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/634,493 filed on Aug. 8, 2000, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,579,975, which is a divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/121,425 filed Jul. 23, 1998, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,153,418.
