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The 28-mer linear chimeric peptide consists of the double phosphorylated B cell epitope Tau229-237[pThr231\/pSer235] and the immunomodulatory T cell epitope Ag85B241-255 originating from the well-known antigen Ag85B of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis, linked by a four amino acid sequence -GPSL-. NMR chemical shift analysis of our construct demonstrated that the synthesized peptide is essentially unfolded with a tendency to form a \u03b2-turn due to the linker. In conclusion, the  -GPSL- unit presumably connects the two parts of the vaccine without transferring any structural information from one part to the other. 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