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US 10,294,277 B2Granted
Stabilised FMDV capsids
AssigneeThe Pirbright Institute
InventorsAbhay Kotecha, David Stuart, Elizabeth Fry, Robert Esnouf
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the stabilization of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) capsids, by specific substitution of amino acids in a specific region of FMDV VP2. The invention provides stabilized FMDV capsids and vaccines against FMD.
Claims9
A foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) VP2 protein mutant, that comprises an amino acid substitution of a phenylalanine at position number 93 (93F), wherein the position number is relative to the numbering of the amino acids presented in SEQ ID NO:
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