Polypeptide medicine for inhibiting SARS coronavirus, and derivatives and use thereof
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN Β· China
- Patent Type
- Applications(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- INST OF MICROBIOLOGY - CHINESE ACAD OF SCI
- Publication Date
- 2004-04-14
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable Β· inactive patent
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Abstract
Description
Field of invention:
[0001] The invention belongs to the field of molecular biology of viruses. Specifically, it involves the use of the heptad repeat (HR) HR1 and HR2 polypeptides of the SARS coronavirus spike (S) protein and their derivatives to prevent and treat SARS coronavirus infection. Background technique:
[0002] Recently, a contagious severe acute respiratory syndrome (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, SARS) or "atypical pneumonia" broke out all over the world, and its pathogen has been preliminarily identified as a novel coronavirus (Coronavirus). Coronavirus is an enveloped RNA virus. Similar to other enveloped viruses, it needs to release genetic material into the cell through the fusion of the virus envelope and the cell membrane to complete the infection of the cell. Studies on the fusion mechanism of most enveloped viruses have found that they use envelope fusion glycoproteins to mediate the fusion of the viral envelope and the host cell membrane through co...