| CPC A61K 39/155 (2013.01) [A61K 39/12 (2013.01); C07K 14/005 (2013.01); C12N 7/00 (2013.01); A61K 2039/575 (2013.01); C07K 2319/02 (2013.01); C07K 2319/21 (2013.01); C07K 2319/22 (2013.01); C07K 2319/40 (2013.01); C07K 2319/70 (2013.01); C07K 2319/735 (2013.01); C12N 2760/18522 (2013.01); C12N 2760/18534 (2013.01); C12N 2760/18571 (2013.01)] | 18 Claims |
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1. A method of preventing Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) infection in a human infant comprising administering to a pregnant woman an effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition comprising (1) a mutant of a wild-type RSV F protein and (2) a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, wherein the mutant comprises (a) a F1 polypeptide and a F2 polypeptide and (b) at least one introduced amino acid mutation relative to the amino acid sequence of the wild-type RSV F protein, wherein the introduced amino acid mutation is a pair of cysteine mutations selected from the group consisting of: (i) 55C and 188C; (ii) 103C and 148C; and (iii) 142C and 371C, and wherein amino acid positions are numbered according to SEQ ID NO:1.
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