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  • Chimaeric Protein
    Publication number: 20120177675
    Abstract: The present invention provides a chimaeric coronavirus S protein which is based on an S protein from a coronavirus strain with restricted tissue tropism, but which comprises at least part of the S2 subunit from a coronavirus strain with extended tissue tropism, such that a virus comprising the chimaeric S protein has extended tissue tropism. The present invention also provides a virus comprising such a chimaeric S protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2010
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH
    Inventors: Paul Britton, Erica Bickerton, Maria Armesto
  • Chimaeric protein
    Patent number: 8828407
    Abstract: The present invention provides a chimaeric coronavirus S protein which is based on an S protein from a coronavirus strain with restricted tissue tropism, but which comprises at least part of the S2 subunit from a coronavirus strain with extended tissue tropism, such that a virus comprising the chimaeric S protein has extended tissue tropism. The present invention also provides a virus comprising such a chimaeric S protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: The Pirbright Institute
    Inventors: Paul Britton, Erica Bickerton, Maria Armesto