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SUBMITTER: McLellan JS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4461862 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20131101 6158
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of hospitalization for children under 5 years of age. We sought to engineer a viral antigen that provides greater protection than currently available vaccines and focused on antigenic site Ø, a metastable site specific to the prefusion state of the RSV fusion (F) glycoprotein, as this site is targeted by extremely potent RSV-neutralizing antibodies. Structure-based design yielded stabilized versions of RSV F that maintained antigenic site Ø ...[more]