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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019
Filed:
May. 07, 2015
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (US);
Inserm, Paris, FR;
Matteo Porotto, New York, NY (US);
Anne Moscona, New York, NY (US);
Branka Horvat, Lyons, FR;
Cyrille Mathieu, Lyons, FR;
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (US);
INSERM, Paris, FR;
Abstract
The present application relates to an inhibitor of fusion between a viral membrane from an enveloped virus and a cell membrane, where the viral membrane comprises a fusion mediating protein including a C-terminal peptide. The inhibitor comprises the C-terminal peptide of the fusion mediating protein from an enveloped virus and tocopherol or a derivative or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof attached to the C-terminal peptide. Also disclosed is a pharmaceutical composition including the inhibitor as well as methods of inhibiting viral fusion, blocking viral spread, and preventing or treating viral infection, with the inhibitor or pharmaceutical composition.