Patent ID: 9573979
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: A61K,A61P,C07K,C12N

Claim:
1. A pharmaceutical composition comprising a modified VP1-capsid protein of parvovirus B19, wherein a wild type sequence of the VP-1 capsid protein has been modified to contain amino acid substitutions at positions corresponding to histidine 153 of SEQ ID NO:1, tyrosine 157 of SEQ ID NO:1, lysine 162 of SEQ ID NO:1, and tyrosine 168 of SEQ ID NO:1, wherein said substitutions are histidine 153 to alanine, tyrosine 157 to phenylalanine, lysine 162 to leucine, and tyrosine 168 to phenylalanine, and wherein said modified VP1-capsid protein has a reduced phospholipase A2 enzyme activity as compared to the wild type VP1-capsid protein.