MODIFIED PROTEINS AND THEIR USE FOR CONTROLLING VIRAL INFECTIONS

摘要

The invention relates to pharmaceutical preparations which are suitable for treating or curing viral infections, including influenza and immunodeficiency diseases such as retrovirus infections, including AIDS and AIDS-related diseases, and which can also be used to inhibit fusion of virus-infected cells with non-infected cells, which preparations contain modified proteins or polypeptides as active substance or substance contributing to the action or as carrier for other substances, which are also active, which modified proteins or polypeptides have acquired an additional net negative charge by derivatisation of their amino groups and/or other basic functional groups with a reagent which prevents protonation of basic amino acids and/or other basic functional groups or replaces said basic amino acids and/or other basic functional groups by one or more functional groups having a negative charge, and to modified proteins and polypeptides themselves and the preparation and use thereof.