Signal peptide for the secretion of peptides in Escherichia coli

US5159062A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Behringwerke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Stefan Knapp · Marburg, DE
• Egon Amann · Marburg, DE
• Karl-Josef Abel · Marburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 19, 1990
• Grant date: Oct 27, 1992
• Expiry date: Jan 19, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S530/825
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to a new signal peptide from Bordetella pertussis with the amino acid sequence M K K W F V A A G I G A G L L M L S S A A and to particularly suitable expression vectors with whose aid such signal sequences can be found and/or evaluated.