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Recombinant mersacidin and a method for production

US5667991A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Hoechst GmbH · DE

Inventors

Klaus-Peter Koller · Bad Soden, DE
Hans-Georg Sahl · Bonn, DE
Gabriele Bierbaum · Bonn, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 8, 1995
Grant date	Sep 16, 1997
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 8, 2015

Classification

Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
CPC primaryC07K14/32
WIPO fieldBiotechnology
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The present invention refers in particular to the structural gene sequence of the peptide antibiotic mersacidin. Sequencing revealed that premersacidin consists of an unusually long 48 amino acid leader sequence and a 20 amino acid propeptide part (Seq. ID No:1) which is modified during biosynthesis to the mature lantibiotic.

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