murF2

US6225457A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• SmithKline Beecham Limited · US

Inventors

• Sanjoy Biswas · Paoli, US
• James Raymond Brown · Berwyn, US
• Martin Karl Russel Burnham · Norristown, US
• Alison Francis Chalker · Trappe, US
• David John Holmes · West Chester, US
• Karen Anne Ingraham · Auburn, US
• Thomas B Mathie · Eagleville, US
• Richard Lloyd Warren · Grantsville, US
• Magdalena Zalacain · West Chester, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 4, 1999
• Grant date: May 1, 2001
• Expiry date: May 4, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07K2319/00
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention provides murF2 polypeptides and polynucleotides encoding murF2 polypeptides and methods for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques. Also provided are methods for utilizing murF2 polypeptides to screen for antibacterial compounds.