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Patent Inventor Names
Tonatiuh Melgarejo0
Frank Blecha0
Maria Teresa Ortega0
Yongming Sang0
Date of Patent
July 26, 2011
Patent Application Number
12087228
Date Filed
December 29, 2006
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Patent abstract
The invention relates to antimicrobial cathelicidin polypeptides related to a 38 amino acid peptide having SEQ ID NO:4. The invention provides for polypeptides having broad spectrum antimicrobial activity, nucleic acids and expression vectors encoding such polypeptides, as well as host cells and methods of reducing survival of a microbe. In addition, the invention also provides compositions, as well as articles of manufacture, that comprise a broad spectrum antimicrobial polypeptide.
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