Chemistry: natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; – Proteins – i.e. – more than 100 amino acid residues
Patent
1991-09-17
1995-06-06
Furman, Keith C.
Chemistry: natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins;
Proteins, i.e., more than 100 amino acid residues
530300, 530324, 530325, 530326, 530327, 530328, 530329, 530330, 530402, 530825, C07K 1400, C07K 1600, C07K 1700
Patent
active
054224276
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates, in general, to pneumococcal fimbrial protein A. In particular, the present invention relates to a DNA segment encoding a pneumococcal fimbrial protein A gene; polypeptides encoded by said DNA segment; recombinant DNA molecules containing the DNA segment; cells containing the recombinant DNA molecule; a method of producing a pneumococcal fimbrial protein A polypeptide; antibodies specific to pneumococcal fimbrial protein A; and a method of measuring the amount of pneumococcal fimbrial protein A in a sample.
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O'Connor Steven P.
Russell Harold
Sampson Jacquelyn
Furman Keith C.
Kim Hyosuk
The United States of America as represented by the United States
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