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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 10, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Page W. Caufield, Birmingham, AL (US);
Jan Novak, Birmingham, AL (US);
Assignee:
The UAB Research Foundation, Birmingham, AL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/800 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/800 ;
Abstract
Certain bacteria indigenous to humans produce antimicrobial substances called bacteriocins which inhibit other bacteria, including members of their own species. Mutacins are a class of antibiotic substances made by Disclosed is the purification and biochemical characterization of a novel lanthionine-containing mutacin peptide from The purified peptide is pH- and temperature-stable and its amino acid composition indicates the presence of lanthionine and &bgr;-methyllanthionine. Also provided are methods of making and using the purified polypeptide.