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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2013
Filed:
May. 21, 2010
Applicant:
David Donovan, Baltimore, MD (US);
Inventor:
David Donovan, Baltimore, MD (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, DC (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 38/54 (2006.01); C07H 21/04 (2006.01); C12N 15/63 (2006.01); C12N 5/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Lysostaphin is a bacteriocin secreted byto kill, and has been shown to also be a potent antimicrobial for many antibiotic-resistant strains of. By adding a ˜13 amino acid protein transduction domain (PTD) from the HIV-TAT protein to lysostaphin to form lysostaphin-PTD, both extracellular and intracellular forms ofand MRSA are killed in all (multiple) cell types examined.