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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2010
Simone Oliveira, New Brighton, MN (US);
Simone Oliveira, New Brighton, MN (US);
Regents of the University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides isolated polypeptides having oligopeptide permease activity and an amino acid sequence that has at least 80% identity with aOppA polypeptide. Also provided by the present invention are isolated polynucleotides that encode the polypeptides described herein, and antibody that specifically binds a polypeptide described herein. The present invention further provides genetically modified microbes, such as attenuatedstrains and other microbes that express polypeptides described herein. Also included are methods for using the polypeptides, polynucleotides, antibody, and genetically modified microbes.