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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2015
Applicant:
Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, DE;
Inventors:
Arne Skerra, Freising-Weihenstefan, DE;
Andre Schiefner, Nuremberg, DE;
Assignee:
Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07K 14/24 (2006.01); C07K 14/245 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C07K 14/245 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present inventors have solved the crystal structure of anbacterial lipocalin polypeptide, which depicts a monomeric protein. Previous crystal structures have been reported, but these appear to he inaccurate, as they predicted, e.g., a dimeric protein. The crystal structure of a bacterial lipocalin provided by the present invention leads to numerous uses. For example, the present invention provides for the design, construction and use of recombinant libraries of diversified bacterial lipocalins resulting from a bacterial lipocalin polypeptide 'backbone'.