ABC transporter
OwnerRichard Lloyd Warreninventor
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Abstract
The invention provides ABC transporter polypeptides and polynucleotides encoding ABC transporter polypeptides and methods for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques. Also provided are methods for utilizing ABC transporter polypeptides to screen for antibacterial compounds.
Claims15
An isolated polypeptide selected from the group consisting of:
- (i) an isolated polypeptide comprising an amino acid having at least:
- (a) 70% identity;
- (b) 80% identity;
- (c) 90% identity;
- or
- (d) 95% identity
- to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2 over the entire length of SEQ ID NO:2;
- (ii) an isolated polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2,
- (iii) an isolated polypeptide which is the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2, and
- (iv) a polypeptide which is encoded by a recombinant polynucleotide comprising the polynucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:1.
An isolated polynucleotide selected from the group consisting of:
- (i) an isolated polynucleotide comprising a polynucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide that has at least
- (a) 70% identity;
- (b) 80% identity;
- (c) 90% identity;
- or
- (d) 95% identity;
- to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2, over the entire length of SEQ ID NO:2;
- (ii) an isolated polynucleotide comprising a polynucleotide sequence that has at least:
- (a) 70% identity;
- (b) 80% identity;
- (c) 90% identity;
- or
- (d) 95% identity;
- over its entire length to a polynucleotide sequence encoding the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO:2;
- (iii) an isolated polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence which has at least:
- (a) 70% identity;
- (b) 80% identity;
- (c) 90% identity;
- or
- (d) 95% identity;
- to that of SEQ ID NO:1 over the entire length of SEQ ID NO:1;
- (iv) an isolated polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO:2;
- (v) an isolated polynucleotide which is the polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO:
- 1;
- (vi) an isolated polynucleotide obtainable by screening an appropriate library under stringent hybridization conditions with a probe having the sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 or a fragment thereof;
- (vii) an isolated polynucleotide encoding a mature polypeptide expressed by the ABC transporter gene contained in the Staphylococcus aureus;
- and
- (viii) a polynucleotide sequence complementary to said isolated polynucleotide of (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi) or (vii).
A computer readable medium having stored thereon a member selected from the group consisting of:
- a polynucleotide comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:1;
- a polypeptide comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:2;
- a set of polynucleotide sequences wherein at least one of said sequences comprises the sequence of SEQ ID NO:1;
- a set of polypeptide sequences wherein at least one of said sequences comprises the sequence of SEQ ID NO:2;
- a data set representing a polynucleotide sequence comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:1;
- a data set representing a polynucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide sequence comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:2;
- a polynucleotide comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:1;
- a polypeptide comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:2;
- a set of polynucleotide sequences wherein at least one of said sequences comprises the sequence of SEQ ID NO:1;
- a set of polypeptide sequences wherein at least one of said sequences comprises the sequence of SEQ ID NO:2;
- a data set representing a polynucleotide sequence comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:1;
- a data set representing a polynucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide sequence comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:2.
A computer based method for performing homology identification, said method comprising the steps of providing a polynucleotide sequence comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 in a computer readable medium;
- and comparing said polynucleotide sequence to at least one polynucleotide or polypeptide sequence to identify homology.
A further embodiment of the invention provides a computer based method for polynucleotide assembly, said method comprising the steps of:
- providing a first polynucleotide sequence comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 in a computer readable medium;
- and screening for at least one overlapping region between said first polynucleotide sequence and a second polynucleotide sequence.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.