tdk
AssigneeSmithKline Beecham Corporation
InventorsMartin Karl Russel Burnham, Sanjoy Biswas, Alison Francis Chalker, Karen Anne Ingraham, Christopher Michael Traini, Patrick Vernon Warren, Magdalena Zalacain
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Abstract
The invention provides tdk polypeptides polynucleotides encoding tdk polypeptides and methods for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques. Also provided are methods for utilizing tdk polypeptides to screen for antibacterial compounds.
Claims10
An isolated thymidylate kinase comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 95% identity with the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:2.
An isolated thymidylate kinase comprising a polypeptide, wherein the polypeptide consists of an amino acid sequence identical to SEQ ID NO:
- 2 except that, over the entire length corresponding to SEQ ID NO:
- 2, one to five amino acids are substituted, deleted or inserted.
An isolated thymidylate kinase comprising SEQ ID NO:2.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.