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US 6,982,247 B1Granted
Compounds exhibiting an antibiotic activity
AssigneeBrain Corporation
InventorsManfred T. Reetz, Klaus Kühling, Heinz Mehlhorn, Karl-Erich Jäger
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Abstract
The present invention relates to compounds having antibiotic activity which are obtained from body fluids of mollusks, namely of certain West-African snails, to therapeutic drugs comprising these compounds, and to the use thereof for the preparation of a therapeutic drug for controlling infectious pathogens in humans and animals.
Claims11
An isolated and purified peptide or protein comprising at least one of the sequences of SEQ ID NOs:
- 1 to 8 wherein said peptide or protein has antibiotic activity and wherein said peptide or protein is derived from the mucus of the foot sole of Archachatina marginata.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.