Patent ID: 9545461
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: A01N,A61L,A61P,C07K

Claim:
1. A wound or surgical dressing comprising: i) a substrate; and ii) an antimicrobial peptide bound to the substrate, wherein the antimicrobial peptide has a length of from 10 amino acids to 50 amino acids, wherein the antimicrobial peptide comprises an amino acid sequence having at least 95% amino acid sequence identity to a contiguous stretch of from 10 amino acids to 35 amino acids of the sequence YSYGSGLGVGGGFSSSSGRAIGGGLSSVGGGSSTIKYTTT SSSSR (SEQ ID NO:63), and wherein the antimicrobial peptide contains at least one phosphorylated tyrosine residue.