Patent ID: 9617314
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: C07H,C07K,C12N

Claim:
1. An isolated polypeptide having degradation activity specific to the capsule of Klebsiella pneumoniae capsular type K1 strains, selected from the group consisting of: (a) a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; (b) a polypeptide which is encoded by a polynucleotide which hybridizes under at least high stringency conditions with (i) the polypeptide coding sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, or (ii) a full-length complementary strand of (i); and (c) a polypeptide which is encoded by the polynucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, wherein the isolated polypeptide comprises a peptide tag.