Crystal structure of Staphylococcus aureus clumping factor A in complex with fibrinogen derived peptide and uses thereof
Abstract
The present invention provides a method for determining the structure of a microbial surface components recognizing adhesive matrix molecule in complex with fibrinogen, by providing a ClfA complexed with a fibrinogen gamma-peptide; determining a ClfA binding region of the fibrinogen gamma-peptide; determining one or more critical amino acid residues in the ClfA binding region of a native fibrinogen gamma-peptide that is critical for a ClfA:fibrinogen gamma-peptide interaction; determining one or more amino acid residues of the ClfA that binds to the ClfA binding region of the native fibrinogen gamma-peptide; modeling the structure of the ClfA binding region; determining the structure of the ClfA in complex with the :fibrinogen gamma-peptide interaction; and identifying one or more potential agent(s) that inhibit the ClfA:fibrinogen gamma-peptide interaction without affecting binding of other proteins to the fibrinogen gamma-peptide.
Subject
702/19C07K 16/1271
A61K 38/363
C07K 16/36
G01N 33/68
A61P 31/04
C07K 16/18
C07K 14/75
C07K 14/31
A61K 38/00
G01N 2333/31
G01N 2333/75
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Citation
Hook, Magnus; Ko, Ya-ping; Smeds, Emanuel; Ganesh, Vannakambadi K. (2012). Crystal structure of Staphylococcus aureus clumping factor A in complex with fibrinogen derived peptide and uses thereof. United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Texas A&M University. Libraries. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /177006.