Compound ID | 3517
Class: Lysin
Spectrum of activity: | Gram-negative |
Details of activity: | Active against Acinetobacter baumannii (without addition of EDTA to act as sensitizer); cell wall active agent (i.e. partial degradation of the peptidoglycan) and membrane-active agent |
Description: | Synthetic bacteriophage lysin; engineered lysin containing a outer-membrane permeabilizing peptide from cecropin A , the cell wall binding domain of bacteriophage ϕKZ, a linker, and an enzymatically active domain of the virion-associated lysin of phage BcepC6B |
Year first mentioned: | 1999 |
Development status: | Experimental |