Claims
- 1. An isolated and purified recombinant nucleic acid encoding a hemoglobin receptor protein from a Neisseria species, wherein the nucleic acid encodes a hemoglobin receptor protein having an amino acid sequence that is the amino acid sequence depicted as Seq. I.D. No. 2.
- 2. A recombinant expression construct comprising a nucleic acid that encodes a hemoglobin receptor protein from a Neisseria species, wherein the nucleic acid encodes a hemoglobin receptor protein having an amino acid sequence that is the amino acid sequence depicted as Seq. I.D. No. 2.
- 3. A transformed cell comprising the recombinant expression construct of claim 2.
Government Interests
This invention was made with government support under National Institute of Health grants R01 AI32493 and R01 AI22933. The government has certain rights to this invention.
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