METHOD AND MEANS FOR CONCENTRATING, REMOVING, AND DETECTING GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA

摘要

The invention relates to polypeptides comprising an enzymatically inactive, cell wall-forming domain of an endolysin or another cell wall-lytic enzyme as well as a sequence according to SEQ ID NO: 1 or derivatives thereof, said polypeptide comprising no other endolysin domains in addition to the cell wall-forming domain. Also disclosed are means for producing said polypeptides. The invention further relates to methods for binding, concentrating, removing from a sample, trapping, and/or detecting bacteria, particularly gram-positive bacteria.