Use of penicillin-binding proteins or polynucleotides or antibodies thereof for preventing or treating bacterial infections

摘要

The present invention is drawn to a penicillin-binding protein expressed by Neisseria meningitidis, or a fragment, or a variant, or a variant fragment thereof, or nucleic acids encoding them, or antibodies directed against them, as medicaments or in pharmaceutical compositions. The invention is also directed to the use of penicillin-binding proteins expressed by Neisseria meningitidis, or nucleic acids encoding them, or antibodies directed against them for the prophylactic and/or therapeutic immunotherapy of mammals, preferably human beings, against infection by Neisseria meningitidis and/or by a bacterial strain expressing a variant of a Neisseria meningitidis penicillin-binding protein.