The invention provides FabK polypeptides and polynucleotides encoding FabK polypeptides and methods for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques. Also provided are preferred methods for utilizing FabK polypeptides and polynucleotides as diagnostic reagents and in diagnostic assays to screen for microbial infections in organisms and infestations in materials.
1. An isolated polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 2.
2. The isolated polynucleotide of claim 1 , further comprising a transcriptional regulatory sequence operably linked to said polynucleotide sequence.
3. The isolated polynucleotide of claim 1 , wherein said polypeptide is fused to a heterologous amino acid sequence.
4. An isolated vector comprising the isolated polynucleotide sequence of claim 1 .
5. An isolated host cell comprising the vector of claim 4 .
6. The host cell of claim 5 , wherein said host cell is prokaryotic or eukaryotic.
7. The host cell of claim 6 , which is a prokaryotic cell.
8. The host cell of claim 6 , which is a eukaryotic cell.
9. The isolated polynucleotide of claim 1 , consisting of a nucleotide sequence encoding the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 2.
10. The isolated polynucleotide of claim 1 , comprising the polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 1.
11. The isolated polynucleotide of claim 10 , consisting of the polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 1.
12. The prokaryotic cell of claim 7 , which is an isolated bacterial cell.
13. The eukaryotic cell of claim 8 , which is an isolated mammalian cell.