Looking for an academic partner for your discovery projects?
Looking for an academic partner for your discovery projects?
Ghent University offers a unique proposal: the collaboration between veterinarians, physicians and scientists from different disciplines present at Ghent University takes the research to a higher level and creates many opportunities for innovation. At our Faculty of Veterinary Medicine these innovations can be tested in our own facilities and on the target species.
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Ghent University offers a unique proposal: the collaboration between veterinarians, physicians and scientists from different disciplines present at Ghent University takes the research to a higher level and creates many opportunities for innovation. At our Faculty of Veterinary Medicine these innovations can be tested in our own facilities and on the target species.
Check what we can offer in these fields
Therapeutics
A chimeric endolysin to control streptococcal bovine mastitis
A novel endolysin that lyses steptococci, even intra mammary epithelial cells and in biofilms
The endolysin is a chimeric fusion protein with lytic properties consisting of a selected combination of enzymatically active domains (so called EADs), which define the enzyme’s cleavage sites, and a cell wall-binding domain (so called CBD), which confers its bacterial specificity
The endolysin can kill streptococci both intracellular in the mammary epithelial cells and in biofilms. It can thus counteract two important virulence factors that otherwise allow these pathogens to circumvent therapy with traditional antibiotics leading to an infection that chronically persists and reoccurs after treatment.
Proof of concept in raw milk
Lytic and killing activity demonstrated against 10 S. uberis, 3 S. agalactiae & 3 S. dysgalactiae strains. Moreover, the endolysin potentiates the antibiotic cloxacillin in raw mastitic milk and kills S. uberis significantly faster in vitro than the antibiotic alone, independent from milk composition.
Partnering
We are reaching out to partners who are interested in development and marketing of our novel engineered endolysin NC5.