NOVEL PROTEINS AND NUCLEIC ACIDS ENCODING SAME

• Main Authors: GERLACH, VALERIE L, BERGHS, CONSTANCE, ZHONG, MEI, ELLERMAN, KAREN, PENA, CAROL E. A, ROTHENBERG, MARK E, MACDOUGALL, JOHN R, SMITHSON, GLENNDA, JI, WEIZHEN, GUO, XIAOJIA, EDINGER, SHLOMIT R, DIPIPPO, VINCENT A, SHENOY, SURESH G, LAROCHELLE, WILLIAM J, LI, LI, ANDERSON, DAVID W, LEPLEY, DENISE M, KEKUDA, RAMESH, GANGOLLI, ESHA A, ALSOBROOK, JOHN P., II, VOSS, EDWARD Z, SPYTEK, KIMBERLY A, STONE, DAVID J, TAUPIER, RAYMOND J., JR, HALVORSEN, YUAN-DI, PEYMAN, JOHN A, VERNET, CORINE A. M, RIEGER, DANIEL K, SPADERNA, STEVEN K, AGEE, MICHELE L, HERRMANN, JOHN L, CATTERTON, ELINA, PATTURAJAN, MEERA, KHRAMTSOV, NIKOLAI V, BOLDOG, FERENC L, ORT, TATIANA, BURGESS, CATHERINE E, GORMAN, LINDA, MILLER, CHARLES E, PADIGARU, MURALIDHARA, EISEN, ANDREW, GOULD-ROTHBERG, BONNIE E
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 10.06.2004
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL ORENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYMOLOGY; FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIREDCHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERSFROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEASURING; MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEICACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PEPTIDES; PHYSICS; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPIRITS; TESTING; VINEGAR; WINE

The present invention provides novel isolated polynucleotides and small molecule target polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotides. Antibodies that immunospecifically bind to a novel small molecule target polypeptide or any derivative, variant, mutant or fragment of that polypeptide, polynucleotide or antibody are disclosed, as are methods in which the small molecule target polypeptide, polynucleotide and antibody are utilized in the detection and treatment of a broad range of pathological states. More specifically, the present invention discloses methods of using recombinantly expressed and/or endogenously expressed proteins in various screening procedures for the purpose of identifying therapeutic antibodies and therapeutic small molecule s associated with diseases. The invention further discloses therapeutic, diagnostic and research methods for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disorders involving any one of these novel human nucleic acids and proteins.