Antibodies against obm

• Main Authors: WASHIDA NAOHIRO, TOMOYASU AKIHIRO, YANO KAZUKI, TSUDA EISUKE, SHIMA NOBUYUKI, KINOSAKI MASAHIKO, NAKAGAWA NOBUAKI, TAKAHASHI KEN, KOBAYASHI FUMIE, HIGASHIO KANJI, GOTO MASAAKI, YAMAGUCHI KYOJI, YASUDA HISATAKA, MORINAGA TOMONORI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Hungarian
• Published: 29.09.2014
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY; 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; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; PHYSICS; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS; SPIRITS; TESTING; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS; TRANSPORTING; VINEGAR; WINE

A novel protein which binds to Osteoclastogenesis Inhibitory Factor (OCIF-binding molecule; OBM), a process for preparing the same, DNA encoding said protein, a protein having an amino acid sequence encoded by this DNA, a method for producing said protein by genetic engineering technique, and a pharmaceutical composition containing said protein. Screening methods for a substance for controlling expression of said protein using said protein and the DNA, a substance which inhibits or modulates the biological activity of said protein, or a receptor which transmits the action of said protein through binding to said protein, the substance obtained by the screening methods, and a pharmaceutical composition which contains this substance. An antibody for said protein, a process for preparing the same, a measuring method of said protein using the antibody, and a medicine comprising this antibody.