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Genzyme Corporation

Ake Lundwall

William R Dackowski

Anders Grubb

Henrik Dalboge

Robert Wydro

Edward Cohen

Magnus Abrahamson

A recombinant cystatin C polypeptide or a derivative thereof, such as 3-des-hydroxy-cystatin C, is produced biosynthetically by fermentation of a microorganism into which plasmids containing a DNA-sequence coding for said polypeptide have been introduced. Preparations containing recombinant cystatin C, preferably 3-des-hydroxy-cystatin C, have a higher cystein proteinase inhibitor activity than native cystatin C, isolated from human fluids. Such preparations are useful in therapeutic treatments of patients suffering from different diseases, for example herbes simplex.

Recombinant 3-des-OH-cystatin C produced by expression in a procaryotic

Disclosed are a transformed mammalian cell that produces biologically active Protein S, and a vector for effecting the transformation of the cell. produces biologically active human Protein S, and the vector used to effect the transgenesis of the cell. The vector disclosed includes DNA encoding mature human Protein S, under the transcriptional control of a eukaryotic metallothionein gene, and also includes the transforming region of the bovine papilloma virus genome, and a fragment of SV40 DNA.

Vector containing DNA encoding mature human protein S

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Lund, Sweden

Ake Lundwall