Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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Technion Research & Development Foundation Ltd

Ami Aronheim

Arie Abo

Yuval Shaked

Ella Fremder

A method for treating cancer and/or preventing or reducing metastasis or treating angiogenesis related disorders comprising the step of administering IL-31 or peptide which is at least about 70%, homologous to the IL-31 sequence as set forth in SEQ ID No. 1.

Method of treating cancer with compositions comprising IL-31

The present invention relates to an isolated full-length Chp polypeptide, a biologically-active polypeptide fragment thereof, and nucleic acids which code for it. This polypeptide has various activities in regulating cell signaling and signal transduction pathways, including, e.g., a PAK regulatory domain binding activity, a PAK kinase stimulatory activity, a JNK kinase stimulatory activity, a cytoskeletal-reorganizing activity, or a Chp-specific immunogenic activity. The invention relates to all aspects of Chp, or homologs thereof, including assays for modulators, activators, ligands, etc.

Nucleic acids and polypeptides which resemble Rho and which interact with cell signalling pathways and proteins

A method for detecting an interaction between two tester proteins. In a cell incapable of activating a Ras protein, two nucleic acid sequences are expressed. One sequence encodes for a fusion protein comprising a mutant Ras protein incapable of localizing at the cell membrane and not requiring an exchange factor fused to one of the tester proteins. The other sequence encodes for the other tester protein fused to a plasma membrane localization domain. An interaction between the two fusion proteins leads to the expression of a functional Ras protein that is tested as an altered cell phenotype.

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