Teijin Limited

Sankyo Company, Limited

Eiko Ohtsuka

Kenichi Masuda

Takashi Kamimura

Takashi Sugiyama

Makoto Koizumi

Atsushi Imaizumi

Masahiro Okada

Kunihito Watanabe

Yohichi Matsumoto

Tetsuya Suga

Akiko Takeuchi

Akihiro Imura

Hideo Inoue

The present invention provides an elastase inhibitory polypeptide comprising a C-terminal half of a human secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor (SLPI) and having an elastase inhibitory activity wherein inhibitory activity of a trypsin-like serine protease does not exceed 1/10 of elastase inhibitory activity, and polypeptides having the above-mentioned biological activity wherein one or more than one amino acid is added, one or more than one amino acid is deleted and/or one or more than one amino acid is replaced. The present invention also provides a process for the production of the above-mentioned protein or other protein via a corresponding fused protein.

Elastase inhibitory polypeptide and process for production thereof by

Looped, hairpin ribozyme

Pyridopyrimidine nucleotide derivatives expressed by formula (I), which are fluorescent and capable of forming base pairing with guanine or adenine, and oligo- or polynucleotide which have at least one of these derivatives in their molecules or at their molecular terminals: ##STR1## wherein X.sub.1 and X.sub.1 respectively represent ##STR2## (in which n indicates an integer of 0, 1, 2, or 3; however, in no case X.sub.1 and Y.sub.1 both indicate n=O); Z.sub.1 indicates a hydrogen atom or ##STR3## (in which n indicates an integer of 1, 2, or 3); W.sub.1 indicates a hydrogen atom or a hydroxyl group. As for R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, in case where R.sub.1 is an amino group or halogen, R.sub.2 indicates a single bond between the carbon atom at the 7-position and the nitrogen atom at the 8-position, and in case where R.sub.2 is a hydrogen atom or an lower alkyl group, R.sub.1 indicates a carbonyl bond ##STR4## formed with the carbon atom at the 7-position.

Pyridopyrimidine nucleotide compounds

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Eiko Ohtsuka