Loma Linda University

Jingxue Liu

Alan P Escher

A method for preventing, delaying the onset of or treating diabetes in a patient comprising selecting a patient who is susceptible to developing diabetes, who is developing diabetes or who is diabetic and administering to the patient one or more than one dose of a pharmaceutical agent comprising a polynucleotide encoding a secreted exogenous protein, such as a secreted luciferase or a secreted form of human glutamic acid decarboxylase.

Method of delaying the onset of diabetes

A polynucleotide encoding a secreted form of wild type Renilla luciferase. Also provided is a polynucleotide encoding a secreted modified form of wild type Renilla luciferase. Additionally, the polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotides of the present invention and uses of the polynucleotides and polypeptides of the present invention in biological assays. Also, a stable mammalian packaging cell line which produces retroviruses carrying a polynucleotide encoding a secreted Renilla luciferase.

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Concord, CA, United States of America

Jingxue Liu