Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Amrad Operations Pty Ltd

Lorraine Robb

Richard P Harvey

Harshal Hanumant Nandurkar

Glenn C Begley

Colin Glenn Begley

The present invention relates generally to a regulatory molecule and to genetic sequences encoding same. More particularly, the present invention provides a molecule involved in, associated with or which otherwise facilitates myogenesis. In a particularly preferred embodiment, the regulatory molecule is a transcription factor involved in the expression of genes resulting in the determination of skeletal muscle (a sequence encoding the regulatory molecule is disclosed within the specification as Seq. Id. No: 2). The identification of the regulatory molecule of the present invention permits the development of agents capable of modulating myogenesis including therapeutic agents capable of ameliorating aberrations in pyogenesis such as but not limited to myogenic cancers.

Isolated nucleic acid encoding murine musculin

The present invention relates to a method for modulating fertility in an animal by administering an effective amount of IL- or derivatives or homologues thereof or an effective amount of an agonist or antagonist of the interaction between IL- and IL- R&agr;.

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North Melbourne, Australia

Lorraine Robb