Amersham Plc

Mark E Shannon

Yizhong Gu

David Kagen Hanzel

David Russell Rank

Sharron Gaynor Penn

Wensheng Chen

Yonggang Ji

Presented are a novel myosin-like protein particularly expressed in human heart and muscle, isolated nucleic acids encoding the myosin-like protein, compounds and compositions derivable directly or indirectly therefrom, and diagnostic and therapeutic methods for using the same.

Polynucleotide encoding a human myosin-like polypeptide expressed predominantly in heart and muscle

The invention provides isolated nucleic acids that encode three novel isoforms of human pregnancy associated plasma protein E, hPAPP-E, and fragments thereof, vectors for propagating and expressing PAPP-E nucleic acids, host cells comprising the nucleic acids and vectors of the present invention, proteins, protein fragments, and protein fusions of the novel PAPP-E isoforms, and antibodies thereto. The invention further provides transgenic cells and non-human organisms comprising human PAPP-E isoform nucleic acids, and transgenic cells and non-human organisms with targeted disruption of the endogenous orthologue of the human PAPP-E gene. The invention further provides pharmaceutical formulations of the nucleic acids, proteins, and antibodies of the present invention, and diagnostic, investigational, and therapeutic methods based on the PAPP-E nucleic acids, proteins, and antibodies of the present invention.

Isoforms of human pregnancy-associated protein-E

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Livermore, CA, United States of America

Mark E Shannon