Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Catalyst Biosciences, Inc.

The J. David Gladstone Institutes

Trishula Therapeutics, Inc.

Vanessa Soros

Edwin L Madison

Mikhail Popkov

Christopher D Thanos

Eric Steven Furfine

Jeffrey Charles Way

Matthew John Traylor

Kimberly Tipton

Warner C Greene

John Corbin

Kimberly S Stopak

Wesley M Yonemoto

Paul Fredrick Widboom

Maria Kovalenko

Joseph Robert Warfield

Courtney Beers

Carlos M deNoronha

Ya-Lin Chiu

Provided are nucleic acid molecules, including vectors and plasmids, encoding modified u-PA polypeptides and fusion proteins containing the modified u-PA polypeptides. The u-PA polypeptides are modified to have altered activity and/or specificity so that they cleave a complement protein, such as complement protein C3, to thereby inhibit complement activation. The nucleic acids and encoded modified u-PA polypeptides and fusion proteins that inhibit complement activation can be used for treatment of diseases and conditions that are mediated by complement activation, or in which complement activation plays a role. These disorders include ischemic and reperfusion disorders, including myocardial infarction and stroke, sepsis, autoimmune diseases, diabetic retinopathies, age-related macular degeneration, transplanted organ rejection, inflammatory diseases and diseases with an inflammatory component.

Modified urokinase-type plasminogen activator polypeptides and methods of use

Provided are MTSP-1 polypeptides modified to have altered activity and/or specificity so that they cleave a complement protein, such as complement protein C3, to inhibit its activity and thereby inhibit complement activation. The modified MTSP-1 polypeptides that inhibit complement activation can be used for treatment of diseases and conditions in which complement activation plays a role. Such diseases and conditions include inflammatory diseases and diseases with an inflammatory component. Exemplary of these disorders are ischemic and reperfusion disorders, including myocardial infarction and stroke, sepsis, autoimmune diseases, ophthalmic disorders, such as diabetic retinopathies and macular degeneration, including age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and transplanted organ rejection, such as renal delayed graft function (DGF).

Nucleic acid encoding modified membrane type serine protease 1 (MTSP-1) polypeptides and methods of use

Modified membrane type serine protease 1 (MTSP-1) polypeptides and methods of use

Provided are u-PA polypeptides and fusion proteins containing the u-PA polypeptides. The u-PA polypeptides are modified to have altered activity and/or specificity so that they cleave a complement protein, such as complement protein C3, to thereby inhibit complement activation. The modified u-PA polypeptides and fusion proteins that inhibit complement activation can be used for treatment of diseases and conditions that are mediated by complement activation, or in which complement activation plays a role. These disorders include ischemic and reperfusion disorders, including myocardial infarction and stroke, sepsis, autoimmune diseases, diabetic retinopathies, age-related macular degeneration, transplanted organ rejection, inflammatory diseases and diseases with an inflammatory component.

Provided herein are antibodies that selectively bind to CD39 and its isoforms and homologs, and compositions comprising the antibodies. Also provided are methods of using the antibodies, such as therapeutic and diagnostic methods.

Anti-CD39 antibodies

The present invention provides methods of identifying an agent that inhibits an activity of a lentiviral Vif protein. The present invention provides methods of identifying an agent that increases the level of active APOBEC3G in a cell. The present invention provides agents identified by a subject screening method; and further provides methods for treating lentivirus infections.

Methods for treating lentivirus infections

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