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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 1983
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
William F Feller, Bethesda, MD (US);
Judith A Kantor, Rockville, MD (US);
Jack G Chirikjian, Rockville, MD (US);
Terence M Phillips, Washington, DC (US);
Assignee:
Research Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ; G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
436516 ; 435-7 ; 435 15 ; 436530 ; 436531 ; 436542 ;
Abstract
A method for diagnosing mammalian breast cancer by detecting in the physiological fluid of said mammal an antigen (ACRT) having immune cross-reactivity with human reverse transcriptase, or detecting antibodies against said ACRT or detecting antibody-ACRT complexes, wherein the reverse transcriptase is substantially purified, has a molecular of about 70,000 and a sedimentation coefficient on a glycerol gradient of between 5 and 5.5 S. A process for the purification of reverse transcriptase from human milk.