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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 1995
Filed:
Oct. 13, 1993
Mona Ivey-Hoyle, King of Prussia, PA (US);
Allen I Oliff, Gwynedd Valley, PA (US);
David C Heimbrook, Ringoes, NJ (US);
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a novel protein with E2F-like properties and the cDNA that encodes for that protein. The purified protein exhibits biological activity which is deemed important to medical science in the study of cell cycle regulation in general and the specific study of the Rb rumor suppressor protein and certain viral oncogenes. The protein may be employed in a complex with pRb or other cellular proteins to study inhibitors of biochemical transformations of those proteins, such as for example the phosphorylation of the pRb portion of the complex, therefore aiding in the study of potential pharmaceutical agents useful against certain oncoproteins encoded by DNA tumor viruses.