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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 03, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas Sayers, Boonsboro, MD (US);
Mark J Smyth, Lower Plenty, AU;
Theresa A Wiltrout, Frederick, MD (US);
James C Powers, Atlanta, GA (US);
Raymond Sowder, Frederick, MD (US);
Louis E Henderson, Newmarket, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; C12N / ; C12N / ; C07H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-6 ; 4352402 ; 4352523 ; 4353201 ; 536 232 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a purified and isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding serine protease (Met-ase) having Met-ase activity but not Asp-ase activity and a molecular weight of about 30,000 daltons on SDS PAGE under reducing and non-reducing conditions. The present invention also provides a vector comprising this nucleic acid molecule, a prokaryotic or eukaryotic host cell stably transformed or transfected with the vector, as well as a method for detecting this nucleic acid in a sample.