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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:
May. 07, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Patrick J O'Hara, Seattle, WA (US);
Francis J Grant, Seattle, WA (US);
Paul O Sheppard, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Zymogenetics, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07H / ; C12N / ; C12N / ; C12N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
4352402 ; 435 692 ; 435193 ; 4353201 ; 4352543 ; 536 232 ; 536 2434 ;
Abstract
Human prostatic and placental transglutaminases are identified and cloned. The human transglutaminases herein are useful for, inter alia, therapeutic wound repair, closure of skin grafts, stabilizing food preparations, and markers for identifying agents which act as agonists or antagonists of cellular apoptosis.