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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 16, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ronald J Weigel, Woodside, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-6 ; 435-71 ;
Abstract
ERF-1 is shown to be a transcriptional regulator of the expression of the estrogen receptor, where elevated ERF-1 is related to elevated expression of the estrogen receptor. By monitoring the level of ERF-1, one can relate phenotypic characteristics of carcinomas expressing ERF-1 as prognostic of the response of the tumor to various therapies. In addition, ERF-1 may be used for screening therapeutic drugs which may act as antagonists to initiation of estrogen receptor transcription.