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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:
Dec. 17, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 02, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
H Shelton Earp, III, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Doug Graham, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Thomas L Dawson, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
David L Mullaney, Middletown, CT (US);
Hiram R Snodgrass, Powell, OH (US);
Assignee:
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07K / ; C07K / ; C12N / ; C12N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
4352523 ; 435 691 ; 435 697 ; 4353201 ; 530350 ; 536 234 ; 536 235 ;
Abstract
Isolated DNAs encoding a mammalian c-mer receptor which exhibits c-mer protooncogene activity and tyrosine kinase activity are disclosed. Also disclosed are vectors containing such DNAs, host cells containing such DNAs, c-mer receptor proteins, and soluble axl receptors, chimeric proteins including the extracellular domain of the c-mer receptor and DNAs encoding such chimeric proteins, and antibodies which specifically bind the c-mer receptor.