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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:
Jan. 14, 1997
Filed:
Aug. 23, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jeffrey N Higaki, Mountain View, CA (US);
Edmund G Tischer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Barbara Cordell, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Stewart A Thompson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Scios Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ; C07K / ; C07K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435 691 ; 530350 ; 530399 ; 536 235 ;
Abstract
There are disclosed neurotrophic factors which are capable of being expressed as polypeptides lacking the microheterogeneity associated with a related native-sequence factor, CNTF. Also disclosed are DNA sequences encoding the neurotrophic factors and methods for expressing and recovering the factors as homogeneous polypeptides.