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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:
Sep. 09, 1997
Filed:
Nov. 22, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard A Lerner, La Jolla, CA (US);
Victoria A Roberts, San Diego, CA (US);
Elizabeth D Getzoff, San Diego, CA (US);
John A Tainer, San Diego, CA (US);
Stephen J Benkovic, State College, PA (US);
Assignee:
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; C12N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
5303873 ; 4241331 ; 435 696 ; 4351723 ; 4352523 ; 43525233 ;
Abstract
The invention describes a metal binding protein capable of forming a coordination complex with a metal cation. The protein contains a sequence of amino acid residues that defines a variable domain of an immunoglobulin light chain having a L1 region and a L3 region, and also contains three contact amino acid residues in the variable domain that participate as ligands for the metal coordination complex.