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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 1997
Filed:
Feb. 14, 1994
Mark Henry Pausch, Robbinsville, NJ (US);
Bradley A Ozenberger, Yardley, PA (US);
John Richard Hadcock, Mount Holly, NJ (US);
Laura Alicia Price, Langhorne, PA (US);
Eileen Marie Kajkowski, Ringoes, NJ (US);
Donald Richard Kirsch, Princeton, NJ (US);
Deborah Tardy Chaleff, Pennington, NJ (US);
American Cyanamid Company, Madison, NJ (US);
Abstract
A first aspect of the present invention is directed to a transformed yeast cell containing a first heterologous DNA sequence which codes for a G protein-coupled receptor, for example, the somatostatin receptor, and a second heterologous DNA sequence which codes for a G protein .alpha. subunit or portions thereof fused to DNA sequences from the yeast G protein a subunit. A second aspect of the present invention is a transformed yeast cell containing a heterologous DNA sequence which codes for a G protein coupled receptor. A third aspect of the present invention is a method of assaying compounds to determine effects on cell growth.