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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. 30, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael Peter Vitek, East Norwich, NY (US);
Jack Steven Jacobsen, Ramsey, NJ (US);
Assignee:
American Cyanamid Company, Madison, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07K / ; C07K / ; C12N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
530350 ; 530539 ; 514 12 ; 435 691 ; 4351723 ;
Abstract
This application describes a purified and isolated fragment of a nucleic acid molecule encoding an amyloid precursor mutein, wherein the fragment comprises a nucleic acid sequence encoding at least one marker and a nucleic acid sequence of about 419, about 475 or about 494 amino acid residues in which a portion thereof encodes a .beta.-amyloid protein domain. Also described is a method for screening for a compound which reduces the formation of .beta.-amyloid protein.