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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:
Jul. 21, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 04, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alice Marcy, Westfield, NJ (US);
Scott P Salowe, Dayton, NJ (US);
Douglas Wisniewski, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ; G01N / ; G01N / ; G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-71 ; 435-75 ; 435-772 ; 435-78 ; 435 697 ; 435 712 ; 4353201 ; 530324 ; 530344 ; 530350 ; 530415 ; 536 234 ; 536 241 ;
Abstract
This application describes a high throughput assay for screening for compounds capable of binding to a fusion protein which consists of a target protein and an FK506-binding protein. The method for preparing the DNA encoding for the fusion protein and for expressing that DNA is also described in the application. The invention also discloses the recombinant DNA and protein sequences for several fusion proteins.