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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 03, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Shuichi Tsuji, Saitama, JP;
Yukiko Yoshida, Saitama, JP;
Naoya Kojima, Saitama, JP;
Nobuyuki Kurosawa, Saitama, JP;
Toshiro Hamamoto, Saitama, JP;
Assignee:
The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Saitama, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ; C12N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435193 ; 536 232 ;
Abstract
The subject invention provides Sia.alpha.2,3 Gal.beta.1,4GlcNAc.alpha.2,8-sialyltransferase and an enzymatically active fragment thereof, and a nucleotide sequence encoding said sialyltransferase. The subject invention also provides an extracellularly releasable protein capable of catalyzing Sia.alpha.2,3Gal.beta.1,4GlcNAc.alpha.2,8-sialyltransfer which comprises the enzymatically active fragment of the Sia.alpha.2,3Gal.beta.1,4GlcNAc.alpha.2,8-sialyltransferase together with a signal peptide.