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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1990
Richard M Synenki, Terre Haute, IN (US);
Peter M Rubinelli, Terre Haute, IN (US);
Henry E Auer, Terre Haute, IN (US);
James E Seely, Terre Haute, IN (US);
Other;
Abstract
The present invention provides a stable and bioactive recombinant small-loop modified somatotropin which has its small-loop cysteines changed to other amino acids or deleted altogether and a method for producing such a small-loop modified somatotropin. Also provided by the present invention are DNA sequences coding for such small-loop modified somatotropins, plasmids containing such sequences, and organisms containing such plasmids. Furthermore, pharmaceutical compositions including small-loop modified somatotropins and methods for using such pharmaceutical compositions are disclosed.