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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 02, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Patrick W Kleyn, Cambridge, MA (US);
Karen J Moore, Maynard, MA (US);
Rosana Kapeller, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);
Assignee:
Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; C12Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-4 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to the identification of novel nucleic acid molecules and proteins encoded by such nucleic acid molecules or degenerate variants thereof, that participate in the control of mammalian body weight. The nucleic acid molecules of the present invention represent the gene corresponding to the mammalian tub gene, a gene that is involved in the regulation of body weight. The present invention also relates to methods for identifying compounds that modulate tub protein activity.