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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1996
Tsutomu Nobori, San Diego, CA (US);
Dennis A Carson, San Diego, CA (US);
Kenji Takabayashi, San Diego, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for the detecting whether methyladenosine phosphatase (MTAse) is present in a cell sample in either a catalytically active or catalytically inactive form. In one respect, the method comprises adding oligonucleotide probes to the sample, which probes are capable of specifically hybridizing to any MTAse encoding nucleic acid in the sample under conditions favoring that hybridization. Absence of MTAse in a sample is considered to be indicative of malignancy. Polynucleotides encoding MTAse, MTAse peptides and antibodies to MTAse, as well as kits for performing the methods of the invention, are provided.