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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 21, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jerry Kaplan, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Charles M Perou, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Karen J Moore, Maynard, MA (US);
Assignees:
Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA (US);
The University of Utah Research Foundation, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435325 ; 435-6 ; 4353201 ; 536 235 ;
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 differentiation and/or function of intracellular vesicles. The nucleic acid molecules of the present invention represent the genes corresponding to the mammalian bg gene, a gene that, when mutated, is responsible for the human Chediak-Higashi syndrome.