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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 1999
Filed:
May. 23, 1994
Giulio Draetta, Winchester, MA (US);
Mark Rolfe, Newton Upper Falls, MA (US);
Jens W Eckstein, Cambridge, MA (US);
Mitotix, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention concerns a novel human ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme which is implicated in the ubiquitin-mediated inactivation of cell-cycle regulatory proteins, partucularly p53. The present invention makes available diagnostic and therapeutic assays and reagents for detecting and treating transformed cells, such as may be useful in the detection of cancer. The present invention also provides reagents for altering the normal regulation cell proliferation in untransformed cells, such as by upregulating certain cell-cycle checkpoints, e.g. to protect normal cells against DNA damaging reagents.