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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 16, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Naohito Aoki, Munich, DE;
Axel Ullrich, Munchen, DE;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ; C12N / ; C12N / ; C07H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435194 ; 435196 ; 4352523 ; 4353201 ; 536 232 ; 536 2431 ; 530350 ; 530300 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a novel polypeptide, PTP20, and to nucleic acid molecules encoding the polypeptide. The invention also relates to nucleic acid molecules encoding portions of the phosphatase, nucleic acid vectors containing PTP20 related nucleic acid molecules, recombinant cells containing such nucleic acid vectors, polypeptides purified from such recombinant cells, antibodies to such polypeptides, and methods of identifying compounds that bind PTP20 or abrogate its interactions with natural binding partners. Also disclosed are methods for diagnosing abnormal conditions in an organism with PTP20 related molecules or compounds.