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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:
Jan. 11, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignees:
Takeda Chemical Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Children's Medical Center Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
530300 ; 530350 ; 435 691 ;
Abstract
A recombinant non-glycosylated mammalian growth factor (BTC-GF) stimulates proliferation of human smooth muscle cells. Especially, the amino acid sequence of the protein deduced from the nucleotide sequence coding for human BTC-GF is as that comprising the amino acids No. 1 to No. 147 of FIG. 10 (SEQ ID NO:18) or the amino acids No. 1 to 80 of FIG. 10, (SEQ ID NO:18) and the amino acid sequence of the protein deduced from the nucleotide sequence coding for mouse BTC-GF is as that comprising the amino acids No. 1 to No. 146 of FIG. 9 (SEQ ID NO:17).