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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 17, 1995
Anke Klippel, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lewis T Williams, Tiburon, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides a method of producing a constitutively active phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI 3-kinase) comprising the catalytic p110 subunit covalently attached at the N-terminus to the iSH2 region of the regulatory subunit, p85. The invention discloses one form of the constitutively active kinase, p110*, which functions independently of growth factor stimulation. Expression vectors encoding a constitutively active PI 3-kinase and cells containing such expression vectors are provided. The invention also provides methods of using the constitutively active phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase to generate phosphoinositides, to identify cellular target proteins and associating molecules of PI 3-kinase, to screen for inhibitors of PI 3-kinase activity and to treat certain diseases, in particular, proliferative diseases. Kits comprising the constitutively active kinase are also provided.