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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:
Jul. 11, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 07, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
John H Kenten, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Jan Casadei, Bethesda, MD (US);
Michael J Powell, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Assignee:
IGEN International, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07K / ; C12N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
530350 ; 530399 ; 435183 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to luminescent chimeric proteins which include a photoprotein and a second protein which may be light- or heavy-chain immunoglobulin, an antigenic peptide, avidin, streptavidin, or protein A. The invention also relates to chimeric protein genes, plasmids containing said gene, and hosts transformed with said plasmid. The invention also relates to a range of highly sensitive immunoassays which use the chimeric proteins.