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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 06, 1994
Stephen Fox Heinemann, La Jolla, CA (US);
James Warner Patrick, Houston, TX (US);
James Richard Boulter, San Diego, CA (US);
Evan Samuel Deneris, La Jolla, CA (US);
Keiji Wada, Rockville, MD (US);
Marc Charles Ballivet, Geneva, CH;
Daniel Jay Goldman, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
John Gerard Connolly, Del Mar, CA (US);
Robert Michael Duvoisin, Del Mar, CA (US);
Eden Deer Heinemann, San Luis Obispo, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a family of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors comprised of neuronal agonist and non-agonist binding subunits, and DNA sequences encoding such subunits. These novel neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits include the agonist binding subunits alpha2, alpha3, alpha4, and alpha5, plus non-agonist binding subunits beta2, beta3 and beta4. Representative cDNA clones that contain the DNA sequences of the invention have been deposited with the American Type Culture Collection for patent purposes.