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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:
Nov. 21, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 17, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
David C Chan, Brookline, MA (US);
Deborah Fass, Cambridge, MA (US);
Min Lu, New York, NY (US);
James M Berger, Cambridge, MA (US);
Peter S Kim, Lexington, MA (US);
Assignee:
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; C12P / ; A61K / ; C07K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-5 ; 435 691 ; 530324 ;
Abstract
Described are the crystal structure of the .alpha.-helical domain of the gp41 component of HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein which represents the core of fusion-active gp41, methods of identifying and designing drugs which inhibit gp41 function and drugs which do so.