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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 28, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Stephen G. Sligar, Urbana, IL (US);
Kevin Sanders, Champaign, IL (US);
Assignee:
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 2/106 ; C07K 1/700 ; C07K 1/4805 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 2/106 ; C07K 1/700 ; C07K 1/4805 ;
Abstract
Described are preferred oxygen-binding heme proteins which include at least one hemoglobin molecule incorporating at least one circularly permuted globin, especially an alpha globin. More preferred heme proteins of the invention include high molecular weight hemoglobin multimers. Also described are polynucleotides encoding proteins of the invention, and vectors and host cells including the same.