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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:
Sep. 25, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Stephen William Watson Michnick, Westmount, CA;
Ingrid Remy, Montreal, CA;
Assignee:
Odyssey Pharmaceuticals Inc., San Ramon, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 ; C12N 5/10 ; C12N 1/21 ; C12N 1/511 ; C12N 1/563 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 ; C12N 5/10 ; C12N 1/21 ; C12N 1/511 ; C12N 1/563 ;
Abstract
The invention provides a general protein-fragment complementation assays to detect biomolecular interactions in vivo and in vitro. The protein-complemetation assay/universal reporter system can be used to detect and screen an agonist and an antagonist of a membrane receptor system. The assay can be used to study protein-protein, protein-DNA, protein-RNA, protein-carbohydrate, and protein-small molecule interactions. The assay can be used to screen cDNA libraries for binding of a target protein with unknown proteins or libraries of small organic molecules for biological activity.