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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. 20, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gerald M. Rubin, Berkeley, CA (US);
Duojia Pan, Berkeley, CA (US);
Jenny Rooke, New Haven, CT (US);
Reza Yavari, New Haven, CT (US);
Tian Xu, New Haven, CT (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/21 ; C12N 9/50 ; C12N 1/552 ; C12N 5/10 ; C07H 2/104 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/21 ; C12N 9/50 ; C12N 1/552 ; C12N 5/10 ; C07H 2/104 ;
Abstract
Members of a novel family of polypeptides, the KUZ family, are metalloproteases involved in neuronal partitioning and neuronal development. The invention provides KUZ poylpeptides, antibodies that bind the KUZ polypeptides, KUZ encoding nucleic acids, methods for identifying cells expressing the KUZ polypeptides, methods of identifying ligands that bind to the subject proteins and methods of blocking KUZ polypeptide/ligand interactions