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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2000
John Ngai, Berkeley, CA (US);
David J. Speca, Berkeley, CA (US);
David M. Lin, Berkeley, CA (US);
Ehud Y. Isacoff, Berkeley, CA (US);
Andrew H. Dittman, Berkeley, CA (US);
Jinhong Fan, Berkeley, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides methods and compositions relating to odorant receptors, including a general expression cloning methodology which is useful for identifying novel G protein-coupled receptors and a novel family of odorant receptors and related nucleic acids, ligands, agonists and antagonists. These compositions provide a wide variety of applications such as screening for related receptors, and by modulating the function of the disclosed receptors by modulating their expression or contacting them with agonists, antagonist or ligands modulating reproductive/sexual and non-sexual social behaviors mediated via the olfactory system, reproductive physiologies and olfactory system regulated feeding behaviors, migratory behaviors and events such as conception, implantation, estrous and menstruation.