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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:
Jul. 16, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Nobuaki Hori, Kawasaki, JP;
Claude Geoffrey Davis, Burlingame, CA (US);
Krisztina M. Zsebo, Woodside, CA (US);
Ava Jakobovits, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 2/104 ; C12N 1/500 ; C12N 5/06 ; C12N 5/12 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 2/104 ; C12N 1/500 ; C12N 5/06 ; C12N 5/12 ;
Abstract
The present invention features a method of producing a multimeric protein from a hybrid cell formed from the fusion of two or more cells, each of which cell is engineered to express one component of the multimeric protein, as well as a method for screening for successful fusion of the cells to produce a desired hybrid cell. The methods of the invention are widely applicable to the production of proteins having two or more components.