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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2000
Alex Turner, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Brian Zambrowicz, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Michael Nehls, Stockdorf, DE;
Glenn A. Friedrich, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Arthur T. Sands, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Lexicon Genetics Incorporated, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides two novel families of novel human transporter proteins (NTPs). The invention additionally provides for agonists, antagonists, antibodies, antisense molecules that are specific for the NTPs, and further provides genetically engineered expression vectors for the NTPs and host comprising the same. The invention further provides for processes for identifying/producing molecules that effect NTP activity which comprise the use of the disclosed NTPs or genes encoding the same.