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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2000
David Anderson, San Bruno, CA (US);
Beau Robert Peelle, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jakob Maria Bogenberger, San Mateo, CA (US);
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to the use of scaffold proteins, particularly green fluorescent protein (GFP), in fusion constructs with random and defined peptides and peptide libraries, to increase the cellular expression levels, decrease the cellular catabolism, increase the conformational stability relative to linear peptides, and to increase the steady state concentrations of the random peptides and random peptide library members expressed in cells for the purpose of detecting the presence of the peptides and screening random peptide libraries. N-terminal, C-terminal, dual N- and C-terminal and one or more internal fusions are all contemplated. Novel fusions utilizing self-binding peptides to create a conformationally stabilized fusion domain are also contemplated.