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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert H. Edwards, San Francisco, CA (US);
Elizabeth E. Bellocchio, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Robert T. Fremeau, Jr., San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard J. Reimer, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/00 ; C12Q 1/68 ; G01N 3/353 ; C12N 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/00 ; C12Q 1/68 ; G01N 3/353 ; C12N 5/00 ;
Abstract
This invention pertains to the identification of a novel class of glutamate transporters. In particular, this invention pertains to the discovery that proteins originally considered to perform an entirely different function (BNPI, DNPI, etc.), in fact, transport glutamate into synaptic vesicles. Designated VGLUT glutamate transporters, the transporters provide good targets with which to screen for modulators of glutamate uptake into synaptic vesicles.