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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:
Mar. 01, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2000
Applicants:
John J. L. Simard, Northridge, CA (US);
David C. Diamond, Duarte, CA (US);
Inventors:
John J. L. Simard, Northridge, CA (US);
David C. Diamond, Duarte, CA (US);
Assignee:
MannKind Corporation, Valencia, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q001/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of epitope discovery comprising the step of selecting an epitope from a population of peptide fragments of an antigen associated with a target cell, wherein the fragments have a known or predicted affinity for a major histocompatibility complex class I receptor peptide binding cleft, wherein the epitope selected corresponds to a proteasome cleavage product of the target cell.