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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2001
Yan Feng, Brookline, MA (US);
Tarun M. Kapoor, New York, NY (US);
Thomas Mayer, Brookline, MA (US);
Zoltan Maliga, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Timothy J. Mitchison, Brookline, MA (US);
Justin Yarrow, Boston, MA (US);
Yan Feng, Brookline, MA (US);
Tarun M. Kapoor, New York, NY (US);
Thomas Mayer, Brookline, MA (US);
Zoltan Maliga, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Timothy J. Mitchison, Brookline, MA (US);
Justin Yarrow, Boston, MA (US);
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides for compounds, compositions, methods and systems for inhibiting cell growth. More specifically, the present invention provides for methods, compounds and compositions which are capable of inhibiting mitosis in metabolically active cells. Compounds, compositions and methods of the present invention inhibit the activity of a protein involved in the assembly and maintenance of the mitotic spindle. One class of proteins which acts on the mitotic spindle is the family of mitotic kinesins, a subset of the kinesin superfamily.