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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2002
Applicant:
Robert Charles Baxter, Glebe, AU;
Inventor:
Robert Charles Baxter, Glebe, AU;
Assignee:
Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K038/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The acid-labile sub-unit (ALS) of insulin like growth factor binding protein complex in biologically pure form is described. ALS has a molecular weight between 80-115 kd as determined by SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, run under reducing conditions; and a partial N-terminal amino acid sequence as follows: Also described are methods of producing ALS, compositions containing the in-vivo IGF protein complex, methods of detecting ALS in body fluids, recombinant nucleic acid sequences encoding ALS, and expression vectors and host cells containing such nucleic acid sequences.