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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2004
Shyr-jiann LI, San Francisco, CA (US);
James Clark, San Mateo, CA (US);
Hong Zhang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shyr-Jiann Li, San Francisco, CA (US);
James Clark, San Mateo, CA (US);
Hong Zhang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Applera Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides isolated monkey Cathepsin S proteins and isolated nucleic acid molecules such as cDNA molecules that encode these monkey Cathepsin S proteins. The present invention specifically provides, for example, isolated monkey Cathepsin S proteins and encoding nucleic acid molecules, methods of producing the monkey Cathepsin S proteins, methods of identifying and screening modulators of the monkey Cathepsin S proteins, and methods of using these modulators to treat a human disease or disorders associated with an orthologous human Cathepsin S protein.