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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2002
Applicant:
Anthony R. Means, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Inventor:
Anthony R. Means, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Assignee:
Duke University, Durham, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/48 (2006.01); C12Q 1/00 (2006.01); C12Q 1/37 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to Ca/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV (CaMKIV) and, in particular, to methods of screening compounds for their ability to act as CaMKIV agonists or antagonists. The invention further relates to compounds identified using such methods and to therapeutic methodologies based on same.