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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2000
Applicant:
Edward T. H. Yeh, Houston, TX (US);
Inventor:
Edward T. H. Yeh, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Board of Regents, the University of Texas System, Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 15/63 (2006.01); C12N 15/74 (2006.01); C12N 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed are compositions comprising a novel cell-death protecting protein, sentrin-1, and the gene which encodes it. Also disclosed are methods of making and using sentrin polypeptides and nucleic acid segments in various diagnostic and pharmaceutical applications. In a preferred embodiment, overexpression of sentrin-1 confers protection against both anti-Fas/APO-1 and TNF-induced apoptosis.