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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2001
Toshisuke Kawasaki, Hirakata, JP;
Toshisuke Kawasaki, Hirakata, JP;
Takara Bio, Inc., Shiga-Ken, JP;
Abstract
The present invention is to offer a pharmaceutical agent which is capable of suppressing the growth of cancer in cancer cells and the surrounding tissues thereof or in tissue of non-diseased part. An anticancer agent having a mannan-binding protein or gene thereof as an effective component. Examples of a mannan-binding protein are a protein which has an amino acid sequence described in SEQ ID NO:1 of the Sequence Listing and a protein which has an amino acid sequence where one or more amino acid residue(s) is/are subjected to at least one of substitution, deletion, addition and insertion in the amino acid sequence and also has an activity as mannan-binding protein. Examples of a gene are a gene which codes an amino acid sequence described in SEQ ID NO:1 or NO:2 of the Sequence Listing or modified amino acid sequence, or a gene which contains said gene.