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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2008
Applicants:
Joseph P. Noel, San Diego, CA (US);
Chloe Zubieta, Grenoble, FR;
Richard Dixon, Ardmore, OK (US);
Inventors:
Assignees:
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA (US);
The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 31/00 (2006.01); G01N 33/48 (2006.01); G06G 7/58 (2006.01); C12Q 1/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention provides crystalline O-methyltransferases and isolated non-native O-methyltransferases as well as sets of their structural coordinates. Also provided are methods of predicting the activity or substrate specificity of putative O-methyl-transferases, methods of identifying potential substrates of O-methyltransferases, and methods of identifying potential inhibitors of methyltransferases.