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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2005
A. Wayne Meikle, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
David J. Stillman, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Jared M. Orrock, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Alan H. Terry, Bountiful, UT (US);
Tanya M. Sandrock, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
A. Wayne Meikle, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
David J. Stillman, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Jared M. Orrock, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Alan H. Terry, Bountiful, UT (US);
Tanya M. Sandrock, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
University of Utah Research Foundation, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides for methods and systems for detecting steroids. Examples of such steroids include estrogen, progesterone, androgen, testosterone, and derivatives and analogs thereof. Systems useful for carrying out the method include tripartite constructs including a DNA-binding domain, a ligand binding domain, and an activation domain. The present invention provides numerous improvements over previous diagnostic systems for detection of steroids, such advantages include that the method allows for detection of steroid analogs and derivatives, whose structures may not yet be known, the method is generally applicable to a wide variety of organisms, and numerous ligand binding domains may be used in conjunction with the present system.