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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2011
Jeffrey S. Rubin, Potomac, MD (US);
Aykut Üren, Rockville, MD (US);
Susan Cumberledge, Belchertown, MA (US);
Frieda Reichsman, Shutesbury, MA (US);
Jeffrey S. Rubin, Potomac, MD (US);
Aykut Üren, Rockville, MD (US);
Susan Cumberledge, Belchertown, MA (US);
Frieda Reichsman, Shutesbury, MA (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Wasington, DC (US);
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (US);
Abstract
The invention stems from the discovery that sFRP and fragments thereof can bind to members of the Wnt family of proteins and cause an increase in Wnt biological activity. Furthermore, fragments of sFRP that do not contain the CRD domain are shown to bind to Wnt proteins and modulate Wnt biological activity. Accordingly, the invention provides these sFRP fragments and variants of these fragments, as well as vectors and host cells containing nucleic acid sequences encoding the sFRP fragments and variants.