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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2006
Applicants:
Juergen Schmitz, Bergheim, DE;
David William Buck, Sussex, GB;
Andrzej Dzionek, Cologne, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Miltenyi Biotec GmbH, Bergisch Gladbach, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 5/00 (2006.01); C12N 5/02 (2006.01); C07K 1/00 (2006.01); C12Q 1/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The application describes, inter alia, a method for isolating or enriching for dendritic cells from a mixture of human cells involving contacting cells in the mixture with an antibody that binds BDCA-4, or antigen-binding fragment thereof, under conditions in which the antibody or antigen-binding fragment binds BDCA-4+ dendritic cells, and separating dendritic cells bound by the antibody or antigen-binding fragment from other cells in the mixture.