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7626009 PUFA polyketide synthase systems and uses thereof  
Disclosed are the complete polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) polyketide synthase (PKS) systems from the bacterial microorganisms Shewanella japonica and Shewanella olleyana , and biologically...
7622631 Methods for enhancing plant resistance to pathogens  
The present invention relates to methods of producing transgenic plants having resistance to blast fungus and/or leaf-blight bacteria by transforming the plants with a DNA encoding a protein that...
7622300 Trans-lentiviral vector particles and transduction of eukaryotic cells therewith  
Trans-lentiviral gene transfer vectors, vector systems, vector particles, and methods for transduction of primary nondividing cells using the same, are described. Further described are...
7622282 Biosynthesis of isopentenyl pyrophosphate  
Methods for synthesizing isopentenyl pyrophosphate are provided. A first method comprises introducing into a host microorganism a plurality of heterologous nucleic acid sequences, each coding for a...
7622297 Pharmaceutical use of α antigen or α antigen gene  
The α antigen-encoding gene and the α antigen protein suppress the production of interleukin-4 etc., improve the Th2 type cytokine-dominant state, and furthermore inhibit various conditions of...
7622570 Plants expressing putative palmitoyl protein thioesterase  
Isolated nucleic acids and proteins associated with lipid and sugar metabolism regulation are provided. In particular, putative palmitoyl protein thioesterase and encoding nucleic acids are...
7622291 Agarase and gene thereof  
Production of efficiently producing agaro-oligosaccharide; a polypeptide having an agarase activity which is usable in, for example, efficiently extracting a substance such as a nucleic acid from...
7622292 Regulation of human transmembrane serine protease  
Reagents that regulate human transmembrane serine protease activity and reagents that bind to human transmembrane serine protease gene products can be used to regulate extracellular matrix...
7622287 Myceliophthora thermophila laccase variants  
The present invention relates to a method of designing laccase mutants with increased oxidation potential and/or changed pH optimum and/or altered mediator pathway and/or altered O 2 /OH −...
7622288 Sesquiterpene synthases from patchouli  
The invention relates to sesquiterpene synthases from Patchouli plants ( Pogostemon cablin ), and methods of their production and use. In one embodiment, the invention provides nucleic acids...
7622637 Seed-preferred regulatory elements  
The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for a tissue preferred promoter...
7622278 Compositions and methods for diagnosing or treating psoriasis  
In one aspect, the present invention provides isolated nucleic acid molecules that encode a CAN-1 polypeptide, or an STG polypeptide. In another aspect, the present invention also provides isolated...
7622284 Transformed eukaryotic cells that directly convert xylose to xylulose  
The present invention relates to host cells transformed with a nucleic acid sequence encoding a eukaryotic xylose isomerase obtainable from an anaerobic fungus. When expressed, the sequence...
7622283 Methods for synthesizing mevalonate  
Methods for synthesizing isopentenyl pyrophosphate are provided. A first method comprises introducing into a host microorganism a plurality of heterologous nucleic acid sequences, each coding for a...
7622658 Compositions and methods for altering tocotrienol content  
The invention provides isolated nucleic acids and their encoded polypeptides that alter tocotrienol content in seeds. The invention further provides expression cassettes, host cells and transformed...
7622565 Nucleic acids encoding B7-H4, a T cell immunoregulatory molecule  
The invention provides novel B7-H3 and B7-H4 polypeptides useful for co-stimulating T cells, isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding them, vectors containing the nucleic acid molecules, and cells...
7622109 Plant gene and uses thereof  
A novel gene isolated from Deschampsia antarctica coding for a lipase like protein is disclosed. A system for production of recombinant enzyme is also disclosed as well as use for the enzyme in...
7622127 Clostridial toxin derivatives and methods for treating pain  
Agents for treating pain, methods for producing the agents and methods for treating pain by administration to a patient of a therapeutically effective amount of the agent. The agent can include a ...
7622303 Methods for identifying patients at risk for life threatening arrhythmias  
In general, the invention is directed to systems and techniques for assessing a risk of ventricular tachyarrhythmia in a patient by measuring one or more biochemical markers that reflect the health...
7622290 Fungal lipolytic enzymes, nucleic acids encoding, and uses thereof  
A fungal wild-type lipolytic enzyme having a higher ratio of activity on polar lipids compared with triglycerides, wherein the enzyme preferably has a phospholipid:triglyceride activity ratio of at...
7618623 Hybrid adeno-retroviral vector for the transfection of cells  
An adenovirus, including adenoviral capsid proteins, and a replication-defective adenoviral vector that includes a 5′ retroviral LTR nucleic acid sequence, a 3′ retroviral LTR nucleic acid...
7618814 Microrna-related nucleic acids and uses thereof  
The present invention relates to a first group of novel genes, here identified as genomic address messenger or GAM genes, and a second group of novel operon-like genes, here identified as genomic...
7618943 Fusion polypeptides, and use thereof in antivascular tumor therapy  
The present invention relates to fusion polypeptides, comprising at least two peptides. The invention further relates to the use of these fusion proteins in antivascular therapy of neoplastic...
7618802 Compositions of coronaviruses with a recombination-resistant genome  
The present invention provides a cDNA of a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus, recombinant SARS coronavirus vectors, and SARS coronavirus replicon particles. Also provided are...
7618799 Bacterial leader sequences for increased expression  
Compositions and methods for improving expression and/or secretion of protein or polypeptide of interest in a host cell are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a bacterial...
7618795 Starch process  
The present invention relates to a process for enzymatic hydrolysis of granular starch into a soluble starch hydrolysate at a temperature below the initial gelatinization temperature of said...
7619134 Starches produced by the expression of heterologous granule bound starch synthase genes  
The present invention is directed to an isolated starch, a transgenic plant or plant part producing the starch, flour and a thickened foodstuff prepared from a grain capable of producing such...
7619077 Nucleic acids encoding a galacturonosyl tranferase enzyme (GALAT1) from arabidopsis  
The invention provides an isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding the polypeptide GALAT1 having galacturonosyltransferase (GalAT) activity. The Arabidopsis GALAT1 sequence disclosed represents...
7619065 Cystine-knot fold protein  
This invention relates to a novel protein (INSP002), herein identified as a secreted protein that is a member of the Dan family of the cystine-knot fold cytokine superfamily and to the use of this...
7618816 Metal-binding therapeutic peptides  
The present invention is related methods of delivering MBD peptide-linked agents into live cells. The methods described herein comprise contacting MBD peptide-linked agents to live cells under a...
7619135 Seed-specific promoter from the rice glutelin GluB-4 gene and uses thereof  
An objective of the present invention is to provide promoters having seed-specific promoter activity, and methods of expressing foreign proteins in seeds. In particular, a seed specific promoter...
7619078 Nucleic acid molecules encoding B7-1  
Novel structural forms of T cell costimulatory molecules are described. These structural forms comprise a novel structural domain or have a structural domain deleted or added. The structural forms...
7619138 Precise breeding  
The present invention relates to a new plant breeding process. The process improves the agronomic performance of crop plants by using genetic material that is also used in classical breeding....
7618815 Viral vectors useful in soybean and methods of use  
The invention provides Bean pod mottle virus (BPMV) vectors useful for expression of heterologous proteins in plants such as soybean. The BPMV vectors are also useful for virus-induced gene...
7618775 Expanding the eukaryotic genetic code  
This invention provides compositions and methods for producing translational components that expand the number of genetically encoded amino acids in eukaryotic cells. The components include...
7615626 Methods, agents, and compound screening assays for inducing differentiation of undifferentiatied mammalian cells into osteoblasts  
The present invention relates to methods, agents and compound screening assays for inducing differentiation of undifferentiated mammalian cells into osteoblasts. The invention thus provides a...
7615360 Use of Saccharomyces cerevisiae erg4 mutants for expressing mammalian glucose transporter  
The invention relates to yeast strains in which a human GLUT4 transport or a human GLUT1 transporter can be functionally expressed and to particular GLUT4 transport proteins which can be...
7615679 Method of producing polyunsaturated fatty acids, novel biosynthesis genes, and novel plant expression constructs  
The present invention relates to a method for the production of unsaturated fatty acids with at least two double bonds. The invention further relates to the use of the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ...
7615681 Methods for modifying plant responses to stress and correspondingly derived plants  
Plant stresses such as pest drought, and excessive temperatures can lead to significant losses of crops each year. There is a continuing need to develop novel plant varieties that are less...
7615678 Methods for using artificial polynucleotides and compositions thereof to reduce transgene silencing  
The materials and methods disclosed provide for polynucleotide molecules sufficiently divergent from polynucleotides naturally contained in plants, or polynucleotides previously introduced into...
7615537 Methods for treating blood coagulation disorders  
The present invention relates to a method of treating an individual having a blood coagulation defect (e.g., hemophilia A, hemophilia B), comprising administering to the individual an effective...
7615362 Isolated xylanase gene with mutations and site-specific mutagenesis method thereof  
A mutated xylanase gene with a broad pH range of reaction includes a forty-first amino acid or a twenty-first amino acid generated from transforming asparagine to aspartic acid so as to form the...
7615680 Temporal seed promoters for expressing genes in plants  
The present invention relates to the field of plant genetic engineering. More specifically, the present invention relates to seed specific gene expression during a defined period of embryogenesis....
7615365 α(1,6)-linked glucose oligosaccharide hydrolyzing enzyme polynucleotides and polypeptides and methods of use thereof  
This invention relates to a method for utilizing less purified starch in fermentation processes. One example is a recombinant E. coli containing a exogenous extracellular isoamylase activity that...
7615215 Anti-human VEGF receptor Flt-1 monoclonal antibody  
The present invention provides an antibody or peptide which immunologically reacts with human VEGF receptor Flt-1 and cells in which human VEGF receptor Flt-1 is expressed on the cell surface and...
7615686 Expression and use of novel pesticidal toxins  
A novel pesticidal toxin isolated from Bacillus thuringiensis that is highly active against a wide range of lepidopteran insect pests is disclosed. The DNA encoding the pesticidal toxin can be...
7615364 Polypeptide having activity of unsaturating W3-fatty acid, polynucleotide coding for the polypeptide and use thereof  
The present invention provides a polypeptide having a wide substrate specificity and having a ω3 fatty acid desaturation activity, which makes efficiently unsaturated bond at ω3 position, and a...
7611865 Polynucleotides encoding truncated glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor  
Disclosed are novel proteins, referred to as truncated glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (truncated GDNF) proteins, that promote dopamine uptake by dopaminergic cells and promote the...
7612046 Method for treating kidney disorders  
The present invention relates to a cellular therapy of renal failure, i.e. preventing, delaying, and treating acute/chronic renal failure via the use of an effective dose of a substance capable of...
7611868 Recombinant modified adenovirus fiber protein  
Recombinant adenoviruses comprising modified fiber proteins which expand the tropism of the adenovirus in comparison to wild-type virus are disclosed. The modified fiber proteins described herein...