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7619067 Evolved interferon-alpha polypeptides  
The present invention provides evolved interferon-alpha polypeptides, and conjugates thereof, and nucleic acids encoding the polypeptides. The invention also includes compositions comprising these...
7619066 IL-1ra variants  
The present invention provides for an IL-1ra having reduced aggregation, methods of reducing aggregation of IL-1ra, and kits comprising an IL-1ra having reduced aggregation.
RE40987 Cyclosporin with improved activity profile  
The invention relates to a novel cyclosporin, the pharmaceutical use thereof and a pharmaceutical composition containing it.
7612171 DB, the receptor for leptin, nucleic acids encoding the receptor, and uses thereof  
The present invention relates to identification of a receptor for a satiety factor, which is involved in body weight homeostasis. Mutations in this receptor are associated with obese phenotypes. In...
7611889 Method for noncovalently immobilizing a biomolecule on a solid substrate and microarray produced according to the method  
Provided is a method for noncovalently immobilizing a biomolecule on a solid substrate, including: providing a solid substrate having a first functional group attached thereto, the first functional...
7611888 Rotaxane compound, rotaxane-bonded solid substrate, and biochip using the same  
The present disclosure provides a rotaxane compound that can be used to separate molecules within a linkage layer formed on a solid substrate of a biochip by a predetermined distance. The compound...
7605232 Hydrogels for protein concentration  
A method of concentrating proteins from whole blood comprising exposing whole blood to covalently crosslinked hydrogel to remove water from the blood into the hydrogel to thereby concentrate the...
7598224 Dual chain synthetic heparin-binding growth factor analogs  
The invention provides synthetic heparin-binding growth factor analogs having two peptide chains each branched from a branch moiety, such as trifunctional amino acid residues, the branch moieties...
7597882 Protein crosslinkers, crosslinking methods and applications thereof  
Some aspects of this disclosure relate to a method for crosslinking a biological fluid comprising combining a biological fluid with a crosslinker to covalently crosslink proteins endogenous to the...
7592432 Polypeptide cleavage process  
The invention provides a palladium-promoted hydrolytic polypeptide cleavage process which selectively cleaves the polypeptide at a Cys-His cleavage site comprising solubilizing the polypeptide in a...
7592311 Platelet production promoting agent  
The invention relates to a polypeptide wherein at least one of the amino, carboxyl, mercapto or guanidino group in a polypeptide molecule having human granulocyte colony stimulating factor activity...
7588907 Ubiquitin mediated fluorescence complementation assay  
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for identifying covalent joining or modification of proteins. In particular, the present invention relates to covalent fluorescence...
7585946 Active lymphotoxin-β receptor immunoglobulin chimeric protein compositions  
Methods for high level expression of active lymphotoxin-β receptor immunoglobulin chimeric proteins and their purification.
7585943 Compositions and methods for fusion protein separation  
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for fusion protein separation utilizing a peptide linker comprising a novel thrombin cleavage site.
7585509 Erb-2 receptor targeting peptide  
The ErbB-2 receptor, a member of the tyrosine kinase type 1 family of receptors, has been implicated in many human malignancies. Bacteriophage display technology was employed to identify peptides...
7579444 Polymer-factor IX moiety conjugates  
Conjugates of a Factor IX moiety and one or more water-soluble polymers are provided. Typically, the water-soluble polymer is poly(ethylene glycol) or a derivative thereof. Also provided (among...
7576059 Peptide derivatives  
A pharmacologically active peptide hormone derivative in which the parent peptide hormone has been modified by introducing either a lipophilic substituent, W, in the N-terminal amino acid or a...
7575763 Membrane scaffold proteins and tethered membrane proteins  
Membrane proteins are difficult to express in recombinant form, purify, and characterize, at least in part due to their hydrophobic or partially hydrophobic properties. Membrane scaffold proteins...
7569358 Doxorubicin immunoassay  
Novel conjugates of doxorubicin and novel doxorubicin immunogens derived from the 13 and 14 positions of doxorubicin and antibodies generated by these doxorubicin linked immunogens all of which are...
7569215 Mutant interleukin-2 (IL-2) polypeptides  
The present invention relates to IL-2 mutants with increased affinity for the IL-2 alpha-receptor subunit (IL-2Rα). The invention thus includes IL-2 mutants with improved biological potency. The...
7566694 Anti-pathogen treatments  
Chimeric molecules that contain at least one pathogen-detection domain and at least one effector domain, and their methods of use in preventing or treating a pathogen infection in a cell or...
7563866 Modular antigen transporter molecules (MAT molecules) for modulating immune reactions, associated constructs, methods and uses  
Modular antigen transporter molecules (MAT molecules), which are used as vaccines and for the treatment of allergies, include three modules: a translocation module which brings about transport of...
7563864 Prolyl endopeptidase mediated destruction of T cell epitopes in whole gluten  
Celiac Sprue and/or dermatitis herpetiformis are treated by interfering with HLA binding of immunogenic gluten peptides. The antigenicity of gluten oligopeptides and the ill effects caused by an...
7563450 UL16 binding protein 4  
ULBP4, a novel member of the ULBP family has been isolated and characterized. ULBP4 is a useful activator of immune effector cells, particularly of NK cells.
7563438 FGF homologs and antibodies thereto  
The present invention relates to antibodies and fragments thereof, polynucleotide and polypeptide molecules for zFGF5 a novel member of the FGF family. The polypeptides, and polynucleotides...
7560287 Long wavelength engineered fluorescent proteins  
Engineered fluorescent proteins, nucleic acids encoding them and methods of use are provided.
7560101 Method of treatment of an infection in an animal with GM-CSF cysteine muteins in the proximal region to helix A  
The growth hormone supergene family comprises greater than 20 structurally related cytokines and growth factors. A general method is provided for creating site-specific, biologically active...
7553494 WT1 fusion proteins  
Compositions and methods for the therapy of malignant diseases, such as leukemia and cancer, are disclosed. The compositions comprise one or more of a WT1 polynucleotide, a WT1 polypeptide, an...
7550566 G-CSF conjugates  
Polypeptide conjugates with G-CSF activity comprising a polypeptide having at least one introduced lysine residue and at least one removed lysine residue compared to the sequence of human G-CSF,...
7550561 p16INK4 polypeptides  
The present invention relates to the discovery in eukaryotic cells, particularly human cells, a novel polypeptide of 16 kDa (hereinafter “p16 INK4 ” or “p16”) can function as an inhibitor...
7550426 Acetylated therapeutic procytotoxins  
A class of procytotoxic agents is characterized by a capability to kill with target cell-specificity. Such an aspect can be a pore-forming protein which has at least one lysine residue, modified by...
7541436 Interferon-alpha polypeptides and conjugates  
The present invention provides interferon-alpha polypeptides and conjugates, and nucleic acids encoding the polypeptides. The invention also includes compositions comprising these polypeptides,...
7541330 Conjugates with reduced adverse systemic effects  
A conjugate of an active agent and a targeting moiety having affinity for a target cell, in which the active agent has been modified by attachment of a cell membrane-impermeabilizing group so that,...
7538182 Polypeptide and protein derivatives and process for their preparation  
Protein and polypeptide derivatives and their salts are claimed characterized in that a protein or polypeptide is conjugated via an intermediate grouping containing at least one radical of the...
7534866 Methods and compositions for generating bioactive assemblies of increased complexity and uses  
The present invention concerns methods and compositions for making and using bioactive assemblies of defined compositions, which may have multiple functionalities and/or binding specificities. In...
7534865 Bt toxin receptors from lepidopteran insects  
The invention relates to Bt toxin resistance management. The invention particularly relates to the isolation and characterization of nucleic acid and polypeptides for a novel Bt toxin receptor. The...
7534864 Bt toxin receptors from lepidopteran insects  
The invention relates to Bt toxin resistance management. The invention particularly relates to the isolation and characterization of nucleic acid and polypeptides for a novel Bt toxin receptor. The...
7534862 PEGylated soluble gp130-dimers useful as a medicament  
A polypeptide-dimer comprising two soluble gp130 molecules is described, wherein at least one of said soluble gp130 molecules is covalently linked to polyethylene glycol. Furthermore, a...
7534861 Compositions and methods for immunoaffinity purification  
A hybrid polypeptide composed of a p53 epitope peptide and a desired functional protein are produced by recombinant DNA techniques. A DNA expression vector is constructed that includes segments of...
7534592 Crystallization of carboxyltransferase domain of Acetyl-CoEnzyme A Carboxylase 2 with a ligand  
Provided are crystals relating to the carboxyltransferase domain of human Acetyl-Coenzyme A Carboxylase 2 and its various uses.
7531644 IL-6 receptor•IL-6 direct fusion protein  
The present invention intends to provide an IL-6R•IL-6 fusion protein and the like in which IL-6R and IL-6 are directly linked without a linker. The IL-6 receptor•IL-6 fusion protein of the...
7528234 Process for the preparation of doxorubicin conjugates with lactosaminated human albumin  
A procedure is described for conjugating the hydrazone derivatives of doxorubicin having a maleimide terminal group to lactosaminated human albumin (L-HSA). The procedure is based on the use of...
7528104 Peptides that bind to the erythropoietin receptor  
The present invention relates to peptide compounds that are agonists of the erythropoietin receptor (EPO-R). The invention also relates to therapeutic methods using such peptide compounds to treat...
7522162 Light harvesting optical, optoelectronic, and photovoltaic devices  
This invention provides modified phycobilisomes and phycobilisome complexes that are supramolecular complexes with diverse-spectral properties, and which may optionally be immobilized on a...
7521417 Method and apparatus for preparing an acellular red blood cell substitute  
A process is disclosed for the preparation of an essentially tetramer-free, substantially stroma-free, polymerized, pyridoxylated hemoglobin. Also disclosed is an essentially tetramer-free,...
7521202 Method and apparatus for the production of soluble MHC antigens and uses thereof  
The field of the invention relates in general to at least one method and apparatus for the production of soluble MHC antigens and more particularly, but not by way of limitation, to at least one...
7517526 Enhancement of antibody-cytokine fusion protein mediated immune responses by combined treatment with immunocytokine uptake enhancing agents  
Disclosed are methods and compositions for treating tumors. Disclosed methods and compositions enhance the uptake of immunocytokines into tumors, and are based on a combination of an immunocytokine...
7514540 Functionalized carrier material containing covalently bound biomolecule via a linker  
The invention concerns a method for immobilizing biomolecules on a polymeric surface of a carrier material and a carrier material functionalized with a biomolecule according to the general formulas...
7511124 Compositions comprising phosphatidylethanolamine-binding peptides linked to anti-viral agents  
Disclosed are surprising discoveries concerning the role of anionic phospholipids and aminophospholipids in tumor vasculature and in viral entry and spread, and compositions and methods for...
7511015 Modified defensins and their use  
This disclosure provides modified antimicrobial agents, for example modified defensin polypeptides. In one embodiment, compositions including a modified arginine residue, such as an ADP-ribosylated...