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7374912 Nucleic acids encoding chimeric interleukin-6 soluble receptor/ligand protein, analogs thereof and uses thereof  
Chimeric proteins constructed from the fusion of the naturally occurring form of the soluble IL-6 receptor and IL-6 which are useful for treatment of cancer and liver disorders, enhancement of bone...
7354739 TML polynucleotides  
The present invention is directed to polynucleotides, peptides, variants, and uses thereof for a novel peptide fragment designated TML peptides. Binding of the peptide fragment has been shown in...
7351815 Canine pre-proGHRH and mature GHRH genes  
The present invention relates to a canine pre-proGHRH polypeptide, a canine mature GHRH peptide, an isolated polynucleotide which encodes the canine pre-proGHRH or the canine mature GHRH. The...
7338787 Nucleic acids encoding OBG3 globular head and uses thereof  
The present invention relates to the field of obesity research. Obesity is a public health problem that is serious and widespread. A compound, globular OBG3, has been identified that reduces weight...
7317095 Mutant glycoproteins  
The inventors have designed novel FSH mutants with increased glycosylation and longer half-lives for use in inducing folliculogenesis in human patients. The use of a FSH mutant preparation of the...
7304150 Methods and compositions for the prevention and treatment of anemia  
Methods for increasing and maintaining hematocrit in a mammal comprising administering a hyperglycosylated analog of erythropoietin are disclosed. An analog may be administered less frequently than...
7282557 Nucleic acids encoding a G-protein coupled receptor involved in sensory transduction  
The invention provides isolated nucleic acid and amino acid sequences of sensory cell specific G-protein coupled receptors, antibodies to such receptors, methods of detecting such nucleic acids and...
7259293 Expression of eukaryotic peptides in plant plastids  
Constructs and methods are provided for expressing peptides derived from eukaryotic organisms in plant plastids. Constructs have a promoter functional in a plant plastid, a DNA sequence encoding a...
7253254 Polypeptide variants with increased heparin-binding capacity  
The invention pertains to polypeptide variants with increased heparin-binding ability. Increased heparin-binding ability is achieved by addition, insertion, and/or substitution of an amino acid...
7250406 Compositions and methods for the acceleration of protein secretion dynamics  
The present invention provides compositions and methods for modulating the secretion of transcriptionally regulated proteins from recombinant cells. More particularly, the present invention...
7244834 Nucleic acids encoding PTH functional domain conjugate peptides  
Novel parathyroid hormone (PTH) peptides and analogs thereof of the PTH(1–34) fragment are disclosed that combine the N-terminal signaling domain (residues 1–9) and the C-terminal binding...
7244591 Yeast transformant producing recombinant human parathyroid hormone and method for producing the hormone  
Novel Saccharomyces Cerevisiae mutant strains are provided for producing human parathyroid hormone. The novel strains acre genetically disrupted in at least one of the genes encoding the yapsin...
7241617 Sendai viral vectors comprising foreign genes inserted between the R1 and R2 Loci  
Use of a negative-sense RNA virus vector has enabled transfer of nucleic acid into nerve cells. The method of this invention can be used for introducing a gene efficiently into nerve cells...
7232667 Keratinocyte growth factor-2 polynucleotides  
This invention relates to newly identified polynucleotides, polypeptides encoded by such polynucleotides, the use of such polynucleotides and polypeptides, as well as the production of such...
7230157 Chemical inducible promoter used to obtain transgenic plants with a silent marker and organisms and cells and methods of using same for screening for mutations  
Disclosed is a chemically inducible promoter for transforming plants or plant cells with genes which are regulatable by adding the plants or cells to a medium containing an inducer or by removing...
7226758 Nucleic acids encoding glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF)  
A novel neurotrophic factor referred to as glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) has been identified and isolated from serum free growth conditioned medium of B49 glioblastoma cells....
7223563 Fibroblast growth factor (FGF23) nucleic acids  
The invention relates to novel nucleic acids encoding a fibroblast growth factor-23(FGF23) and proteins encoded thereby, mutations in which are associated with autosomal dominant rickets (ADHR)....
7217689 Glycosylation analogs of erythropoietin  
Erythropoietin analogs having at least one additional site for glycosylation, or a rearrangement of at least one site for glycosylation are disclosed. The invention also relates to DNA sequences...
7186529 Preparation of erythropoietin by endogenous gene activation  
The invention relates to human cells which are capable, on the basis of an activation of the endogenous human EPO gene, of producing EPO in a sufficient amount and purity to make possible a...
7179621 Pigment epithelium-derived factor: sequence of the PEDF gene  
Nucleic acids encoding the neurotrophic protein known as pigment epithelium derived factor (PEDF), a truncated version of PEDF referred to as rPEDF, and equivalent proteins, vectors comprising such...
7176292 Ghrelin variant protein  
The present invention concerns a protein produced from an alternative splice form of the human Ghrelin gene, an obesity and/or diabetes related gene.
7166461 Polynucleotides encoding a super-active porcine growth hormone releasing hormone analog  
Inadequate growth due to deficiencies in growth hormone (GR), growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH), or genetic diseases can be ameliorated utilizing recombinant protein therapy with a novel GHRH...
7153951 Bioactive peptides and peptide derivatives of parathyroid hormone (PTH) and parathyroid hormone-related peptide (PTHrP)  
Novel parathyroid hormone peptide (PTH) and parathyroid hormone related peptide (PTHrP) or derivatives thereof which are biologically active are disclosed, as are pharmaceutical compositions...
7144997 Vertebrate embryonic patterning-inducing proteins, compositions and uses related therto  
It is shown here that hedgehog proteins possess novel activities beyond phenotype specification. Using cultures derived from the embryonic day 14.5 (E14.5) rat ventral mesencephalon, we show that...
7141389 Chromosome DNA coding for human hepatocyte growth factor  
A chromosome DNA which codes for human hepatocyte growth factor, a recombinant expression vector capable of expressing the DNA, a transformant transformed with the expression vector and a method of...
7122654 Vascular endothelial growth factor D (VEGF-D) antibodies and vectors, and methods of use  
VEGF-D, a new member of the PDGF family of growth factors, which among other things stimulates endothelial cell proliferation and angiogenesis and increases vascular permeability, as well as...
7122351 Dimerized PDGF-D and materials and methods for producing it  
Proteins consisting of two PDGF-D polypeptide chains, polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, and materials and methods for making the proteins are disclosed. Each of the polypeptide chains...
7105348 Methods of modifying eukaryotic cells  
A method for engineering and utilizing large DNA vectors to target, via homologous recombination, and modify, in any desirable fashion, endogenous genes and chromosomal loci in eukaryotic cells....
7091401 Expression of epidermal growth factor in plant seeds  
The present invention provides a method of preparing epidermal growth factors in plants and transgenic plant seeds containing epidermal growth factors. The method provides an economical way to...
7090834 Vascular endothelial cell growth factor variants and uses thereof  
The present invention provides VEGF variants having one or more amino acid mutations in the KDR and/or FLT-1 receptor binding domains in the native VEGF sequence and selective binding affinity for...
7071172 Secretion signal vectors  
The present invention provides delivery vectors for transferring a nucleic acid sequence to a cell in vitro, ex vivo or in vivo. The delivery vector comprises a segment encoding a secretory signal...
7070946 Bone metabolism related protein and gene thereof  
The present invention is directed to a novel method of detecting a function or activity of a polypeptide which is related to bone metabolism, in particular, differentiation (maturation) of...
7070788 Follicle stimulating hormone superagonists  
The invention is directed toward a human glycoprotein hormone having at least one, two, three, four, or five basic amino acids in the α-subunit at positions selected from the group consisting of...
7045497 Use of peptide  
The present invention relates to use of peptide to which G-protein coupled receptor protein recognizes as a ligand. Since the ligand polypeptide of the present invention has a stimulating action on...
7015316 Polynucleotides encoding human persephin and related growth factors  
A novel growth factor, persephin, which belongs to the GDNF/neurturin family of growth factors, is disclosed. The human, mouse and rat amino acid sequences have been identified. Human, mouse and...
7015308 Hedgehog protein  
Disclosed are a novel hedgehog protein, i.e., a Desert hedgehog protein of human origin including mature and precursor forms, a DNA encoding the protein, a monoclonal antibody recognizing the...
7005275 Inducible alphaviral gene expression system  
The present invention provides novel expression vectors which permit tight regulation of gene expression in eucaryotic cells. More specifically, the invention provides DNA vectors comprising...
6967092 Multi-functional chimeric hematopoietic receptor agonists  
Disclosed are novel multi-functional chimeric hematopoietic receptor agonist proteins, DNAs which encode the multi-functional chimeric hematopoietic receptor agonist proteins, methods of making the...
6949365 Polynucleotides encoding lamprey GnRH-III  
Novel isolated cDNA encoding the precursor of the novel gonadotropin-releasing hormones in four species of the fish lamprey is disclosed. The use of such cDNA's in studying the phylogenetic...
6946265 Nucleic acids and proteins with growth hormone activity  
The invention relates to novel growth hormone activity (GHA) proteins and nucleic acids. The invention further relates to the use of the GHA proteins in the treatment of growth hormone related...
6939690 Polynucleotides encoding motilin homologs  
The present invention is directed to polynucleotides, polypeptides and peptide fragments thereof, and uses thereof for a novel cDNA sequence which has homology to motilin. Tissue distribution of...
6936440 Selecting ligand agonists and antagonists  
We have discovered that growth hormones from ternary complexes with their receptors in which site 1 on the hormone first binds to one molecule of receptor and then hormone site 2 then binds to...
6930167 DNA encoding bovine immunoglobulin a inducing protein and uses therefor  
The invention provides an isolated and purified nucleic acid molecule encoding mammalian immunoglobulin A inducing protein (IGIP), and methods of using the IGIP nucleic acid molecule and IGIP.
6893844 DNA encoding a new human hepatoma derived growth factor and producing method thereof  
The invention provides a cDNA sequence of a new type II human hepatoma derived growth factor (HDGF2). The protein encoded by such sequence is a homology of type I HDGF. The present invention also...
6890738 Prolactin antagonists and uses thereof  
Recombinant nucleotide sequences encoding mutated prolactin are described. Expression of the sequences result in mimics of a phosphorylated prolactin corresponding to a selected species. A...
6875748 Compositions and methods for in vivo delivery of polynucleotide-based therapeutics  
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions and methods to improve expression of exogenous polypeptides into vertebrate cells in vivo, utilizing delivery of polynucleotides...
6875589 Mini-proinsulin, its preparation and use  
A mini-proinsulin, in which the amino acid Arg bridges the A and the B chain instead of the C chain, shows insulin activity and is suitable for the preparation of pharmaceuticals for the treatment...
6869927 Keratinocyte growth factor-2 formulations  
The invention is directed to liquid and lyophilized forms of Keratinocyte Growth Factor-2 (KGF-2) and derivatives thereof. This invention further relates to the formulation of KGF-2 for therapeutic...
6861237 Production of heterologous polypeptides in yeast  
A process for producing high amount of proteins or polypeptides in yeast is disclosed. The process makes use of the CIT1 yeast promoter or a functional part or variant thereof. Examples of...
6838553 Peptide repeat immunogens  
The invention relates to a polypeptide including (1) a receptor binding domain of a Pseudomonas exotoxin A, and (2) at least two copies of a peptide sequence.