Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Lin Sun-Hoffmann
  • Isolated human metalloprotease proteins, nucleic acid molecules encoding human protease proteins, and uses thereof
    Patent number: 6825022
    Abstract: The present invention provides amino acid sequences of peptides that are encoded by genes within the human genome, the protease peptides of the present invention. The present invention specifically provides isolated peptide and nucleic acid molecules, methods of identifying orthologs and paralogs of the protease peptides, and methods of identifying modulators of the protease peptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: Applera Corporation
    Inventors: Gennady V. Merkulov, Jane Ye, Valentina Di Francesco, Ellen M. Beasley