Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Susan E. Lingenfelte
  • Testis specific glycoprotein zpep10
    Patent number: 6242588
    Abstract: The present invention relates to zpep10 polypeptides and polynucleotides encoding the same. Zpep10 polypeptide is a testis-specific membrane glycoprotein. Zpep10 polypeptides would be useful for modulating spermatogenesis and egg-sperm interaction and would be useful to study or modulate these functions in in vitro or in vivo systems. The present invention also includes antibodies to the zpep10 polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: ZymoGenetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul O. Sheppard, Christopher S. Piddington, Jeff L. Ellsworth