Abstract: A family of stimuli-induced in particular stress or cold-shock induced genes and proteins are disclosed which have conserved amino acid domains. Nucleic acid sequences of the genes and the promoters are also described. Various utilities of the promoters and of the proteins are disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 1, 1994
Date of Patent:
February 3, 1998
Assignee:
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Inventors:
Masayori Inouye, Pamela Jones, Jean-Pierre Etchegaray, Weining Jiang, N. Stephen Pollitt, Joel Goldstein