Abstract: The invention provides novel polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded by such polynucleotides and mutants or variants thereof that correspond to novel human C-type lectin receptor-like proteins. Other aspects of the invention include vectors containing processes for producing novel human C-type lectin receptor-like polypeptides, methods for detecting novel human C-type lectin receptor-like polynucleotides, and nucleic acid arrays comprising the novel human C-type lectin receptor-like polynucleotides.

Abstract: The present invention provides a plurality of novel nucleic acids isolated from cDNA libraries for adult brain, adult heart, adult lung, adult lymph node, adult liver, adult ovary, adult spleen, testis, bone marrow, endothelial cell, fetal kidney, fetal liver/spleen, fetal liver, fetal brain, infant brain, lung tumor, leukocyte, and mammary gland. These expressed sequence tags were determined to be novel by their failure to match any known sequences in several publicly available databases, including the dbEST database.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel nucleic acids encoding human stem cell maintenance factors, the novel polypeptides encoded by these nucleic acids and uses of these and related products.