320 results about "Full length cdna" patented technology

Compositions for the diagnosis and therapy of prostate and colon cancer, derived from or based on a novel prostate-specific, androgen-related, cell membrane associated and secreted serine protease termed 20P1F12 / TMPRSS2 are described. A full length cDNA comprising the entire coding sequence of the 20P1F12 / TMPRSS2 gene (also designated 20P1F12-GTC1 herein) is provided (FIG. 1). Among the compositions provided are antibodies that bind to 20P1F12 / TMPRSS2 proteins and polypeptide fragments thereof, including antibodies labeled with a detectable marker or toxin or therapeutic composition. The invention also provides prognostic and diagnostic methods of examining a biological sample for evidence of disregulated cellular growth by comparing the status of 20P1F12 / TMPRSS2 in the biological sample to the status of 20P1F12 / TMPRSS2 in a corresponding normal sample, wherein alterations in the status of 20P1F12 / TMPRSS2 in the biological sample are associated with disregulated cellular growth. The invention further provides various therapeutic compositions and strategies for treating prostate cancer, including particularly, 20P1F12 / TMPRSS2 polypeptide and anti-20P1F12 / TMPRSS2 antibody therapy methods and compositions, cancer vaccines, and small molecule therapy.

The present invention relates to the cloning, identification and characterization of the unique and entire genomic sequences encoding new porcine DC-SIGN and LSECtin proteins, including the novel nucleotide sequences of the full-length cDNA and genes of both pDC-SIGN gene and pLSECtin. Also provided are the nucleic acid molecules encoding newly discovered porcine ICAM-3 isoforms from porcine monocyte-derived dendritic cells and the use thereof. Specifically, the invention is drawn to an isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding one or more of porcine DC-SIGN, porcine ICAM-3, porcine LSECtin, a complement of the nucleotide sequence or a functional, defined portion of the nucleotide sequence or a protein fusion product linked to a protein that may be of porcine or human origin. Methods for isolating and cloning the new porcine genes and for using the new nucleotide sequences in improved methods for propagating viruses, particularly enveloped viruses, are additionally described herein. The invention further includes new transfected cells or cell lines that can stably express the porcine proteins, new antibodies and the like.

A method of preparing normalized and / or subtracted cDNA; a method in which the cDNA that is normalized and / or subtracted is in the form of uncloned cDNA (cDNA tester); a method of preparing normalized and / or subtracted cDNA comprising the steps of: (a) preparing cDNA tester; (b) preparing normalization and / or subtraction RNA driver; (c) conducting normalization and / or subtraction in two steps in any order, or conducting normalization / subtraction as a single step and mixing the normalization / subtraction RNA driver with said cDNA tester; (d) adding an enzyme capable of cleaving single strand sites on RNA drivers nonspecifically bound to cDNA tester; (e) removing said single strand RNA driver cleaved in step d) from the tester and removing tester / driver hybrids; and (f) recovering the normalized and / or subtracted cDNA; and a method of efficiently preparing normalized and / or subtracted long-chain, full-coding, and full-length cDNA libraries are provided.