METHODS OF MODIFYING EUKARYOTIC CELLS
    34.
    发明公开
    METHODS OF MODIFYING EUKARYOTIC CELLS 有权
    方法进行修饰真核细胞

    公开(公告)号:EP1399575A2

    公开(公告)日:2004-03-24

    申请号:EP01992495.0

    申请日:2001-10-31

    IPC分类号: C12N15/90

    摘要: A method for engineering and utilizing large DNA vectors to target, via homologous recombination, and modify, in any desirable fashion, endogenous genes and chromosomal loci in eukaryotic cells. These large DNA targeting vectors for eukaryotic cells, termed LTVECs, are derived from fragments of cloned genomic DNA larger than those typically used by other approaches intended to perform homologous targeting in eukaryotic cells. Also provided is a rapid and convenient method of detecting eukaryotic cells in which the LTVEC has correctly targeted and modified the desired endogenous genes(s) or chromosomal locus (loci) as well as the use of these cells to generate organisms bearing the genetic modification.

    A FAMILY OF MAP2 PROTEIN KINASES
    35.
    发明授权
    A FAMILY OF MAP2 PROTEIN KINASES 失效
    MAP2蛋白激酶家族

    公开(公告)号:EP0651809B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-12-05

    申请号:EP91912876.9

    申请日:1991-06-03

    摘要: The present invention relates to a newly identified family of protein serine/threonine kinases which phosphorylate microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP2). It is based, in part, on the cloning and characterization of novel MAP2 kinases designated extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1, 2, and 3 (ERK1, ERK2, ERK3) which are expressed in the central nervous system, and on the identification of another ERK family member, ERK4, with antisera. The present invention provides fore recombinant nucleic acid molecules and proteins representing members of the MAP2 kinase family, and also for microorganisms, transgenic animals, and cell lines comprising recombinant MAP2 kinase molecules. In additional embodiments of the invention, the present invention provides for methods for assaying cellular factor activity, including, but not limited to, nerve growth factor activity, in which the activation of MAP2 kinase serves as an indicator of cellular factor activity. These methods may be extremely useful in screening compounds for the presence of a desired cellular factor activity. In specific embodiments, compounds which may be useful in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease , peripheral neuropathies, and diabetes may be identified using the methods of the invention.