摘要:
Disclosed in this invention are methods, systems, databases, user-interfaces, software, media, and services useful for evaluating interactions between chemical compounds and proteins and for utilizing the information resulting from such evaluation for the purpose of discovering chemical compounds for medical and other fields. An approach termed “reverse proteomics” is disclosed. This invention generates an enormously large pool of new target proteins for drug discovery, novel methods for designing of new drugs, and a previously unthinkable pool of virtually synthesized small molecules for therapeutic uses. This invention is also applicable, for example, to discovery of substitutes for environmentally hazardous chemicals, more effective agrochemicals, and healthier food additives.
摘要:
A cDNA fragment participating in the maintenance of smooth muscle differentiation was isolated using a culture system of chicken gizzard smooth muscle cells, the differential display method and the subtracted hybridization method. Using the obtained cDNA sequence as a query, cDNA sequences of Helix Research Institute (Japanese Patent Application No. 2000-118776) were retrieved, and thus, a novel gene “C-NT2RP3001495” was obtained. The protein encoded by this gene has two WW domains that participate in protein interactions in the N-terminal domain. Evidence suggests that this protein binds to other proteins, and thus regulates the intracellular signal transduction, gene expression, and so on, thereby participating in the maintenance of the differentiation of smooth muscle cells. This protein and compounds regulating the expression thereof are markedly useful in developing drugs for various diseases associated with abnormality in the maintenance of smooth muscle cell differentiation.
摘要:
It is an object of the present invention to provide diagnostic reagents, pharmaceuticals and the like for particular diseases, and providing means that are useful in developing such reagents, pharmaceuticals and the like. The present invention provides a novel polypeptide and a specific partial peptide thereof, as well as a novel polynucleotide and a specific partial nucleotide thereof, that can be used as cancer-specific biomarkers; an expression vector for such a polynucleotide and a specific partial peptide thereof; a transformant incorporating such an expression vector; an antisense molecule, RNAi-inducing nucleic acid (e.g., siRNA), aptamer, or antibody for a cancer-specific biomarker, and a composition comprising the same; a mammalian cell or non-human mammal wherein the expression or a function of a cancer-specific biomarker is regulated; a measuring means (e.g., primer set, nucleic acid probe, antibody, aptamer) for a cancer-specific biomarker, and a reagent comprising them and the like.
摘要:
Novel full-length cDNAs are provided. cDNA derived from human have been isolated. The full-length nucleotide sequences of the cDNA and amino acid sequences encoded by the nucleotide sequences have been determined. Because the cDNA of the present invention are full-length and contain the translation start site, they provide information useful for analyzing the functions of the polypeptide.
摘要:
The present invention provides: proteins suppressing or promoting the aggregation or deposition of amyloid-β protein; polynucleotides encoding the proteins; a method for screening a compound suppressing or promoting the aggregation or deposition of amyloid-β protein; and therapeutic agents for treating or preventing Alzheimer's diseases comprising a compound that regulates the activity of a protein suppressing or promoting the aggregation or deposition of amyloid-β protein.
摘要:
D-amino acid oxidase (DAO) originated from Fusarium solani M-0718, a DNA compound encoding the oxidase, expression vectors containing said DNA compound are provided. Esherichia coli transformants capable of producing recombinant DAO in high level are also provided.
摘要:
The present invention relates to new hybrid plasmids useful as vectors in recombinant DNA technology, in which Acremonium chrysogenum or Saccharomyces cerevisiae is used as a host, and to microorganisms bearing the hybrid plasmids.partially digesting a chromosomal DNA of Acremonium chrysogenum ATCC 11550 with restriction enzyme Sau 3A, said autonomous replication sequence having a molecular size of about 1.39 Kbp, and having the restriction maps set forth in FIGS. 4-6.
摘要:
Novel full-length cDNAs are provided. 2,495 cDNA derived from human have been isolated. The full-length nucleotide sequences of the cDNA and amino acid sequences encoded by the nucleotide sequences have been determined. Because the cDNA of the present invention are full-length and contain the translation start site, they provide information useful for analyzing the functions of the polypeptide.
摘要:
The present invention relates to novel nuclear receptor ERRγ3. Although ERRγ3 itself lacks a DNA binding domain, it comprises the function of enhancing the transcriptional activation function of arbitrary nuclear receptors, such as ERR, ER, or TR. Moreover, the present inventors found that, like ERRγ3, the known proteins ERRγ1 and ERRγ2 also comprise the function of enhancing the transcriptional activation function of other nuclear receptors. Thus, the present invention provides methods for evaluating the regulatory function of these ERRγ subtypes in enhancing the transcriptional activation function of other nuclear receptors, and screening methods based on these evaluation methods.
摘要:
Selection of clones having the kinase and/or phosphatase-like structure from clones which had been isolated and the structures thereof had been determined in the Helix Research Institute (helix clones; Japanese Patent Application No. 2000-183767) was conducted. Two novel genes were provided by carrying out homology search for all the helix clones by using the amino acid sequences of known kinases and phosphatases as queries. The genes are expected to be involved in intracellular signal transduction. The physiological functions of the inventive genes can be tested by using reporter gene assay systems capable of detecting signal transduction. The proteins of the present invention are useful as target molecules in drug discovery and in the development of new pharmaceuticals.