Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series – Organic compounds – Carbohydrates or derivatives
Reexamination Certificate
1998-02-09
2001-07-03
Saunders, David (Department: 1644)
Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series
Organic compounds
Carbohydrates or derivatives
C435S069100, C435S091100, C435S325000, C435S252300, C435S320100, C530S350000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06255471
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF INVENTION
This invention relates to newly identified polynucleotides, polypeptides encoded by them and to the use of such polynucleotides and polypeptides, and to their production. More particularly, the polynucleotides and polypeptides of the present invention relate to GTP binding protein family, hereinafter referred to as chronic renal failure gene-1b (CRFG-1b). The invention also relates to inhibiting or activating the action of such polynucleotides and polypeptides.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The sequence of CRFG-1b is similar to uncharacterized putative GTP binding proteins of yeast (YPL093w), Halobacterium cutirubrum and GTP1/OBG family of GTP binding proteins from Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum. GTP binding proteins play important roles in intracellular transport, protein targeting and vesicle fusion.
This indicates that the GTP binding proteins fainly has an established, proven history as therapeutic targets. Clearly there is a need for identification and characterization of fiuter members of GTP binding protein family which can play a role in preventing, ameliorating or correcting dysfunctions or diseases, including, but not limited to, chronic renal disease, renal ischemia, diabetic nephropathy, acute renal failure, Neurodegenerative disease, and Alzheimer's disease.
SUMMIARY OF THE INVENTION
In one aspect, the invention relates to CRFG-1b polypeptides and recombinant materials and methods for their production. Another aspect of the invention relates to methods for using such CRFG-1b polypeptides and polynucleotides. Such uses include the treatment of chronic renal disease, renal ischemia, diabetic nephropathy, acute renal failure, Neurodegenerative disease, and Alzheimer's disease, among others. In still another aspect, the invention relates to methods to identify agonists and antagonists using the materials provided by the invention, and treating conditions associated with CRFG-1b imbalance with the identified compounds. Yet another aspect of the invention relates to diagnostic assays for detecting diseases associated with inappropriate CRFG-1b activity or levels.
DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Definitions
The following definitions are provided to facilitate understanding of certain terms used frequently herein.
“CRFG-1b” refers, among others, generally to a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:2 or an allelic variant thereof.
“CRFG-1b activity or CRFG-1b polypeptide activity” or “biological activity of the CRFG-1b or CRFG-1b polypeptide” refers to the metabolic or physiologic function of said CRFG-1b including similar activities or improved activities or these activities with decreased undesirable side-effects. Also included are antigenic and immunogenic activities of said CRFG-1b.
“CRFG-1b gene” refers to a polynucleotide having the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1 or allelic variants thereof and/or their complements.
“Antibodies” as used herein includes polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies, chimeric, single chain, and humanized antibodies, as well as Fab fragments, including the products of an Fab or other immunoglobulin expression library.
“Isolated” means altered “by the hand of man” from the natural state. If an “isolated” composition or substance occurs in nature, it has been changed or removed from its original environment, or both. For example, a polynucleotide or a polypeptide naturally present in a living animal is not “isolated,” but the same polynucleotide or polypeptide separated from the coexisting materials of its natural state is “isolated”, as the term is employed herein.
“Polynucleotide” generally refers to any polyribonucleotide or polydeoxribonucleotide, which may be unmodified RNA or DNA or modified RNA or DNA. “Polynucleotides” include, without limitation single- and double-stranded DNA, DNA that is a mixture of single- and double-stranded regions, single- and double-stranded RNA, and RNA that is mixture of single- and double-stranded regions, hybrid molecules comprising DNA and RNA that may be single- stranded or, more typically, double-stranded or a mixture of single- and double-stranded regions. In addition, “polynucleotide” refers to triple-stranded regions comprising RNA or DNA or both RNA and DNA. The term polynucleotide also includes DNAs or RNAs containing one or more modified bases and DNAs or RNAs with backbones modified for stability or for other reasons. “Modified” bases include, for example, tritylated bases and unusual bases such as inosine. A variety of modifications has been made to DNA and RNA; thus, “polynucleotide” embraces chemically, enzymatically or metabolically modified forms of polynucleotides as typically found in nature, as well as the chemical forms of DNA and RNA characteristic of viruses and cells. “Polynucleotide” also embraces relatively short polynucleotides, often referred to as oligonucleotides.
“Polypeptide” refers to any peptide or protein comprising two or more amino acids joined to each other by peptide bonds or modified peptide bonds, i.e., peptide isosteres. “Polypeptide” refers to both short chains, commnonly referred to as peptides, oligopeptides or oligomers, and to longer chains, generally referred to as proteins. Polypeptides may contain amino acids other than the 20 gene-encoded amino acids. “Polypeptides” include amino acid sequences modified either by natural processes, such as posttranslational processing, or by chemical modification techniques which are well known in the art. Such modifications are well described in basic texts and in more detailed monographs, as well as in a voluminous research literature. Modifications can occur anywhere in a polypeptide, including the peptide backbone, the amino acid side-chains and the amino or carboxyl terminni. It will be appreciated that the same type of modification may be present in the same or varying degrees at several sites in a given polypeptide. Also, a given polypeptide may contain many types of modifications. Polypeptides may be branched as a result of ubiquitination, and they may be cyclic, with or without branching. Cyclic, branched and branched cyclic polypeptides may result from posttranslation natural processes or may be made by synthetic methods. Modifications include acetylation, acylation, ADP-ribosylation, amidation, covalent attachment of fiavin, covalent attachment of a heme moiety, covalent attachment of a nucleotide or nucleotide derivative, covalent attachment of a lipid or lipid derivative, covalent attachment of phosphotidylinositol, cross-linking, cyclization, disulfide bond formation, demethylation, formation of covalent cross-links, formation of cystine, formation of pyroglutamnate, formylation, gamma-carboxylation, glycosylation, GPI anchor formation, hydroxylation, iodination, methylation, myristoylation, oxidation, proteolytic processing, phosphorylation, prenylation, racemization, selenoylation, sulfation, transfer-RNA mediated addition of amino acids to proteins such as arginylation, and ubiquitination. See, for instance, PROTEINS—STRUCTURE AND MOLECULAR PROPERTIES, 2nd Ed., T. E. Creighton, W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, 1993 and Wold, F., Posttranslational Protein Modifications: Perspectives and Prospects, pgs. 1-12 in POSTTRANSLATIONAL COVALENT MODIFICATION OF PROTEINS, B. C. Johnson, Ed., Academic Press, New York, 1983; Seifter et aL., “Analysis for protein modifications and nonprotein cofactors”,
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(1 990) 182:626-646 and Rattan et al., “Protein Synthesis: Posttranslational Modifications and Aging”,
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“Variant” as the term is used herein, is a polynucleotide or polypeptide that differs from a reference polynucleotide or polypeptide respectively, but retains essential properties. A typical variant of a polynucleotide differs in nucleotide sequence from another, reference polynucleotide. Changes in the nucleotide sequence of the variant may or may not alter the amino acid sequence of a polypeptide encoded by the reference polynucleotide. Nucleotide changes may result in amino acid substitutions, add
Laping Nicholas J
Olson Barbara
Zhu Yuan
Hecht Elizabeth J.
King William T.
Ratner & Prestia
Saunders David
SmithKline Beecham Corporation
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