Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series – Organic compounds – Carbohydrates or derivatives
Patent
1993-10-21
1996-11-26
Cunningham, Thomas M.
Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series
Organic compounds
Carbohydrates or derivatives
4352523, 4353201, 530380, 530395, 4241851, C07H 2104, C07K 14705
Patent
active
055787142
ABSTRACT:
gpD protein, the major subunit of the Duffy blood group antigenic system, has been isolated. gpD protein contains the receptor, by which P. vivax enters red cells and causes malaria. gpD has significant sequence homology with human and rabbit interleukin-8 receptors and, therefore, gpD protein likely is a new class of chemoattractant cytokines receptor. gpD protein cDNA has a quasi-total homology with a human hippocampus cDNA clone HHCMF86 and, therefore, gpD protein or a homologous protein may be present as a neuropeptide receptor in brain. gpD protein is present in all red cell progenitors and it may be a receptor for cell proliferation and/or differentiation. gpD protein cDNA identifies in human kidney a mRNA of the same size as the bone marrow. Since the kidney is not and has no potential to become an erythropoietic organ, this putative chemoattractant receptor may have essential renal functions. gpD protein has therapeutic value in the prevention of malaria and in the regulation of erythrocyte, neural and renal functions and can be combined with physiologically acceptable diluents to yield a therapeutic agent suitable for these purposes. Peptides corresponding to a portion of gpD protein that contains the receptor also have been synthesized. Such peptides have therapeutic usefulness identical to that of gpD protein. gpD protein and such peptides also have utility in the production of therapeutics, e.g., antibodies, complementary peptides, etc., which are also useful to treat malaria and regulate essential erythrocyte, neural and renal functions.
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Chaudhuri Asok
Pogo Angel O.
Cunningham Thomas M.
New York Blood Center Inc.
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