Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or...
Reexamination Certificate
2006-04-17
2009-12-15
Huff, Sheela J (Department: 1643)
Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or...
C435S006120
Reexamination Certificate
active
07632634
ABSTRACT:
A method and assay are described for determining prostate cancer and the general stage of progression of such cancer by quantifying levels of expression of different galectin isoforms and/or different levels of promoter methylation of such galectin isoforms.
REFERENCES:
patent: 7252935 (2007-08-01), Sidransky
Chiariotti et al Biochimie vol. 81 p. 381 (1999).
Ellerhorst et al Urol. Res. (1999) vol. 27 p. 362.
Warnecke et al Current Opinion in Oncology vol. 12 p. 68 (2000).
Herman et al, New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 349 p. 2042 (2003).
Iurisci et al Clin. Cancer Res. vol. 6 p. 1389 (2000).
Ahmed, Hafiz, et al., “Galectins: conservation of functionally and structurally relevant amino acid residues defines two types of . . . ”, “Glycobiology”, 1994, pp. 545-549, vol. 4, No. 5.
Ahmed, Hafiz, et al., “The primary structure and carbohydrate specificity of a beta-galactosyl-binding lectin from toad (bufo arenarum . . . ”, “The Journal of Biological Chemistry”, 1996, pp. 33083-33094, vol. 271, No. 51.
Ahmed, Hafiz, et al., “Novel carbohydrate specificity of the 16-kDa galectin fromCaenorhabditis elegans: binding to blood group precursor . . . ”, “Glycobiology”, 2002, pp. 451-461, vol. 12, No. 8.
Ahmed, Hafiz, et al., “Biochemical and molecular characterization of galectins from zebrafish (Danio rerio): notochord-specific expression . . . ”, “Glycobiology”, 2004, pp. 219-232, vol. 14, No. 3.
Akahani, Shiro, et al., “Galectin-3: a novel antiapoptotic molecule with a functional BH1 (NWGR) domain of Bcl-2 family”, “Cancer Research”, Dec. 1, 1997, pp. 5272-5276, vol. 57.
Avni, Orly, et al., “Complement receptor 3 of macrophages is associated with galectin-1-like protein”, “J. Immunol.”, 1998, pp. 6151-6158, vol. 160.
Barondes, Samuel H., et al., “Galectins. Structure and function of a large family of animal lectins”, “The Journal of Biological Chemistry”, Aug. 19, 1994, pp. 20807-20810, vol. 269, No. 33.
Benvenuto, Giovanna, et al., “Cell-specific transcriptional regulation and reactivation of galectin-1 gene expression are controlled by DNA . . . ”, “Molecular and Cellular Biology”, Jun. 1996, pp. 2736-2743, vol. 16, No. 6.
Caplan, Aaron, et al., “Prostate-specific antigen and the early diagnosis of prostate cancer”, “Am. J. Clin. Pathol.”, 2002, pp. S104-S108, vol. 117 (Suppl 1).
Cho, Moonjae, et al., “Galectin-1, a beta-galactoside-binding lectin in Chinese hamster ovary cells”, “The Journal of Biological Chemistry”, Mar. 10, 1995, pp. 5207-5212, vol. 270, No. 10.
Colnot, Celine, et al., “The role of galectins in mouse development”, “Trends in Glycoscience and Glycotechnology”, Jan. 1997, pp. 31-40, vol. 9, No. 45.
Cooper, Douglas N. W., et al., “Evidence for export of a muscle lectin from cytosol to extracellular matrix and for a novel secretory mechanism”, “The Journal of Cell Biology”, May 1, 1990, pp. 1681-1691, vol. 110.
Cooper, Douglas N. W., et al., “Endogenous muscle lectin inhibits myoblast adhesion to laminin”, “The Journal of Cell Biology”, Dec. 1, 1991, pp. 1437-1448, vol. 115, No. 5.
Costa, M., et al., “Abstract Only: Galectin-3 gene expresssion is silenced by methylation of its promoter in murine melanoma cells”, “Accessed Online at: http://web.archive.org/web/20050223095849/http://direxlim.fm.usp.br/ r24b.php”, 2003.
Fackler, Mary Jo, et al., “Quantitative multiplex methylation-specific PCR assay for the detection of promoter hypermethylation in multiple genes..”, “Cancer Research”, Jul. 1, 2004, pp. 4442-4452, vol. 64.
Frommer, Marianne, et al., “A genomic sequencing protocol that yields a positive display of 5-methylcytosine residues in individual DNA strands”, “Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA”, Mar. 1992, pp. 1827-1831, vol. 89.
Gauthier, Laurent, et al., “Galectin-1 is a stromal cell ligand of the pre-B cell receptor (BCR) implicated in synapse formation between pre-B . . . ”, “Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA”, Oct. 1, 2002, pp. 13014-13019, vol. 99, No. 20.
Gibson, Ursula E.M., et al., “A novel method for real time quantitative RT-PCR”, “Genome Research”, 1996, pp. 995-1001, vol. 6.
Glinsky, Vladislav V., et al., “Effects of Thomsen-Friedenreich antigen-specific peptide P-30 on beta-galactoside-mediated homotypic aggregation and . . . ”, “Cancer Research”, May 15, 2000, pp. 2584-2588, vol. 60.
Glinsky, Vladislav V., et al., “The role of Thomsen-Friedenreich antigen in adhesion of human breast and prostate cancer cells to the endothelium”, “Cancer Research”, Jun. 15, 2001, pp. 4851-4857, vol. 61.
Goletz, Steffen, et al., “Novel alphaGaINAc containing glycans on cytokeratins are recognized in vitro by galectins with type II carbohydrate . . . ”, “Journal of Cell Science”, 1997, pp. 1585-1596, vol. 110.
Gong, Hua Chang, et al., “The NH2 terminus of galectin-3 governs cellular compartmentalization and functions in cancer cells”, “Cancer Research”, Dec. 15, 1999, pp. 6239-6245, vol. 59.
Gu, Maojian, et al., “Selective modulation of the interaction of alpha7beta1 integrin with fibronectin and laminin by L-14 lectin during . . . ”, “Journal of Cell Science”, 1994, pp. 175-181, vol. 107.
Hadari, Yaron R., et al., “Galectin-8 binding to integrins inhibits cell adhesion and induces apoptosis”, “Journal of Cell Science”, 2000, pp. 2385-2397, vol. 113.
Hanahan, Douglas, et al., “The hallmarks of cancer”, “Cell”, Jan. 7, 2000, pp. 57-70, vol. 100.
Heid, Christian A., et al., “Real time quantitative PCR”, “Genome Research”, 1996, pp. 986-994, vol. 6.
Herman, James G., et al., “Methylation-specific PCR: a novel PCR assay for methylation status of CpG islands”, “Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.”, Sep. 1, 1996, pp. 9821-9826, vol. 93, Published in: Washington, D.C., US.
Hernandez, Joseph D., et al., “Ah, sweet mystery of death! Galectins and control of cell fate”, “Glycobiology”, 2002, pp. 127R-136R, vol. 12, No. 10.
Inohara, Hidenori, et al., “Functional evidence that cell surface galectin-3 mediates homotypic cell adhesion”, “Cancer Research”, Aug. 1, 1995, pp. 3267-3271, vol. 55.
Iurisci, Ida, et al., “Concentrations of galectin-3 in the sera of normal controls and cancer patients”, “Clinical Cancer Research”, Apr. 2000, pp. 1389-1393, vol. 6.
Leffler, Hakon, et al., “Specificity of binding of three soluble rat lung lectins to substituted and unsubstituted mammalian beta-galactosides”, “The Journal of Biological Chemistry”, Aug. 5, 1986, pp. 10119-10126, vol. 261, No. 22.
Levy, Yifat, et al., “Galectin-8 functions as a matricellular modulator of cell adhesion”, “The Journal of Biological Chemistry”, Aug. 17, 2001, pp. 31285-31295, vol. 276, No. 33.
Liao, Der-Ing, et al., “Structure of S-lectin, a developmentally regulated vertebrate beta-galactoside-binding protein”, “Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA”, Feb. 1994, pp. 1428-1432, vol. 91.
Nangia-Makker, Pratima, et al., “Galectin-3 induces endothelial cell morphogenesis and angiogenesis”, “American Journal of Pathology”, Mar. 2000, pp. 899-909, vol. 156, No. 3.
Park, Jung W., et al., “Association of galectin-1 and galectin-3 with gemin4 in complexes containing the SMN protein”, “Nucleic Acids Research”, 2001, pp. 3595-3602, vol. 27, No. 17.
Rosenberg, Ian, et al., “Mac-2-binding gl
Ahmed Hafiz
Vasta Gerardo R.
Huff Sheela J
Hultquist Steven J.
Intellectual Property / Technology Law
Reynolds Kelly K.
University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
LandOfFree
Method and assay for early diagnosis of prostate cancer does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with Method and assay for early diagnosis of prostate cancer, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Method and assay for early diagnosis of prostate cancer will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-4111617