SCL: a hematopoietic growth and differentiation factor

Chemistry: natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; – Proteins – i.e. – more than 100 amino acid residues – Hormones – e.g. – prolactin – thymosin – growth factors – etc.

Patent

Rate now

  [ 0.00 ] – not rated yet Voters 0   Comments 0

Details

530324, C07K 1300, C07K 102, A61K 3702, A61K 3700

Patent

active

052141330

ABSTRACT:
We have identified a new human gene, SCL. We discovered this gene because of its involvement in a chromosomal translocation associated with the occurrence of a stem cell leukemia manifesting myeloid and lymphoid differentiation capabilities. Here we report the sequence of a cDNA for the normal SCL transcript, as well as for an aberrant fusion transcript produced in the leukemic cells. Although different at their 3' untranslated regions, both cDNAs predict a protein with primary amino acid sequence homology to the previously described amphipathic helix-loop-helix DNA binding and dimerization motif of the Lyl-1, myc, MyoD, Ig enhancer binding, daughterless, and achaete-scute families of genes. For these cDNAs, two forms of the SCL protein (greater than 20 and 30 kD) are predicted, both of which retain this putative DNA binding domain. The pattern of expression of SCL mRNA is primarily predominant in early hematopoietic tissues. Taken together, these studies lead to the speculation that SCL plays a role in differentiation and/or commitment events during hematopoiesis.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4808611 (1989-02-01), Cosman
patent: 4810643 (1989-03-01), Souza
patent: 4879227 (1989-11-01), Clark et al.
patent: 5132212 (1992-07-01), Kirsch et al.
Maniatis et al., Molecular Cloning-A Laboratory Manual, pp. 11-14, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 1982.
Murre et al., Cell, vol. 58, pp. 537-544 (1989).
Murre et al., Cell, vol. 56, pp. 777-783 (1989).
Mellentin et al., Cell, vol. 58, pp. 77-83 (1989).
Begley et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, vol. 86, pp. 2031-2035 (1989).
Aplan et al., Molecular and Cellular Biology, pp. 6426-6435 (1990).

LandOfFree

Say what you really think

Search LandOfFree.com for the USA inventors and patents. Rate them and share your experience with other people.

Rating

SCL: a hematopoietic growth and differentiation factor does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with SCL: a hematopoietic growth and differentiation factor, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and SCL: a hematopoietic growth and differentiation factor will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

     

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-897998

  Search
All data on this website is collected from public sources. Our data reflects the most accurate information available at the time of publication.