UDP-galactose: β-N-acetyl-glucosamine...

Details UDP-galactose: β-N-acetyl-glucosamine... UDP-galactose: β-N-acetyl-glucosamine...

2008-05-20

2008-05-20

Slobodyansky, Elizabeth (Department: 1652)

Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology

Enzyme , proenzyme; compositions thereof; process for...

Transferase other than ribonuclease

C536S023200

Reexamination Certificate

active

11105796

ABSTRACT:
A novel gene defining a novel enzyme in the UDP-D-galactose: b-N-acetyl-glucosamine β-1,4-galactosyltransferase family, termed β4Gal-T2, with unique enzymatic properties is disclosed. The enzymatic activity of β4Gal-T2 is shown to be distinct from that of previously identified enzymes of this gene family. The invention discloses isolated DNA molecules and DNA constructs encoding β4Gal-T2 and derivatives thereof by way of amino acid deletion, substitution or insertion exhibiting β4Gal-T2 activity, as well as cloning and expression vectors including such DNA, cells transfected with the vectors, and recombinant methods for providing β4Gal-T2. The enzyme β4Gal-T2 and β4Gal-T2-active derivatives thereof are disclosed, in particular soluble derivatives comprising the catalytically active domain of β4Gal-T2. Further, the invention discloses methods of obtaining β-1,4-galactosyl glycosylated saccharides, glycopeptides or glycoproteins by use of an enzymically active β4Gal-T2 protein or fusion protein thereof or by using cells stably transfected with a vector including DNA encoding an enzymatically active β4Gal-T2 protein as an expression system for recombinant production of such glycopeptides or glycoproteins. Also a method for the identification of DNA sequence variations in the β4Gal-T2 gene by isolating DNA from a patient, amplifying β4Gal-T2-coding exons by PCR, and detecting the presence of DNA sequence variation, are disclosed.

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