CD40 coding sequences

US5849898A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The General Hospital Corporation · US

Inventors

• Brian Seed · Boston, US
• Janet Allen · Glasgow, GB
• Alejandro A. Aruffo · Edmonds, US
• David Camerini · Charlottesville, US
• Leander Lauffer · Gladenbach, DE
• Carmen Oquendo · Gladenbach, DE
• David Odell Simmons · Gipping, GB
• Ivan Stamenkovic · Winchester, US
• Siegfried Stengelin · Frankfurt am Main, DE
• Martine Amiot · Nantes, FR

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 7, 1995
• Grant date: Dec 15, 1998
• Expiry date: Jun 7, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12N2840/44
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A simple and highly efficient method for cloning cDNAs from mammalian expression libraries based on transient expression in mammalian host cells has been discovered. The present invention specifically provides the CD40 cDNA sequence.