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Luminescent chimeric proteins

US6087476A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 7, 1997
Grant dateJul 11, 2000
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Expiry dateAug 7, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
  • CPC primaryC12N2740/16122
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The invention relates to luminescent chimeric proteins which include a photoprotein and a second protein which may be light- or heavy-chain immunoglobulin, an antigenic peptide, avidin, streptavidin, or protein A. The invention also relates to chimeric protein genes, plasmids containing said gene, and hosts transformed with said plasmid. The invention also relates to a range of highly sensitive immunoassays which use the chimeric proteins.

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