Fusion protein comprising a furin derivative or a derivative of a furin analogue and a heterologous sequence

US6210929A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Baxter Aktiengesellschaft · AT

Inventors

• Uwe Schlokat · Orth an der Donau, AT
• Bernhard Fischer · Wien, AT
• Falko-Guenter Falkner · Orth an der Donau, AT
• Friedrich Dorner · Wien, AT
• Johann Eibl · Wien, AT

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 22, 1996
• Grant date: Apr 3, 2001
• Expiry date: Nov 22, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07K2319/00
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Fusion proteins of an optionally C-terminally deleted furin derivative, or of a derivative of a furin analogue, and a heterologous sequence, methods of preparing the same and methods of recovering proproteins from proteins by using the proproteins according to the invention are described.