Secreted and transmembrane polypeptides and nucleic acids encoding the same

US7390879B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Genentech, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Avi Ashkenazi · San Mateo, US
• Kevin Baker · Travilah, US
• David Botstein · Belmont, US
• Luc Desnoyers · San Francisco, US
• Dan Eaton · San Rafael, US
• Napoleone Ferrara · San Francisco, US
• Sherman Fong · Alameda, US
• Wei-Qiang Gao · Palo Alto, US
• Hanspeter Gerber · San Francisco, US
• Mary Gerritsen · San Mateo, US
• Audrey Goddard · San Francisco, US
• Paul Godowski · Hillsborough, US
• Austin Gurney · Belmont, US
• Ivar Kljavin · Lafayette, US
• Jennie P. Mather · Millbrae, US
• Mary Napier · Hillsborough, US
• James Pan · Belmont, US
• Nicholas Paoni · Moraga, US
• Margaret Roy · San Francisco, US
• Timothy Stewart · San Francisco, US
• Daniel Tumas · Orinda, US
• Colin Watanabe · Moraga, US
• P. Williams · Rue de l'Église, US
• William I. Wood · Hillsborough, US
• Zemin Zhang · Foster City, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 23, 2002
• Grant date: Jun 24, 2008
• Expiry date: Jul 4, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07K14/47
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention is directed to novel polypeptides and to nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides. Also provided herein are vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides of the present invention fused to heterologous polypeptide sequences, antibodies which bind to the polypeptides of the present invention and to methods for producing the polypeptides of the present invention.