Analogs of human granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor
AssigneeImmunex Corporation
InventorsMichael C. Deeley, Steven D. Gimpel, Virginia L. Price
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Abstract
Amplified expression of recombinant DNA products is achieved in hosts expressing protease that cleave at multi-basic amino acid residues. To this end, wild-type genes encoding the desired protein products are mutated by substituting codons or eliminating codons encoding multi-basic amino acid residues while maintaining the activity of the expressed protein product. Mutation of the desired gene can be conveniently carried out by site-specific in vitro mutagenisis.
Claims1
A polypeptide possessing human granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating activity, comprising an amino-acid sequence extending from amino acid residue No. 1 to amino acid residue No. 127 in the following sequence, wherein the arginine residue occupying position No. 23 has been replaced with a leucine residue:
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