# US 5,349,058 A · Nucleic acid encoding human mevalonate kinase

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- Number: US 5,349,058 A
- Document ID: US5349058A
- Status: Granted
- Kind: A
- Application number: 07/475,577
- Filed: 1990-02-06
- Granted: 1994-09-20
- Earliest claimed: 1990-02-06
- Assignees: E. R. Squibb & Sons, Inc.
- Inventors: Richard D. Tanaka; Beverly S. Ricci; Stephen T. Mosley
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US5349058A

## CPC

- C12N 9/12: transferring phosphorus containing groups, e.g. kinases (2.7)
- C12N: MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA (microbiological testing media C12Q1/00)

## Abstract

Nucleic acid sequences, particularly DNA sequences, coding for all or a portion of human mevalonate kinase, expression vectors containing the DNA sequences, host cells containing the expression vectors, and methods for detecting the DNA sequences or the corresponding RNA sequences. The invention also concerns polypeptide molecules comprising all or a portion of human mevalonate kinase.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An isolated and purified nucleic acid selected from the group consisting of the nucleic acid of FIGS. 1A and 1B and a nucleic acid that is 100% complementary to the nucleic acid of FIGS. 1A and 1B.