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US 5,627,039 AGranted
Mortalin and methods for determining complementation group assignment of cancer cells
AssigneeBaylor College of Medicine
InventorsOlivia M. Pereira-Smith, Renu Wadhwa
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Abstract
The intracellular distribution of mortalin is used to determine the complementation group of tumor cells. Also disclosed are the gene sequences that encode mortalin and the amino acid sequence of the mortalin proteins.
Claims6
A method for determining the complementation group of an immortalized cell, which comprises:
- (A) determining the intracellular distribution of a mortalin in said cell;
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- (B) correlating the determined distribution with the distribution of mortalin exhibited by cells of complementation group A, B, C or D.
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