Back to results
US 5,708,138 AGranted
Immunoreactive peptides of apo(a)
AssigneePerImmune Holdings, Inc.
InventorsW. C. Taddei-Peters, Sandra M. Butler
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The present invention relates to peptides immunoreactive with anti-apolipoprotein(a) antibodies and to their use in raising monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies, in immunoassays and of their corresponding oligonucleotides as probes and primers in nucleic acid methodology,
Claims4
A peptide that contains less than the entire sequence of apo(a) and that has a sequence corresponding to an amino acid sequence found in human and Old World monkey Apo(a) and that has at least one amino acid that is different;
- from the corresponding position in human and Old World monkey plasminogen, and wherein said peptide comprises an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:2, SEQ ID NO:4, SEQ ID NO:6, SEQ ID NO:10, SEQ ID NO:12, SEQ ID NO:14, SEQ ID NO:16, SEQ ID NO:18, SEQ ID NO:20 and SEQ ID NO:22, or portions thereof that are capable of raising antibodies that react with apo(a) and not plasminogen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.