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US 6,979,730 B2Granted
Nucleic acids encoding prostate stem cell antigen
AssigneeThe Regents of the University of California
InventorsRobert E. Reiter, Owen N. Witte, Douglas C. Saffran, Aya Jakobovits
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Abstract
The invention provides a novel prostate cell-surface antigen, designated Prostate Stem Cell Antigen (PSCA), which is widely over-expressed across all stages of prostate cancer, including high grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN), androgen-dependent and androgen-independent prostate tumors.
Claims4
An isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding a protein having the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:2, wherein the nucleic acid molecule has the nucleotide sequence as shown in FIG. 1A (SEQ ID NO:
- 1).
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