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US 7,189,529 · App. 10/013,927 · Granted Mar 13, 2007

PRO792 nucleic acids

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Patent No.
US 7,189,529
App. No.
10/013,927
Granted
Mar 13, 2007
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention is directed to novel polypeptides and to nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides. Also provided herein are vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides of the present invention fused to heterologous polypeptide sequences, antibodies which bind to the polypeptides of the present invention and to methods for producing the polypeptides of the present invention.

Claims (15)

1. An isolated nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide having at least 95% sequence identity to:

(a) the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO:231;

(b) the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO:231, lacking its associated signal peptide;

(c) the amino acid sequence of the polyneptide encoded by the full-length coding sequence of the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:230; or

(d) the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide encoded by the full-length coding sequence of the cDNA deposited under ATCC accession number 209846,

wherein the encoded polypeptide induces chondrocyte re-differentiation.

2. The isolated nucleic acid of claim 1 encoding a polypeptide having at least 99% sequence identity to:

(a) the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO:231; (b) the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO:231, lacking its associated signal peptide;

(c) the amino acid seciuence of the polypeptide encoded by the full-length coding sequence of the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:230; or

(d) the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide encoded by the full-length coding sequence of the cDNA deposited under ATCC accession number 209846,

wherein the encoded polypeptide induces chondrocyte re-differentiation.

3. A vector comprising the nucleic acid of claim 1 .

4. The vector of claim 3 , wherein said nucleic acid is operably linked to control sequences recognized by an isolated host cell transformed with the vector.

5. An isolated host cell comprising the vector of claim 2 .

6. The host cell of claim 5 , wherein said cell is a CHO cell, an E. coli or a yeast cell.