Isolated human kinase proteins, nucleic acid molecules encoding human kinase proteins, and uses thereof
View Patent ↗The present invention provides amino acid sequences of peptides that are encoded by genes within the human genome, the kinase peptides of the present invention. The present invention specifically provides isolated peptide and nucleic acid molecules, methods of identifying orthologs and paralogs of the kinase peptides, and methods of identifying modulators of the kinase peptides.
1. An isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of:
(a) a transcript or cDNA sequence that encodes a polypeptide having an amino acid sequence comprising SEQ ID NO:2;
(b) SEQ ID NO:1;
(c) nucleotides 1-1659 of SEQ ID NO:1; and
(d) a nucleotide sequence that is completely complementary to a nucleotide sequence of (a), (b), or (c).
2. An isolated nucleic acid molecule having a nucleotide sequence comprising SEQ ID NO:1 or the complement thereof.
3. An isolated nucleic acid molecule having a nucleotide sequence comprising nucleotides 1-1659 of SEQ ID NO:1 or the complement thereof.
4. An isolated transcript or cDNA nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes a polypeptide comprising SEQ ID NO:2, or the complement of said nucleotide sequence.
5. The isolated nucleic acid molecule of claim 1 , further comprising a heterologous nucleotide sequence.
6. The isolated nucleic acid molecule of claim 5 , wherein the heterologous nucleotide sequence encodes a heterologous amino acid sequence.
7. An isolated nucleic acid molecule, wherein the nucleic acid molecule consists of a nucleotide sequence that encodes a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2 with the exception that residue 512 of SEQ ID NO:2 is proline.
8. An isolated nucleic acid molecule wherein the nucleic acid molecule consists of a nucleotide sequence that encodes a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2 with the exception that residue 512 of SEQ ID NO:2 is threonine.
9. An isolated nucleic acid molecule, wherein the nucleic acid molecule campuses a nucleotide sequence that encodes a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2 with the exception that residue 512 of SEQ ID NO:2 is proline.
10. An isolated nucleic acid molecule wherein the nucleic acid molecule comprises a nucleotide sequence that encodes a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2 wit the exception that residue 512 of SEQ ID NO:2 is threonine.
11. A vector comprising the nucleic acid molecule of any one of claims 1 and 2 , 10 .
12. An isolated host cell containing the vector of claim 11 .
13. A process for producing a polypeptide comprising culturing the host cell of claim 12 under conditions sufficient forte production of said polypeptide, and recovering said polypeptide.
14. The vector of claim 11 , wherein said vector is selected from the group consisting of a plasmid virus, and a bacteriophage.
15. The vector of claim 11 , wherein said nucleic acid molecule is inserted into said vector in proper orientation and correct reading frame such that a polypeptide comprising SEQ ID NO:2 is expressed by a cell transformed wit said vector.
16. The vector of claim 15 , wherein said isolated nucleic acid molecule is operatively linked to a promoter sequence.