(12) United States Patent ao) Patent No.: us 6,348,311 Bi
Kastan et al. (45) Date of Patent: Feb. 19,2002
(54) ATM KINASE MODULATION FOR SCREENING AND THERAPIES
(75) Inventors: Michael Kastan; Christine Canman;
Seong-Tae Kim; Dae-Sik Lim, all of
Cordova, TN (US)
(73) Assignees: St. Jude Childre's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN (US); Johns-Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US)
( * ) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days.
(21) Appl. No.: 09/400,653
(22) Filed: Sep. 21, 1999
Related U.S. Application Data
(63) Continuation of application No. 09/248,061, filed on Feb. 10, 1999.
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(52) U.S. CI 435/5; 435/15
(58) Field of Search 435/15, 5
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The present invention relates to identification of the consensus sequence phosphorylated by ATM kinase. This, in turn, permitted identification of ATM kinase target proteins, and development of a convenient assay system for ATM kinase phosphorylation using fusion polypeptides as substrates. The assay system is adaptable to screening for ATM modulators, particularly inhibitors. In a specific embodiment, the substrate recognition sequence and mutagenized variants of this sequence were incorporated in a GST fusion protein and assayed for phosphorylation by ATM kinase. This assay system is useful in screening for ATM inhibitors. ATM function assays were validated using an ATM-kinase dead dominant-negative mutant.
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