US 7,592,309 B2
	Method of using a peptide having analgesic and antitumor activity from scorpion
Jinghai Zhang, Liaoning (China); Runlin Ma, Beijing (China); Siling Wang, Liaoning (China); Yanfeng Liu, Liaoning (China); and Chunfu Wu, Liaoning (China)
Assigned to Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, Liaoning (China)
Appl. No. 10/491,077 PCT Filed Sep. 29, 2002, PCT No. PCT/CN02/00699 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Dec. 13, 2004, PCT Pub. No. WO03/037922, PCT Pub. Date May 08, 2003.
Claims priority of application No. 01 1 28235 (CN), filed on Sep. 30, 2001.
Prior Publication US 2006/0252676 A1, Nov. 09, 2006
Int. Cl. C07K 7/00 (2006.01); A01N 37/18 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 514—12  [514/2; 530/324]

3 Claims

1. A method comprising the steps of isolating and purifying a peptide consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, the peptide analogue thereof consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 or the peptide derivative thereof consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4, and administering a composition comprising said peptide, said peptide derivative or said peptide analogue to a patient; wherein the step of administering reduces pain or inhibits tumor growth in the patient.