US 7,601,807 B2
Protease, DNA encoding the same, and method for manufacturing protease
Yoshitaka Kanayama, Sendai (Japan); Yasuo Sakai, Sendai (Japan); and Takahiro Hongo, Sendai (Japan)
Assigned to Jellice Co., Ltd., Sendai-shi (Japan)
Filed on Nov. 28, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/287,307.
Application 11/287307 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2004/007419, filed on May 24, 2004.
Claims priority of application No. 2003-148886 (JP), filed on May 27, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2006/0134749 A1, Jun. 22, 2006
Int. Cl. C07K 1/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 530—350  [530/300; 435/69.1; 435/6; 435/320.1; 435/325; 435/252] 12 Claims
 
1. An isolated or purified polypeptide which has a proteolytic activity of cutting at a Gly-Phe site or a Ser-Leu site of a peptide or protein, and which is selected from the group consisting of:
(a) a polypeptide which is encoded by a polynucleotide having at least 95% sequence identity to nucleotides 253-816 of SEQ ID NO: 1,
(b) a polypeptide which is encoded by a polynucleotide that hybridizes to the full complement of nucleotides 1-816 or to the full complement of nucleotides 253-816 of SEQ ID NO: 1 under stringent conditions defined by washing at 65° C. in 0.5×SSC, and
(c) a polypeptide which comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 or 3.