Patent ID: 9649359
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: A61K,A61P,C07K,C12N

Claim:
1. An isolated polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence that has at least 95% amino acid sequence identity to an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of: SEQ ID NO: 65, SEQ ID NO: 66, SEQ ID NO: 67, SEQ ID NO: 68, SEQ ID NO: 69, SEQ ID NO: 70, SEQ ID NO: 58, SEQ ID NO: 59, SEQ ID NO: 60, SEQ ID NO: 61, SEQ ID NO: 62, SEQ ID NO: 63, and SEQ ID NO: 64, wherein the amino acid at position 423, as determined with reference to SEQ ID NO: 1, is deleted, and wherein the polypeptide has chondrogenic activity.