Patent ID: 6072033
Filing Date: 2000-06-06
Classification: A61K,A61P,C07K,Y10S

Abstract:
An isolated and purified Interleuken-17 receptor (IL-17R) protein that binds IL-17, selected from the group consisting of:(a) a protein comprising amino acids 1 through 322 of SEQ ID NO.:2;(b) a protein comprising amino acids 1 through 320 of SEQ ID NO.:10;(c) proteins encoded by DNA molecules capable of hybridization to DNAs encoding the proteins of (a) or (b) under stringent conditions, and which bind IL-17; and(d) fragments of the proteins of (a), (b), or (c) which encode proteins comprising an extracellular domain of the proteins of SEQ ID NO.:2 or SEQ ID NO.:10, that bind IL-17.