Patent ID: 7824872

Claim:
A method of screening for a therapeutic agent for pancreatic cancer, wherein the method comprises the steps of: (a) contacting a test substance, or a salt thereof, with a purified serine/threonine kinase Pim-1 polypeptide or a partial peptide thereof having Pim-1 phosphorylation activity; (b) detecting the phosphorylation activity of the purified serine/threonine kinase Pim-1 polypeptide; and (c) identifying a test substance that inhibits the phosphorylation activity of the purified serine/threonine kinase Pim-1 polypeptide, wherein a test substance that inhibits the phosphorylation activity of the serine/threonine kinase Pim-1 polypeptide is a therapeutic agent for pancreatic cancer.