Patent ID: 7544482

Claim:
An isolated nucleic acid comprising: (a) a nucleic acid sequence encoding the polypeptide shown in FIG. 12 (SEQ ID NO: 12); (b) a nucleic acid sequence encoding the polypeptide shown in FIG. 12 (SEQ ID NO: 12), lacking its associated signal peptide; (c) the nucleic acid sequence shown in FIG. 11 (SEQ ID NO: 11); (d) the full-length coding sequence of the nucleic acid sequence shown in FIG. 11 (SEQ ID NO: 11); or (e) the full-length coding sequence of the cDNA deposited under ATCC accession number PTA-202; wherein the nucleic acid of (a)-(e) encodes a polypeptide that binds to IL-17E.