Patent ID: 8287884

Claim:
A composition comprising: (a) an isolated polypeptide comprising a fragment of SEQ ID NO: 4618, wherein the fragment of SEQ ID NO: 4618 consists of at least one hundred contiguous amino acids of the amino acid sequence SEQ ID NO: 4618; (b) an isolated hybrid protein represented by the formula NH 2 -A-[-X-L-] n -Bâ€”COOH, wherein X is the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4618, L is an optional linker amino acid sequence, A is an optional N-terminal amino acid sequence, B is an optional C-terminal amino acid sequence, and n is an integer greater than 1; or (c) an isolated protein comprising an amino acid sequence which is at least 95% identical to the amino acid sequence SEQ ID NO: 4618.