Patent ID: 7396824

Claim:
An isolated nucleic acid molecule selected from the group consisting of: (a) nucleic acid molecules which hybridize under stringent conditions to a nucleic acid molecule having a nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of nucleotide sequences set forth as SEQ ID NOs: 1 and 3, and which code for a 2-O sulfatase, wherein the hybridization conditions are 1) hybridization at 65° C. in hybridization buffer that consists of 3.5×SSC, 0.02% Ficoll, 0.02% polyvinyl pyrrolidone, 0.02% Bovine Serum Albumin, 2.5 mM NaH2PO4, pH 7, 0.5% sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS), 2 mM ethylenediaminetetracetic acid (EDTA), wherein SSC is 0.15M sodium chloride/0.015M sodium citrate, pH 7 and 2) washing in 2×SSC at room temperature and then in 0.1×SSC/0.1×SDS at 68° C., (b) nucleic acid molecules that differ from the nucleic acid molecules of (a) in codon sequence due to degeneracy of the genetic code, and (c) full complements of (a) or (b).