Patent ID: 7041499

Claim:
A monoclonal antibody produced by: (a) injecting an animal with a proteinaceous molecule to produce an immunized animal, wherein the proteinaceous molecule is (SEQID No.: 3), (SEQID No.: 4), or (SEQID No.: 5); (b) harvesting spleen cells from the immunized animal to give harvested spleen cells; (c) fusing the harvested spleen cells with an immortal cell line to produce a fusion cell line; (d) screening the fusion cell line to identify cells that specifically produce a monoclonal antibody with affinity toward (SEQID No.: 3), (SEQID No.: 4), or (SEQID No.: 5); and (e) selecting and expanding the fusion cell line only with cells that specifically produce the monoclonal antibody.