Bryan Boyle - San Francisco CA, US Nancy Mize - Mountain View CA, US Matthew Arterburn - San Jose CA, US Servando Palencia - Santa Cruz CA, US Y Tang - San Jose CA, US Chenghua Liu - San Jose CA, US Radoje Drmanac - Palo Alto CA, US Ivan Labat - Mountain View CA, US Kody Nguyen - Albuquerque NM, US Veronica Garcia - Hayward CA, US
The invention provides novel polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded by such polynucleotides and mutants or variants thereof that correspond to a novel human secreted TGF alpha-like polypeptide. These polynucleotides comprise nucleic acid sequences isolated from cDNA library from human adult kidney (Hyseq clone identification number 16441036). Other aspects of the invention include vectors containing processes for producing novel human secreted TGF alpha-like polypeptides, and antibodies specific for such polypeptides.