Method for identifying or isolating a molecule and molecules identified thereby

Abstract From the Canadian patent

The invention described methods for identifying a molecule of interest as , well as nucleic acid molecules which encode it and binding partners for it. A , cDNA library from a cell expressing the target is prepared and expressed in , host cells. Lysates of the host cells are screened with a sample treated to , remove interfering binding partners. The treatment involves contact of the sample to lysates of untransfected host cells and host cells transfected or , transformed with the same vector used to make the cDNA library. Also a part of the invention are antigens and cDNA identified using the methodology.