Patent 7371823 was granted and assigned to Icagen, Inc. on May, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The invention provides isolated nucleic acid and amino acid sequences of CNG3B, antibodies to CNG3B, methods of detecting CNG3B, and methods of screening for modulators of cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channels using biologically active CNG3B. The invention further provides, in a computer system, a method of screening for mutations of human CNG3B genes as well as a method for identifying a three-dimensional structure of human CNG3B polypeptides.