CAT OBESITY GENE, ITS GENE PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cat obesity gene usable for the investigation of the obesity mechanism and the treatment of obesity of a cat kept as an experimental animal or a pet animal and provide its gene product (hereinafter referred to as cat leptin). SOLUTION: A cat obesity gene, a polypeptide encoded by the gene, a plasmid integrated with the gene, a transformant transformed with the plasmid and a method for producing the polypeptide (cat leptin) by culturing the transformant on a medium.