Patent 7846894 was granted and assigned to Agency for Science, Technology and Research on December, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Provided is an isolated polypeptide comprising a Cricetulus griseus sequence capable of mediating apoptosis of a cell, the sequence being selected from a FAIM sequence shown as SEQ ID NO: 1; a FADD sequence shown as SEQ ID NO: 2; a PDCD6 sequence shown as SEQ ID NO: 3; and a Requiem sequence shown as SEQ ID NO: 4.