Artificial skin prepared from coclagen matrix containing transforming growth factor-.beta. having a collagen binding site

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PATENT NO 5800811
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08470837

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An artificial skin is prepared by impregnating a collagen matrix with a transforming growth factor-.beta. having a collagen-binding site to bind the growth factor to the collagen matrix, incubating the impregnated matrix with a source of fibroblasts and mesenchymal stem cells to form a captured population of mesenchymal stem cells within the impregnated matrix and incubating the resultant matrix with a source of keratinocytes which epithelialize the matrix to form an artificial skin. The collagen matrix is preferably in the form of a collagen sheet. The transforming growth factor-.beta. can be transforming growth factor-.beta..sub.1, transforming growth factor-.beta..sub.2 or transforming growth factor-.beta..sub.3. Preferably, the transforming growth factor-.beta. having a collagen binding site is a fusion protein having a purification tag, at least one proteinase site, an extracellular matrix binding site and a transforming growth factor active fragment. The extracellular matrix binding site binds collagen, fibronectin or a cell surface. A method of preparing the fusion protein involves purifying and renaturing transforming growth factor-.beta. protein to provide an active fusion protein.

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EPEIUS BIOTECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION475 HUNTINGTON DRIVE SAN MARINO CA 91108

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Cheung, David T 10 W. Palm Dr., Arcadia, CA 91007 24 1733
Hall, Frederick L 345 Pioneer Dr., Suite 1803 W., Glendale, CA 91203 44 304
Nimni, Marcel E 2800 Neilson Way, #908, Santa Monica, CA 90405 16 524
Tuan, Tai-Lan 1020 Windsor St., Anaheim, CA 92805 2 66
Wu, Lingtau 1114 Valencia Way, Arcadia, CA 91006 2 59

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