The invention provides isolated nucleic acids encoding a variety of proteins
having diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic, and other uses. These nucleic and proteins
are useful for diagnosis, prevention, and therapy of a number of human and other
animal disorders. The invention also provides antisense nucleic acid molecules,
expression vectors containing the nucleic acid molecules of the invention, host
cells into which the expression vectors have been introduced, and non-human transgenic
animals in which a nucleic acid molecule of the invention has been introduced or
disrupted. The invention still further provides isolated polypeptides, fusion polypeptides,
antigenic peptides and antibodies. Diagnostic, screening, and therapeutic methods
utilizing compositions of the invention are also provided. The nucleic acids and
polypeptides of the present invention are useful as modulating agents in regulating
a variety of cellular processes.