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 using
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.