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The invention provides a transgenic mouse that is a model for heart muscle disease and heart failure. Also provided are methods of using the transgenic mouse model to study heart muscle disease and heart failure and conditions and treatments related thereto.
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An adhesin protein which binds specifically to phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), gangliotriaosylceramide (Gg3) and gangliotetraosylceramide (Gg4) has been isolated and purified from H. influenzae. Also provided are immunogenic compositions and methods of protecting susceptible mammals from diseases caused by bacterial pathogens having the adhesin as a surface protein.
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The present invention provides a nucleic acid sequences coding for the ryegrass pollen allergens Lol pIa and Lol pIb, purified Lol pIa and Lol pIb protein and fragments thereof, methods of producing recombinant Lol pIa and Lol pIb or at least one fragment thereof or derivative or homologue thereof, and methods of using the nucleic acid sequences, proteins and peptides of the invention.
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A novel gene defining a novel enzyme in the UDP-D-galactose: &bgr;-N-acetylglucosamine/&bgr;-N-acetylgalactosamine &bgr;1,3galactosyltransferase family, termed &bgr;3Gal-T5, with unique enzymatic properties is disclosed. The enzymatic activity of &bgr;3Gal-T5 is shown to be distinct from that of previously identified enzymes of this gene family. The invention discloses isolated DNA molecules and DNA constructs encoding &bgr;3Gal-T5 and derivatives thereof by way of amino acid deletion, substitution or insertion exhibiting &bgr;3Gal-T5 activity, as well as cloning and expression vectors including such DNA, cells tranfected with the vectors, and recombinant methods for providing &bgr;3Gal-T5. The enzyme &bgr;3Gal-T5 and &bgr;3Gal-T5-active derivatives thereof are disclosed, in particular soluble derivatives comprising the catalytically active domain of &bgr;3Gal-T5. Further, the invention discloses methods of obtaining &bgr;1,3galactosyl glycosylated saccharides, glycopeptides or glycoproteins by use of an enzymically active &bgr;3Gal-T5 protein or fusion protein thereof or by using cells stably transfected with a vector including DNA encoding an enzymatically active &bgr;3Gal-T5 protein as an expression system for recombinant production of such glycopeptides or glycoproteins. Also a method for the identification of DNA sequence variations in the &bgr;3Gal-T5 gene by isolating DNA from a patient, amplifying &bgr;3Gal-T5-coding exons by PCR, and detecting the presence of DNA sequence variation, are disclosed.
摘要:
The present invention is directed to a method for expression of at least one heterologous gene in a host cell comprising transforming a host cell with at least one nucleic acid construct comprising a complete &agr; subunit of an RNA polymerase or a portion thereof of a hybrid nucleic acid containing a portion of the &agr; subunit of an RNA polymerase obtained from the same genus as the heterologous gene, and transforming the host cell, with at least one heterologous gene; and culturing the transformed host cell. The present invention further is directed to nucleic acid molecules used in the present method, vectors containing these nucleic acid molecules, and host cells containing the nucleic acid molecules. The nucleic acid encoding the &agr; subunit of an Agrobacterium RNA polymerase and the corresponding amino acid sequence and portions thereof is disclosed.
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A technique for controlling membrane denaturation reactions other than physical shear force was developed. For example, the present invention provides, a method for causing membrane disruption at a specific site by reacting a stimulus such as light with a compound that is activated by the stimulus, where the reaction occurs on a membrane such as a biomembrane. It also provides a membrane structure such as cells in which a specific site has been disrupted, which are obtained by the present method. Introduction of substances such as genes also became possible by using this membrane structure. Further provided is a membrane-destroying member for disrupting a membrane at a specific site. Thus, the present invention enabled, for example, easy membrane penetration using components constituting microelectrodes, micromanipulators, and microinjectors, which were conventionally hardly usable in penetrating cell membranes.
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The present invention relates to a DNA sequence, a 5′ regulatory element allowing the expression of a heterologous gene in a plant cell from a monocotyledonous plant, characterized in that it comprises, in the direction of transcription, a first DNA sequence, which is a functional fragment of the sequence of the maize H3C4 promoter, and a second DNA sequence, which is a functional fragment of the sequence of the first intron of rice actin. The invention also relates to a chimeric gene comprising the said DNA sequence and the plants transformed with the said gene.
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This invention concerns the preparation and use of an isolated nucleic acid fragments in order to confer a resistance gene mediated defense response in plants against a fungus comprising in its genome virulent and/or avirulent AVR-Pita alleles. Chimeric genes incorporating such fragments and suitable regulatory sequences can be used to create transgenic plants which can produce a resistance gene mediated defense response against a fungus comprising in its genome virulent and/or avirulent AVR-Pita alleles.
摘要:
This invention relates to the field of biotechnology, particularly as it pertains to a nucleic acid molecule encoding a protein associated with sterol and phytosterol synthesis and metabolism. The invention also relates to methods of detection using the nucleic acid molecule, or the encoded protein as a probe or in a microarray.