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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 1991
Filed:
Feb. 28, 1989
Robert J Okker, Oegstgeest, NL;
Egbertus J Lugtenberg, Woerden, NL;
Robbert A Schilperoort, 2334 CD Leiden, NL;
Rijksuniversileit Leiden, Leiden, NL;
Other;
Abstract
A process for the activation of genes in micro-organisms, in which genes not occurring as such in nature are activated by contact with plants or with the substance or substances causing the activation and present or not in plant fragments or plant exudates, the genes used consisting of one or more proteins encoding fragments of one or more natural genes and/or one or more synthetically produced DNA-sequences, which encode for one or more proteins and a promotor region originating from one of the genes naturally present in micro-organisms and being of such a nature that respectively the effecting or omitting of the above-mentioned contact makes it possible to activate the artificially constructed gene or genes or to stop the activity of the gene or genes, respectively.