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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 1991

Filed:

Mar. 31, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:

John M Abrams, New York, NY (US);

Robert T Schimke, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Susan M Thorpe, Copenhagen, DK;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ; C12N / ; C12N / ; C12N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435 691 ; 4351723 ; 4352401 ; 4353201 ; 536 27 ; 935 34 ; 935 61 ; 935 66 ; 935 70 ; 935 71 ; 935 79 ; 935 84 ;
Abstract

DNA constructs are provided employing intronically positioned expression, systems, where one of the genes is a dominant gene, usually amplifiable, and the other gene encodes a sequence of interest. Higher levels of co-expression are achieved than when the genese are ligated in tandem. Specifically, the gene of interest is inserted into the intron of a DHFR minigene, the construct transformed into a mammalian cell and the resulting transformants stressed with progressively increasing levels of methotrexate. Substantially increasing levels of co-expression are achieved with increasing levels of methotrexate.


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