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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 1995
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jeffrey D Turner, Hudson, CA;
Assignee:
McGill University, Quebec, CA;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ; C12N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
4352402 ; 4351723 ; 4352401 ; 43524021 ; 435948 ; 935 70 ; 935111 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a ruminant immortalized mammary epithelial cell line which has normal physiological responses in that it produces milk constituents which comprises .alpha. and .beta.-casein and lactose. There is provided, using the cell line of the present invention a method in vitro studying lactation. There is provided a method of in vitro screening for gene expression of DNA constructs for transgenic ruminant animals. The cell line can be further used in a method for expressing foreign genes. One cell line of the present invention has been deposited at the ATCC under the accession number CRL10274.