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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Li Fang, Allentown, PA (US);
Weining Jiang, New York, NY (US);
Masanori Mitta, Kyoto, JP;
Masayori Inouye, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Assignee:
The University of Medicine and Denistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ; C12N / ; C07H / ; C07H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435471 ; 4352523 ; 4353201 ; 536 231 ; 536 241 ; 536 245 ; 536 251 ;
Abstract
A method of inhibiting the translation of bacterial mRNA is disclosed, which method comprises overexpressing in a bacterium an mRNA which contains a sequence which is complementary to the anti-downstream box region of the 16S rRNA. RNA and DNA constructs for the overexpression of the mRNA of the invention are disclosed.