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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 16, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Timothy Donohue, Middleton, WI (US);
Robert Barber, State College, PA (US);
Vernon Witthuhn, Fitchburg, WI (US);
Assignee:
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/20 ; C12N 1/21 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/20 ; C12N 1/21 ;
Abstract
Environmental formaldehyde can be detected and remediated in a biological system that incorporates a bacterial cell containing suitable genetic sequences encoding a formaldehyde-inducible regulatory system. The system includes a transcriptional promoter that can be specifically induced in the presence of formaldehyde to transcribe an operably linked gene.