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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:
May. 14, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington, KY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 ; C12P 1/934 ; C12N 1/564 ; C07H 2/104 ; A01H 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 ; C12P 1/934 ; C12N 1/564 ; C07H 2/104 ; A01H 1/00 ;
Abstract
The present invention comprises artificial nucleic acid constructs comprising a bidirectional promoter having minimal promoter and a common promoter, wherein said minimal promoters is operably linked to said common promoter, in opposite orientation to said common promoter, and 5′ to said common promoter. Those artificial nucleic acid constructs, wherein said bidirectional promoter further comprises at least one gene operably linked to said minimal promoter and said common promoter are preferred.