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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2002
Filed:
May. 08, 2000
Jiing-Kuan Yee, Del Mar, CA (US);
Theodore Friedmann, La Jolla, CA (US);
Shin-Tai Chen, San Diego, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
The present invention features compositions and methods for the inducible expression of a polypeptide, especially a polypeptide normally cytotoxic to the eukaryotic host cell in which it is to be expressed. A nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide of interest is operably linked to an inducible promoter. Expression from the inducible promoter is regulated by a multi-chimeric transactivating factor, composed of a first ligand-binding domain that negatively regulates transcription, a transcriptional activation domain, and a second ligand-binding domain that positively regulates the transcriptional activation function of the transactivator. Transcription of the nucleotide sequence under control of the inducible promoter is activated by the multi-chimeric transactivator when both the ligand that binds the first ligand-binding domain is absent and the ligand that binds the second ligand-binding domain is present. This inducible expression system is particularly useful in the expression of the cytotoxic protein VSV G for the production of pseudotyped retroviral vectors.