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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 03, 1998
John R. Snyder, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Thomas K. Hodges, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Leszek A. Lyznik, Johnston, IA (US);
John R. Snyder, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Thomas K. Hodges, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Leszek A. Lyznik, Johnston, IA (US);
Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Abstract
This invention relates to a method of biocatalytically producing compounds that are commercially valuable but are detrimental to the host cells' development. The transgenic plants produced in accordance with the present invention comprise a novel controlled expression system comprising a promoter (), a blocking sequence (a), and a structural gene (), wherein the blocking sequence (a) is flanked by a pair of directly repeated site-specific recombination sequences (). The blocking sequence (a) prevents expression of the structural gene () until removal of the blocking sequence (a) by site-specific recombinase activity encoded by a site-specific recombinase gene ().