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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2010
Daniel Metzger, Strasbourg, FR;
Pierre Chambon, Blaesheim, FR;
Huimin Zhao, Champaign, IL (US);
John Katzenellenbogen, Urbana, IL (US);
Daniel Metzger, Strasbourg, FR;
Pierre Chambon, Blaesheim, FR;
Huimin Zhao, Champaign, IL (US);
John Katzenellenbogen, Urbana, IL (US);
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS), Paris, FR;
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Urbana, IL (US);
UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG, Strasbourg, FR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for tightly temporally controlling the biological activity of a protein of interest in a vertebrate, upon induction of the activity of a fusion protein comprising said protein of interest and an ERM polypeptide containing a mutated ligand binding domain of the human oestrogen receptor α, with a synthetic ligand that does not interfere with oestrogen signalling. In particular, the present invention concerns a method for generating tightly temporally-controlled targeted somatic mutations in a vertebrate, preferably a mouse, by inducing the activity of a fusion protein comprising a site-specific recombinase protein and an ERM polypeptide, with a synthetic ligand devoid of oestrogenic and anti-oestrogenic activities.