Inventors:
Donald L. Robertson - Orem UT
Kuhia Loren Fisher - Salt Lake City UT
Assignee:
Brigham Young University - Provo UT
International Classification:
C12P 1934, C12N 1579, C12N 510, C07H 2104
Abstract:
The invention relates to virally-encoded nucleic acid sequences derived from a region 5' to the transcriptional start site of the virus which contain at least one direct repeat of a fragment of a hormone-responsive element. In a preferred embodiment, the virus is murine mammary tumor virus, and the hormone-responsive element is a glucocorticoid responsive element.