Inventors:
Richard Palmiter - Seattle WA
Eric P. Sandgren - Philadelphia PA
Ralph L. Brinster - Gladwyne PA
Assignee:
University of Washington - Seattle WA
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia PA
International Classification:
C12P 2102, C12P 2100, C12N 1509, C07H 2104
Abstract:
Vertebrate gene locus control regions linked to a structural gene of interest and inserted into a transgenic animal are capable of bestowing tissue-independent, copy number-dependent, position-independent gene expression. Recombinant proteins of interest encoded by structural genes linked to the metallothionein locus control regions may be prepared following expression in transgenic animal hosts.