1320 results about "Protein coding" patented technology

The present invention provides molecular constructs and methods for use thereof, including constructs including heterologous miRNA recognition sites, constructs for gene suppression including a gene suppression element embedded within an intron flanked on one or on both sides by non-protein-coding sequence, constructs containing engineered miRNA or miRNA precursors, and constructs for suppression of production of mature microRNA in a cell. Also provided are transgenic plant cells, plants, and seeds containing such constructs, and methods for their use. The invention further provides transgenic plant cells, plants, and seeds containing recombinant DNA for the ligand-controlled expression of a target sequence, which may be endogenous or exogenous. Also disclosed are novel miRNAs and miRNA precursors from crop plants including maize and soy.

The present invention provides DNA molecules that constitute fragments of the genome of a plant, and polypeptides encoded thereby. The DNA molecules are useful for specifying a gene product in cells, either as a promoter or as a protein coding sequence or as an UTR or as a 3′ termination sequence, and are also useful in controlling the behavior of a gene in the chromosome, in controlling the expression of a gene or as tools for genetic mapping, recognizing or isolating identical or related DNA fragments, or identification of a particular individual organism, or for clustering of a group of organisms with a common trait. One of ordinary skill in the art, having this data, can obtain cloned DNA fragments, synthetic DNA fragments or polypeptides constituting desired sequences by recombinant methodology known in the art or described herein

Systems and methods are provided for predicting patient response to a therapy regimen for a liver disease or a disease that is treatable with an immunomodulatory disease therapy using gene expression classifiers. Systems and methods for screening for modulators of target gene expression are also provided. Systems and methods for developing therapeutics against one or more of the proteins coded for by genes of the present invention are also provided. Systems and methods for predicting a patient response to a regimen of pegylated interferon alpha and ribavirin in a therapy for hepatitis C viral infection are also provided.

An isolated linear nucleic acid molecule comprising in this order: a first adeno-associated virus (AAV) inverted terminal repeat (ITR), a nucleotide sequence of interest and a second AAV ITR, wherein said nucleic acid molecule is devoid of AAV capsid protein coding sequences. The said nucleic acid molecule can be applied to a host at repetition without eliciting an immune response. Methods for producing and purifying this nucleic acid molecule, and use of the same for therapeutic purposes are also provided.

A virus-producing cell sustaining the ability to produce viruses at high titer is successfully constructed by expressing the virus structural gene under the regulation of EF1α promoter. In this virus-producing cell, the virus structural gene is ligated to a selection marker gene via IRES and domains other than the protein coding domain are eliminated from the DNA encoding virus structural proteins. Thus, reduction of the titer due to cell passages can be prevented and emergence of wild type viruses caused by unfavorable recombination of the virus genome can be inhibited.

The present invention provides DNA molecules that constitute fragments of the genome of a plant, and polypeptides encoded thereby. The DNA molecules are useful for specifying a gene product in cells, either as a promoter or as a protein coding sequence or as an UTR or as a 3′ termination sequence, and are also useful in controlling the behavior of a gene in the chromosome, in controlling the expression of a gene or as tools for genetic mapping, recognizing or isolating identical or related DNA fragments, or identification of a particular individual organism, or for clustering of a group of organisms with a common trait. One of ordinary skill in the art, having this data, can obtain cloned DNA fragments, synthetic DNA fragments or polypeptides constituting desired sequences by recombinant methodology known in the art or described herein.

The present invention is concerned with non-soluble proteins and soluble or insoluble fragments thereof, which bind TNF, in homogeneous form, as well as their physiologically compatible salts, especially those proteins having a molecular weight of about 55 or 75 kD (non-reducing SDS-PAGE conditions), a process for the isolation of such proteins, antibodies against such proteins, DNA sequences which code for non-soluble proteins and soluble or non-soluble fragments thereof, which bind TNF, as well as those which code for proteins comprising partly of a soluble fragment, which binds TNF, and partly of all domains except the first of the constant region of the heavy chain of human immunoglobulins and the recombinant proteins coded thereby as well as a process for their manufacture using transformed pro- and eukaryotic host cells.

An isolated linear nucleic acid molecule comprising in this order: a first adeno-associated virus (AAV) inverted terminal repeat (ITR), a nucleotide sequence of interest and a second AAV ITR, wherein said nucleic acid molecule is devoid of AAV capsid protein coding sequences. The said nucleic acid molecule can be applied to a host at repetition without eliciting an immune response. Methods for producing and purifying this nucleic acid molecule, and use of the same for therapeutic purposes are also provided.

Methods and constructs for the introduction of multiple genes into plants using a single transformation event are described. Constructs contain a single 5′ promoter operably linked to DNA encoding a modified intein splicing unit. The splicing unit is expressed as a polyprotein and consists of a first protein fused to an intein fused to a second protein. The splicing unit has been engineered to promote excision of all non-essential components in the polyprotein but prevent the ligation reactions normally associated with protein splicing. Additional genetic elements encoding inteins and additional proteins can be fused in frame to the 5′-terminus of the coding region for the second protein to form a construct for expression of more than two proteins. A single 3′ termination sequence, such as a polyadenylation sequence when the construct is to be expressed in eucaryotic cells, follows the last coding sequence. These methods and constructs are particularly useful for creating plants with stacked input traits, illustrated by glyphosate tolerant plants producing BT toxin, and / or value added products, illustrated by the production of polyhydroxyalkanoates in plants.

The present invention provides modified hepatitis C virus genomic RNA, comprising nucleotide sequences of genomic RNA portions of two or more types of hepatitis C viruses, which comprises a 5′ untranslated region, a core protein coding sequence, an E1 protein coding sequence, a p7 protein coding sequence, an E2 protein coding sequence, an NS2 protein coding sequence, an NS3 protein coding sequence, an NS4A protein coding sequence, an NS4B protein coding sequence, an NS5A protein coding sequence, an NS5B protein coding sequence, and a 3′ untranslated region, and which can be autonomously replicated. In particular, the present invention relates to modified hepatitis C virus genomic RNA, which can be autonomously replicated by substitution of the RNA sequence portion encoding NS3, NS4, NS5A, and NS5B proteins of hepatitis C virus genomic RNA with a partial RNA sequence encoding NS3, NS4, NS5A, and NS5B proteins of a JFH1 strain shown in SEQ ID NO: 1.

The invention belongs to the field of genetic engineering, discloses a streptococcus thermophilus derived target sequence recognizable by a CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat)-Cas9 (CRISPR associated 9) system and further discloses a sgRNA (single guide ribonucleic acid) and a coding DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) molecule thereof. The target sequence is shown as n-20th of any one of SEQ ID NO:1-63, wherein n=1-5. A sequence of the sgRNA is 5'-recognition sequence- Cas9 protein recruitment sequence-3', and a DNA sequence corresponding to the recognition sequence is identical to the target sequence. The invention also discloses the CRISPR-Cas9 system, and the CRISPR-Cas9 system comprises Cas9 proteins and sgRNA and / or comprises carriers carrying a Cas9 protein coding sequence and a sgRNA coding sequence. The invention further discloses application of the CRISPR-Cas9 system to CXCR4 gene editing and preparation of medicines for treating HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection. CXCR4 gene editing can be realized to protect cells from HIV infection.

The use of model T cell receptors (TCRs) as scaffolds for in vitro engineering of novel specificities is provided. TCRs with de novo binding to a specific peptide-major histocompatibility complex (MHC) product can be isolated by: 1) mutagenizing a T cell receptor protein coding sequence to generate a variegated population of mutants (a library), 2) selection of the library of TCR mutants with the specific peptide-MHC, using a process of directed evolution and a “display” methodology (e.g., yeast, phage, mammalian cell) and the peptide-MHC ligand. The process can be repeated to identify TCR variants with improved affinity for the selecting peptide-MHC ligand.

This invention relates to a peptide or protein capable of converting a transcription factor into a transcriptional repressor, a gene encoding such peptide or protein, a chimeric protein in which the aforementioned peptide or protein is fused to a transcription factor, a chimeric gene in which the gene encoding a peptide or protein is fused to a gene encoding a transcription factor, a recombinant vector having such chimeric gene, and a transformant comprising such recombinant vector. The peptide of the invention that is capable of converting a transcription factor into a transcriptional repressor is very short. Thus, it can be very easily synthesized, and it can effectively and selectively repress the transcription of a specific gene. Accordingly, such gene is applicable to and useful in a wide variety of fields, such as repression of the expression of cancerous genes and regulation of the expression of genes encoding pigment-metabolic enzymes.

The INK4A (MTS1, CDKN2) gene encodes a specific inhibitor (InK4a-p16) of the cyclin D-dependent kinases CDK4 and CDK6. InK4a-p16 can block these kinase from phosphorylating the retinoblastoma protein (pRb), preventing exit from the G1 phase of the cell cycle. Deletions and mutations involving the gene encoding InK4a-p16, INK4A, occur frequently in cancer cells, implying that INK4a-p16, like pRb, suppresses tumor formulation. However, a completely unrelated protein (ARF-p19) arises in major part from an alternative reading frame of the mouse INK4A gene. Expression of an ARF-p19 cDNA (SEQ ID NO:1) in rodent fibroblasts induces both G1 and G2 phase arrest. Economical reutilization of protein coding sequences in this manner is without precedent in mammalian genomes, and the unitary inheritance of INK4a-p16 and ARF-p19 may reflect a dual requirement for both proteins in cell cycle control.

The present invention provides molecular constructs and methods for use thereof, including constructs including heterologous miRNA recognition sites, constructs for gene suppression including a gene suppression element embedded within an intron flanked on one or on both sides by non-protein-coding sequence, constructs containing engineered miRNA or miRNA precursors, and constructs for suppression of production of mature microRNA in a cell. Also provided are transgenic plant cells, plants, and seeds containing such constructs, and methods for their use. The invention further provides transgenic plant cells, plants, and seeds containing recombinant DNA for the ligand-controlled expression of a target sequence, which may be endogenous or exogenous. Also disclosed are novel miRNAs and miRNA precursors from crop plants including maize and soy.

Proteins having activity that promotes STAT6 activation, which are used for diagnosing, treating or preventing diseases associated with the excessive activation or inhibition of STAT6 are provided. Using a STAT6 response reporter plasmid, cDNA encoding a protein capable of promoting STAT6 activation was cloned from the cDNA library constructed from human lung fibroblasts, and the DNA sequence and the deduced amino acid sequence are determined. The protein, the DNA encoding the protein, a recombinant vector containing the DNA, and a transformant containing the recombinant vector are useful for screening a substance inhibiting or promoting STAT6 activation.

The invention discloses a thermo-sensitive male fertility gene and an application thereof and also discloses a genetic marker of the thermo-sensitive male fertility gene, and provides a protein coded by the thermo-sensitive male fertility gene and a carrier containing the thermo-sensitive male fertility gene and a recombinant microorganism. The invention also discloses the application of the thermo-sensitive male fertility gene in cultivating a thermo-sensitive male sterile line and an application of the genetic marker in rice breeding. The thermo-sensitive fertility gene TSSNR is acquired through the map-based cloning technique of Annong S-1 thermo-sensitive sterility gene locus tms5, functions of the gene are validated through transgene experiments, and the transgene technique of RNAi or antisense RNA or the over-expression dominant negative principle is provided, functions of the TSSRZ gene in normal rice varieties are incapable, so as to cultivate the thermo-sensitive male sterile line, and the application value is significant.

The present invention relates to methods of optimization of a protein coding sequences for expression in a given host cell. The methods apply genetic algorithms to optimise single codon fitness and / or codon pair fitness sequences coding for a predetermined amino acid sequence. In the algorithm generation of new sequence variants and subsequent selection of fitter variants is reiterated until the variant coding sequences reach a minimum value for single codon fitness and / or codon pair fitness. The invention also relates to a computer comprising a processor and memory, the processor being arranged to read from and write into the memory, the memory comprising data and instructions arranged to provide the processor with the capacity to perform the genetic algorithms for optimisation of single codon fitness and / or codon pair fitness. The invention further relates to nucleic acids comprising a coding sequence for a predetermined amino acid sequence, the coding sequence being optimised with respect to single codon fitness and / or codon pair fitness for a given host in the methods of the invention, to host cells comprising such nucleic acids and to methods for producing polypeptides and other fermentation products in which these host cells are used.

The invention is directed to seed and seed extract compositions containing levels of a human milk protein between 3-40% or higher of the total protein weight of the soluble protein extractable from the seed. Also disclosed is a method of producing the seed with high levels of extractable human milk protein. The method includes transforming a monocotyledonous plant with a chimeric gene having a protein-coding sequence encoding a protein normally present in human milk under the control of a seed maturation-specific promoter. The method may further includes a leader DNA sequence encoding a monocot seed-specific transit sequence capable to target a linked milk protein to a storage body.

The present invention provides a protein having low-substrate-specific amino acid racemase activity; DNA encoding the protein; a recombinant DNA comprising the DNA; a transformant carrying the recombinant DNA; a process for producing the protein by using the transformant; and a process for producing a racemic amino acid which comprises allowing a culture of the transformant or a treated matter thereof as an enzyme source and an amino acid to be present in an aqueous medium to racemize the amino acid in the aqueous medium, and recovering the racemic amino acid from the aqueous medium.

The present invention relates to a therapeutic method using RNAi directed at BRAF, of which the point mutation, especially V599E, occurs frequently in melanomas. RNAi specific for the mutated BRAF will provide a specific therapeutic intervention for cancers such as malignant melanoma. Several target sequences for RNAi were selected in the protein coding region of the BRAF mRNA. The short hairpin RNA expression cassette was constructed on the lentiviral vector. One recombinant viral vector for the mutated BRAF V599E and two other vectors sites for wild type BRAF were constructed to infect various malignant melanoma cell lines, and the effects on the growth inhibition and the signaling of MAPK pathway were examined. The inhibitory effect on the invasion ability of malignant melanoma cell line and in vivo growth of a malignant melanoma cell line were examined.

The invention provides a variant human SLC20A2 gene and discloses that the variant human SLC20A2 gene is idiopathic basal ganglia calcification disease-causing gene. By utilizing the variant human SLC20A2 gene, diagnosis and risk evaluation can be carried out on idiopathic basal ganglia calcification disease. The invention also provides a protein coded by the variant human SLC20A2 gene, and the protein can be taken as a drug target for treating basal ganglia calcification. Besides, the invention also provides a kit used for diagnosing the idiopathic basal ganglia calcification disease and an application of the variant human SLC20A2 gene in preparation of a human idiopathic basal ganglia calcification disease gene diagnosis chip.

The invention discloses a bacterial laccase mutant protein, which is characterized in that the mutant protein amino acid sequence is obtained by deletion mutation of the 323rd glycine residue to the 332rd glycine residue in the bacterial laccase amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.1. Through a genetic engineering reconstruction method, a stability improved bacterial laccase protein coding gene, its expression plasmid and engineered bacteria can be obtained, and after large-scale fermentation and induced expression of the engineered bacteria, the stability improved bacterial laccase protein can be obtained. According to the invention, the marine uncultured microorganism source bacterial laccase Lac15 is taken as the foundation, and by means of genetic engineering reconstruction, mutant gene can be obtained. At the same time, a recombinant escherichia coli is employed to conduct high-density culture for high-efficiency expression of the bacterial laccase mutant protein. According to the invention, the stability and yield of the bacterial laccase are greatly improved.

The invention discloses a cry1Ia gene and application thereof, a Cry1Ia protein coded by cry1Ia gene, and a preparation method and application thereof. The nucleotide sequence of the cry1Ia gene is disclosed as SEQ ID NO.1. The preparation method of the Cry1Ia protein coded by the cry1Ia gene comprises the following steps: carrying out PCR (polymerase chain reaction) amplification by using primers disclosed as SEQ ID NO.3 and SEQ ID NO.4, connecting with a vector to obtain a recombinant, transforming into Escherichia coli to obtain a transformant, culturing, collecting the thallus, crushing and taking the Cry1Ia protein. The cry1Ia gen and Cry1Ia protein can be used for controlling parasitic nematodes, have the advantages of high efficiency, low toxicity, environment friendliness and the like, and can effectively reduce pesticide residues.

The present invention is related to a method for identifying a parvovirus mutated structural protein capable of specifically binding to a binder for an antigen, a parvovirus mutated structural protein which comprises at least one B-cell epitope heterologous to the parvovirus, a multimeric structure comprising the protein, a nucleic acid encoding the protein, a virus or cell comprising the protein, a method of preparing the protein, a medicament comprising the protein, nucleic acid or multimeric structure and its use.

The invention discloses a recombinant human collagen and an application thereof. An amino acid sequence of the protein is shown as SEQ ID NO. 3, the nucleotide sequence of the protein-coding gene is shown as SEQ ID NO. 1. The recombinant human collagen of the invention has very good hydrophilicity and stability, and the amino acid composition thereof is 100% identical to the corresponding amino acid sequence of the natural collagen, and the amount of expressed protein can account for about 25% of the total protein of the thalline, per milliliter of the bacteria liquid precipitate contains 0.25mg of the target protein, and the production cost is very low and the cycle is short. The prepared collagen is applied to the human body without immunological rejection and allergic reaction, and canbe widely applied to the biomedicine and cosmetics industries.

The present invention provides DNA molecules that constitute fragments of the genome of a plant, and polypeptides encoded thereby. The DNA molecules are useful for specifying a gene product in cells, either as a promoter or as a protein coding sequence or as an UTR or as a 3′ termination sequence, and are also useful in controlling the behavior of a gene in the chromosome, in controlling the expression of a gene or as tools for genetic mapping, recognizing or isolating identical or related DNA fragments, or identification of a particular individual organism, or for clustering of a group of organisms with a common trait. One of ordinary skill in the art, having this data, can obtain cloned DNA fragments, synthetic DNA fragments or polypeptides constituting desired sequences by recombinant methodology known in the art or described herein.