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7550296 Generation of replication competent viruses for therapeutic use  
The present invention relates to the generation of replication-competent viruses having therapeutic utility. The replication-competent viruses of the invention can express proteins useful in the...
7456020 Method for modifying chromosomes  
The present invention provides a simple method for splitting and loss of a chromosome in yeast. The method for modifying a chromosome in yeast includes preparing a linear chromosome splitting...
7393639 Methods for identifying genes and promoters of interest using the Impala transposon  
The invention concerns a new tool for efficient mutagenesis enabling the generation of a collection of mutants in fungi by random insertion of a characterised Fusarium oxysporum Impala transposon...
7338801 Double transposition methods for manipulating nucleic acids  
Methods are provided for manipulating nucleic acid to produce gene fusions, to delete or clone a portion of a chromosome, or to insert a sequence into a chromosome. The methods employ sequential...
7262056 Enhancing intermolecular integration of nucleic acids using integrator complexes  
We disclose compositions and processes for enhancing transposon mediated integration of a nucleic acid molecule into another target nucleic acid molecule. Integration by an integrator complex is...
7169393 Antigenic peptide fragments of VapA protein, and uses thereof  
An isolated peptide fragment of the VapA protein that binds antibodies specific for Rhodococcus equi and the VapA protein. In a preferred form the peptide contains an amino acid sequence of 5 or...
7138279 Transposon-based transformation system  
A transposon-based mutagenesis method for altering DNA in Sorangium and other Myxococcales host cells is provided, along with vectors and transposases for use in the method.
7125662 Method of identifying putative antibiotic resistance genes  
The present invention relates to methods of identifying putative antibiotic resistance genes. According to one embodiment, this is carried out by first isolating a microbial DNA molecule or cDNA...
7101713 DNA transformation efficiency by inhibiting host cell restriction  
It can be difficult to achieve efficient transformation of many strains of bacterial cells due in part to the presence of one or more restriction and modification (R-M) systems in the cells that...
7090994 Methods of screening for introduction of DNA into a target cell  
The present invention provides methods of introducing a polynucleotide into a target cell, wherein the method employs a light generating protein coding sequence acting as a reporter. An important...
7056728 Compositions and methods for use thereof in modifying the genomes of microorganisms  
The present invention relates to bacterial luciferase transposon cassettes suitable for conferring bioluminescence properties on a Gram-positive bacteria, Gram-negative bacteria, and other...
7001893 Inclusion complex of Rifampicin, an anti-tubercular drug, with β-cyclodextrin or 2-hydroxypropyl β-cyclodextrin and a process thereof  
The present invention relates to an inclusion complex of Rifampicin and cyclodextrin (CD) that can be used as an anti-tubercular drug. The present invention also relates to a process for...
6991900 Methods for identifying an essential gene in a prokaryotic microorganism  
Methods are provided for the rapid identification of essential or conditionally essential DNA segments in any species of haploid cell (one copy chromosome per cell) that is capable of being...
6962810 Methods and compositions for transposition using minimal segments of the eukaryotic transformation vector piggyBac  
More efficient transfer of genes into host cells or embryos to transform the cells or embryos is facilitated by transposition vectors using the minimal amount of nucleotide sequences in the...
6943012 Helper dependent adenoviral vector system and methods for using the same  
A helper dependent adenoviral vector system is provided. The subject helper dependent adenoviral vector system is made up of: (1) a “gutless” adenoviral vector that include cis-acting human...
6849429 Viral pseudo-capsids including assembly agonists and antagonists  
Recombinant hepatitis C virus (HCV) capsid proteins that self-assemble into large spherical virus-like particles structures and viral capsids that include conformational antigenic epitopes are...
6841375 Flavobacterium heparinum expression system  
This invention is directed to Flavobacterium heparinum for use as a host cell organism for the expression of homologous and heterologous genes.
6787360 Bacteriophage, a process for the isolation thereof, and a universal growth medium useful in the process thereof  
The present invention provides a isolated bacteriophage useful as a tool for studying biological, biochemical, physiological and genetic properties of actinomycetes and other organisms which...
6664082 Genetically engineered L-sorbose reductase-deficient mutants  
The present invention provides a genetically engineered microorganism belonging to the genus Gluconobacter or Acetobacter, which has an engineered gene for the biological activity of reducing...
6617163 Polynucleotides for mutagenesis in fungus comprising a functional gene in magnaporthe and an impala transposon  
The invention concerns a new tool for efficient mutagenesis enabling the generation of a collection of mutants in fungi by random insertion of a characterized Fusarium oxysporum Impala transposon...
6599705 Regulation of fungal gene expression  
Disclosed herein are methods for regulating fungal gene expression, and reagents for carrying out those methods.
6582951 Method for non-homologous transformation of Yarrowia lipolytica  
The invention concerns the integration of a gene of interest into the genome of a Yarrowia strain devoid of zeta sequences, by transforming said strain using a vector bearing zeta sequences.
6528257 Method for the simultaneous monitoring of individual mutants in mixed populations  
The present invention relates to an improved and efficient method for simultaneous monitoring of abundance of individual mutants of a microbe in mixed populations where insertion of a known...
6518481 Universal markers of transgenesis  
The invention relates to methods, cells and nucleic acids for making transgenic animals. The methods generally comprise introducing into a genome of an animal a genetic construct comprising a...
6504081 Methods and uses for transposon-based gene targeting  
The present invention provides methods which greatly facilitate the rapidity in which cells and transgenic animals with targeted genes may be generated. The invention hastens the investigation of...
6485912 Methods of performing gene trapping in bacterial and bacteriophage-derived artificial chromosomes and use thereof  
A method of efficiently sequencing multiple exons from complex genomic DNAs is disclosed. The methodology includes the use of bacterial and bacteriophage-derived artificial chromosomes (BBPACS) in...
6448034 Production of variant nisin  
The invention provides a method for making a cell which does not contain a natural nisA gene but expresses a variant nisA gene, said method comprising the steps of providing a cell that contains a...
6303381 Insertion sequence  
A novel insertion sequence, which has been found in the sMMO gene coding for methane monooxygenase of methane-assimilating bacterium Methylococcus capsulatus NCIMB 11132 strain, and has inverted...
6221364 Recombinant mycobacteria auxotrophic for diaminopimelate  
The present invention refers in general to novel recombinant mycobacteria that are auxotrophic for diaminopimelate. In particular, this invention relates to novel auxotrophic recombinant...
6207384 Systematic identification of essential genes by in vitro transposon mutagenesis  
The invention features a general system for the identification of essential genes in organisms. This system is applicable to the discovery of novel target genes for antimicrobial compounds, as well...
6197590 Process for integration of a chosen gene on the chromosome of a bacterium obtained by the said process  
The present invention relates to a process for integration of a chosen gene or of a specific DNA sequence in a DNA sequence such as the chromosome or episome of a bacterium, wherein: a) the said...
6159736 Method for making insertional mutations using a Tn5 synaptic complex  
A method for making insertional mutations at random or quasi-random locations in the chromosomal or extra-chromosomal nucleic acid of a target cell includes the step of combining, in the target...
6096549 Method of selection of allelic exchange mutants  
A process for replacing a nucleotide sequence in the genome of a mycobacterium strain comprises the steps of: a) providing a vector containing SacB gene coding for levane saccharase enzyme and a...
5994137 L5 shuttle phasmids  
This invention is directed to L5 shuttle phasmids capable of delivering foreign DNA into mycobacteria and to methods of producing L5 shuttle phasmids. In addition, this invention is directed to a...
5985570 Identification of and cloning a mobile transposon from Aspergillus  
There are provided novel transposable elements isolated from Aspergillus. Also provided are novel fragments comprising the inverted repeat(s) of the transposable elements, such fragments being...
5972700 TM4 conditional shuttle phasmids and uses thereof  
The present invention provides a conditional shuttle phasmid constructed by inserting a cosmid into a non-essential region of the TM4 mycobacteriophage that introduces DNA of interest into...
5958775 Composition and method for targeted integration into cells  
A vector containing a selected nucleic acid sequence interposed between the terminal ends of a Tn7 transposon and a method for site specific integration of genetic material into a chromosome using...
5900362 Luminescent nitrifying microorganisms  
The method of producing luminescent bacteria is based on the transfer of genetic information for biological luminescence to obligate chemolithoautotrophic nitrifying microorganisms. In particular,...
5882888 DNA integration by transposition  
Multicopy strains of gram-positive bacteria carrying multiple copies of a DNA sequence of interest may be constructed by use of a method involving introduction of a DNA construct comprising the DNA...
5869296 DNA transposon Tn5seq1  
A novel transposon useful for sequencing long DNAs is disclosed which comprises a partial sequence of transposon Tn5 with the oligonucleotide primers from phages SP6 and T7 inserted near the...
5837509 Recombinant lactic acid bacterium containing an inserted promoter and method of constructing same  
A method of isolating a lactic acid bacterial DNA fragment comprising a promoter, the method comprising introducing a DNA molecule comprising a transposable element comprising a promoterless...
5804414 Method of amplifying genes using artificial transposons in coryneform bacteria  
A method of amplifying a desired gene in a chromosome of a coryneform bacterium, which comprises forming an artificial transposon in which a drug resistance gene and the desired gene are inserted...
5786162 Fused genes and their use for determining the presence of metals or of xenobiotic compounds  
The invention relates to a fused gene containing: the promoter sequence of (a) gene(s) encoding the resistance to one or several metal(s) or encoding the catabolism of one or several xenobiotic...
5773267 D29 shuttle phasmids and uses thereof  
The present invention provides a conditional shuttle phasmid constructed by inserting a cosmid into a non-essential region of the D29 mycobacteriophage which is capable of introducing DNA of...
5728551 In vitro transposition of artificial transposons for DNA sequencing  
We have developed efficient methods of creating artificial transposons and inserting these transposons into DNA targets in vitro, primarily for the purpose of mapping and sequencing DNA. A target...
5645991 Transposon-containing DNA cloning vector and uses thereof  
The present invention discloses a rapid method of restriction mapping, sequencing or localizing genetic features in a segment of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) that is up to 42 kb in size. The method...
5643771 Non-reverting live bacterial vaccines  
Live vaccines are provided and methods for preparing the live vaccines for protection of a host from a pathogenic microorganism. The vaccines are prepared by introducing at least one modification...
5633154 Method for location of insertion elements  
A method of locating insertion elements (IS elements) or transposons in coryneform bacteria, a positive selection system suitable for the above, the IS elements found in this manner and their use,...
5591577 Mobile genetic element originated from brevibacterium strain  
A DNA fragment which contains a mobile genetic element originated from a strain of the genus Brevibacterium is obtained, and a gene is transferred into the chromosomal DNA of the strain making use...
5516669 Transposon consisting of a fragment of the R plasmid pCxM82B, test vectors containing this transposon, and methods of mutagenesis  
The invention relates to a transposon consisting of a fragment of the R plasmid pCxM82B from Corynebacterium xerosis DSM 5021, to mobilizable, non-self-transferrable vectors which contain this...
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