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7611883 Plasmid maintenance  
The invention relates to a system for stable maintenance of a plasmid, to host cells for use in this system and to methods of using the system to obtain a plasmid useful in medical applications. In...
7176029 Cloning and/or sequencing vector  
A cloning and/or sequencing vector enables recombinant clones to be selected directly. The vector encodes a fusion protein which includes a protein poison.
7125720 Plasmid maintenance system for antigen delivery  
The present invention relates generally to a Plasmid Maintenance System for the stabilization of expression plasmids encoding foreign antigens, and methods for making and using the Plasmid...
6977176 Plasmid maintenance system for antigen delivery  
The present invention relates generally to a Plasmid Maintenance System for the stabilization of expression plasmids encoding foreign antigens, and methods for making and using the Plasmid...
6855513 Quorum sensing signaling in bacteria  
The invention provides methods for identifying a modulator of quorum sensing signaling in bacteria, and for identifying a quorum sensing controlled gene in bacteria. In addition, the invention...
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...
6602712 Enterotoxin-deficient bacillus  
A enterotoxin-deficient mutant of a member strain of the Bacillus cereus group does not produce HBL enterotoxin, which has been regarded as a human pathogen found in member strains. An...
6593141 Scorpion toxins  
This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding scorpion toxins that are K-channel modifiers. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or...
6548246 Method and probes for the identification of microbial genes specifically induced during host infection  
The present invention relates to a class of microbial coding sequences the transcription or cotranscription of which is specifically induced during microbial infection of a host. These particular...
6521458 Compositions and methods for improved plant transformation  
The present invention provides methods for eliminating plants containing non-T-DNA sequences derived from a T-DNA vector. More specifically, the present invention provides a method for killing...
6503500 Biocontrol agent containing an endotoxin gene  
The invention provides a biocontrol agent against larvae of mosquitoes and blackflies comprising transgenic Anabaena PCC 7120 carrying a synergistic combination of the endotoxin genes CryIVA and...
6267966 Vaccine production of the Bacillus anthracis protective antigen  
Methods of preparing recombinant Bacillus anthracis protective antigen or a variant or fragment thereof for use in vaccines is disclosed. The protein is expressed in a recombinant microorganism...
6252138 Pathogen-induced plant promoters  
New pathogen-induced promoters are provided, particularly nematode-induced promoters, which are characterized by their selective induction of expression in the vicinity of the pathogen infection...
6239329 Shoot meristem specific promoter sequences  
A novel tissue-specific promoter is provided which has been isolated from the upstream non-coding region of a plant UFO gene. This promoter, operably associated with a nucleic acid sequence...
6207167 Chicken leucocytozoon vaccine  
A vaccine strain OU5758 is provided which includes an attenuated immunogenic plasmidless Salmonella enterica serovar-Typhimurium strain OU5046 harboring a recombinant plasmid pOU1500 for immunizing...
5955332 Nucleic acid sequences and plasmids comprising at least one phage resistance mechanism, bacteria containing them and their use  
The invention relates to polynucleotides of 1345 bp and 3704 bp and the like, which comprise at least one phage resistance mechanism and obtainable from the total DNA contained in the Lactococcus...
5928891 DNA fragment encoding insecticidal crystal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis  
The invention relates to a vector for transforming microorganisms capable of undergoing sporulation and which contains itself a heterologous insert comprising a DNA sequence coding for at least...
5922603 Method for obtaining strains of trichoderma species  
Strains of Trichoderma spp. that are improved in their capacity as biological control agents for phytopathogenic fungi and nematodes are obtained that are able to over-produce a proteinase, with...
5922583 Methods for production of recombinant plasmids  
The invention relates to a culture system for stable and high-level production of DNA contained on recombinant plasmids, and to the bacteria and plasmids which comprise the culture system. The...
5891688 DNA encoding lemA-independent GacA and its use in activating gene expression  
The present invention exploits the discovery that certain single base changes in the gacA gene coding sequence, which result in certain single amino acid changes in the encoded GacA protein, render...
5882653 Vibrio cholerae 01 (CVD111) and non-01 (CVD112 and CVD112RM) serogroup vaccine strains, methods of making same and products thereof  
Avirulent Vibrio cholerae strains of O1 (CVD111) and non-O1 (CVD112 and CVD112RM) serogroups having the DNA of the cholera toxin core and the RS1 sequences of the cholera toxin locus deleted, and...
5840312 Recombinant Bacillus anthracis strains unable to produce the lethal factor protein or edema factor protein  
A recombinant strain of B. anthracis is characterized in that it can induce the production of protective antibodies against virulent strains of B. anthracis in a human or animal host, and...
5840554 β-Endotoxin expression in pseudomonas fluorescens  
Bacillus thuringiensis endotoxin expression in Pseudomonads can be improved by modifying the gene encoding the Bacillus thuringiensis endotoxin. Chimeric genes are created by replacing the segment...
5766904 Phage-resistant streptococcus  
DNA fragment of phages which are virulent towards a Streptococcus, capable of conferring on a Streptococcus containing it resistance to at least one phage, especially a fragment homologous or...
5763247 Nucleotide fragments and uses thereof for obtaining bactericide-producing compositions  
Nucleotide fragments which encode a bacteriocin composition derived from Micrococcus varians and for preparing compositions to obtain the bacteriocin and for obtaining recombinant microorganisms....
5686283 Genomic DNA encoding the pseudomonas fluorescens alternative sigma factor, RpoS, capable of activating gene expression  
Gene activating sequences which activate the expression of other bacterial genes, which are latent or expressed at low levels, are provided. The gene activating sequences confer the ability to...
5686282 DNA encoding the pseudomonas fluorescens sensor/kinase element, lemA, and its use in activating gene expression  
Gene activating sequences which activate the expression of other bacterial genes, which are latent or expressed at low levels, are provided. The gene activating sequences confer the ability to...
5591616 Method for transforming monocotyledons  
A method for transforming a monocotyledon by which the time required from transformation to regeneration of a plant is shorter so that the frequency of emergence of mutants is smaller than the...
5545541 Stabilization of unstably inherited replicons  
The stable maintenance of a replicon in a population of growing cells is ensured by providing the replicon with a sequence which encodes a product capable of killing the cell harboring the replicon...
5538868 Recombinant ricin toxin fragments  
Recombinant vectors and methods for constructing ricin B are disclosed. The coding sequence for ricin B was cloned, disposed in suitable expression vectors and produced free of components normally...
5434065 In vivo selection of microbial virulence genes  
A genetic system termed in vivo expression technology was devised that positively selects for microbial genes that are specifically induced when microbes infect their host. The method of this...
5352594 Selection and method of making enzymes for perhydrolysis system and for altering substrate specificity, specific activity and catalytic efficiency  
The invention relates to methods of making and selecting esterase enzymes having an improved perhydrolysis to hydrolysis ratio, and varying K cat , K m , and K cat /K m and substrate specificity....
5246844 Virulence associated proteins in Borrelia burgdorferi (BB)  
The invention relates to a DNA segment encoding a Borrelia burgdorferi antigenic polypeptide. The invention also relates to a purified 30 kDa polypeptide isolated from a virulent strain of B....
5246839 Secretion plasmid comprising the kilgene  
The present invention provides for a plasmid, pEAP7ΔP, containing a DNA region capable of inducing extracellular secretion of a useful, physiologically active substance in transformed host and a...
5231011 Segregated folding determinants for small disulfide-rich peptides  
The preparation of small peptides with multiple disulfide bonds is accomplished by forming a prepropeptide with an N-terminal excised region separated from the cysteine-rich peptide by one or more...
5175097 Expression and diagnostic use of GAG-1 encoded peptides which are immunologically reactive with antibodies to HIV  
Immunologically reactive gag proteins of LAV/HTLV-III are expressed in bacterial cells. The gag proteins are encoded by a recombinant plasmid containing procaryotic transcriptional and...
5175098 Expression and diagnostic use of gag encoded peptides which are immunologically reactive with antibodies to HIV  
Immunologically reactive gag proteins of LAV are expresesed in bacterial cells. The gag proteins are encoded by a recombinant plasmid containing procaryotic transcriptional and translational...
5166056 Recombinant trichosanthin and coding sequence  
Disclosed are the entire coding sequence for unprocessed and mature trichosanthin from Trichosanthes kirilowii, and primers derived from this coding sequence for use in obtaining the coding...
5164304 Method and vectors for stabilizing hirudin and human laminin B.sub.1 expression  
A method for obtaining heterologous peptides from fusion proteins wherein at least one of the fusion components is connective tissue-activating peptide-III is provided. Hirudin, a laminin B 1 ...
5149638 Tylosin biosynthetic genes tylA, tylB and tylI  
Provided are gene sequences encoding tylosin biosynthetic gene products. In particular, recombinant DNA vectors comprising DNA sequences encoding the tylA, tylB, tylI and tylG activities of...
5137721 Employing strains of E. coli expressing non-indigenous adhesins and toxoids of E. coli  
A vaccine is described for prevention of gastro-enteric disease caused in a mammalian species by a pathogenic microorganism. The vaccine comprises a non-pathogenic microorganism strain containing...
5106735 Cloning of a DNA sequence encoding a Sarcophaga peregrina antibacterial polypeptide precursor  
A cloned single-strand DNA comprising nucleotide sequence which encodes an antibacterial polypeptide precursor, a cloned double-strand DNA consisting of the single-strand DNA and its complementary...
5059530 Expression vector for human TNF  
The present invention provides a vector plasmid capable of efficient tumor necrosis factor (TNF) production, a process capable of efficient TNF production in a host transformed with said plasmid...
5055400 Leukotoxin gene of pasteurella haemolytica  
The gene coding for Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin can be cloned in a plasmic expressed in Escherichia coli. The leukotoxin gene can be isolated from a clone bank of P. haemolytica. The clone...
5043271 DNA encoding rabbit TNE, vector having said DNA inserted thereinto, host transformed with said vector, rabbit TNF polypeptide, and process for production thereof  
A novel cloned DNA encoding a rabbit Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) or a principal portion thereof, a vector having said DNA inserted thereinto, a host transformed with said vector, a novel...
5028530 AraB promoters and method of producing polypeptides, including cecropins, by microbiological techniques  
A polynucleotide molecule expressible in a given host comprising the sequence of the araB promoter operably linked to a gene which is heterologous to said host. The heterologous gene codes for a...
5024837 Coleopteran active microorganisms, related insecticide compositions and methods for their production and use  
This invention relates to Bacillus thuringiensis strains that have insecticidal activity against lepidopteran and coleopteran insects, the coleopteran-active endotoxin being produced by an acquired...
4931390 Expression of the cloned lysostaphin gene  
The present invention provides recombinant plasmids which is transformant microbial hosts express lysostaphin, a bacteriocin that kills most known staphylococcal species. The invention also...
4910136 Cloning and expression of Bacillus thuringiensis toxin gene toxic to beetles of the order Coleoptera  
The toxin gene encoding a protein toxic to beetles of the order Coleoptera, named M-7, has been cloned and expressed. M-7 is a novel Bacillus thuringiensis strain which has been deposited with a...
4879226 Novel human physiologically active polypeptide  
A human physiologically active polypeptide, human Tumor Necrosis Factor (human TNF), comprising a specific amino acid sequence of 155 amino acid residues. The base sequence of the DNA coding for...
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