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Plasmid and its use

US4430434A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 7, 1980
Grant dateFeb 7, 1984
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Expiry dateMay 7, 2000

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  • Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
  • CPC primaryC12N15/75
  • WIPO fieldBiotechnology
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Plasmid conferring resistance to streptomycin (Sm.sup.R) and neomycin (Neo.sup.R) upon its host (e.g. a Bacillus, Staphylococcus or Escherichia coli) and which after having taken up a foreign DNA fragment at one of its restriction sites with loss of its Sm.sup.R or Neo.sup.R phenotype, is still capable of replicating and expressing genetic information in its host.

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