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Method of controlling a cellular process in a multi-cellular organism

US8101823B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Icon Genetics GmbH · DE

Inventors

Stefan Werner · Halle (Saale), DE
Sylvestre Marillonnet · Bodenwerder, DE
Yurii Dorokhov · Moskovskiy, RU
Victor Klimyuk · Leipzig, DE
Yuri Gleba · Berlin, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 20, 2003
Grant date	Jan 24, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 9, 2024

Classification

Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
CPC primaryC12N15/8217
WIPO fieldBiotechnology
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A method of controlling a genetically-modified multi-cellular organism or a part thereof, comprising the following steps: (a) providing a multi-cellular organism or a part thereof, whereby cells of said multi-cellular organism or said part contain a heterologous nucleic acid, (b) causing expression of a I protein from said heterologous nucleic acid in at least some of said cells, wherein said protein is capable of (i) leaving a cell and entering other cells of said multi-cellular organism or a part thereof, (ii) causing expression of said protein in cells containing said heterologous nucleic acid, and optionally (iii) controlling a cellular process of interest.

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