Multimerized DBH enhancer domains

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2006-05-02

2006-05-02

Ketter, James (Department: 1636)

Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology

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C536S024100

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07037715

ABSTRACT:
The invention features an enhancer cassette having the formula [X-Y]n, wherein each X is independently a noradrenergic cell-specific enhancer derived from a DBH gene; Y is absent or is a mono or polynucleotide that has between one and thirty nucleotides; and n is an integer between three and twenty, inclusive.

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Genbank accession No. X13257.

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