Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and – Method of introducing a polynucleotide molecule into or... – The polynucleotide contains a tissue – organ – or cell...
Reexamination Certificate
1999-02-16
2001-06-19
Benzion, Gary (Department: 1638)
Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and
Method of introducing a polynucleotide molecule into or...
The polynucleotide contains a tissue, organ, or cell...
C435S320100, C435S410000, C435S419000, C435S468000, C536S023600, C536S024100, C800S298000
Reexamination Certificate
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06248936
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a new plant-based regulon that shows a storage root specific expression pattern.
Plants are often exposed to rapidly changing ambient conditions. This makes it advantageous for plants to be able to resist to quickly changing ambient influences. The adaption to new environment conditions is carried out via a change of expression in all kinds of genes. For example the Sh1-gene from maize is induced under anaerobic conditions. (Rowland et al., Mol. Gen. Genet. 218:33-40 (1989)). The situation for sucrose synthase genes from potato or rice is similar. (Salanoubat et al., Gene 84:181-185 (1989 ) and Wang et al. Plant Mol. Biol. 18:1191-1194 (1992)). A further environmental factor that contributes to an increased expression of sucrose synthase is a lower temperature. (Marana et al., Gene 88:167-172 (1990) and Crespi et al., Plant Physiol. 96:887-891 (1991)). Moreover, a limited supply of carbohydrates causes an increase in transcription of the maize gene Sh1, while under the same conditions the Susl gene is expressed with a reduced expression rate (Maas et al., EMBO J. 9:3447-3452 (1990) and Koch et al, Plant Cell 4:59-69 (1992)). Of wheat and arabidopsis it is moreover known that coldness treatment induces the sucrose synthase genes (Marana et al., Gene 88:167-172 (1990), Crespi et al., Plant Physiol. 96: 887-891 (1991) und Martin et al., Plant J. 4:367-377 (1993)). The maize gene Sh1, the potato's sucrose synthase gene and the wheat gene Ssl show an increased expression under anaerobic conditions (Rowland et al., Mol. Gen. Genet. 218:33-40 (1989), Salanoubat et al., Gene 84:181-185 (1989) and Marana et al., Gene 88:167-172 (1990)). Finally, the maize gene Sh1 is also influenced by an external supply of sucrose (Martin et al. Plant J. 4:367-377 (1993) and Koch et al., Plant Cell 4:59-69 (1992)).
The present invention addresses the technical problem of providing a new regulon which displays an expression pattern that is not yet known from any regulatory elements disclosed in the prior art and that can be advantageously used for the expression of genes under its control.
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Hesse Holger
Hofgen Rainer
Benzion Gary
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften e.v.
Mehta Ashwin
Needle & Rosenberg P.C.
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