Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and – Nonhuman animal – Transgenic nonhuman animal
Reexamination Certificate
2004-09-29
2010-10-05
Crouch, Deborah (Department: 1632)
Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and
Nonhuman animal
Transgenic nonhuman animal
C800S024000, C800S007000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07807862
ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to a method of producing a protein of interest, comprising making a non-human transgenic mammal that produces said protein in its milk, obtaining said milk from the non-human transgenic mammal and purifying said protein of interest from the milk. Transgenic bovine animals were generated, which are able to produce human growth hormone in mammary glands. The method involves cloning of a genetic construct encoding hGH gene and beta casein promoter conveniently in an expression vector. It also includes transfection procedures into fetal bovine somatic cells, generally fibroblasts, and the nuclear transfer into enucleated bovine oocytes, generating thus transgenic embryos. The method also includes other procedures to generate transgenic embryos for the further expansion of the transgenic herd, such as the subcloning of transgenic female bovines, the superovulation of transgenic cows and their insemination with semen from a non-transgenic or a transgenic male bovine, and the superovulation of non-transgenic cows and their insemination with semen from a transgenic male bovine. Afterwards, transgenic embryos give rise to transgenic cattle that produce human growth hormone in huge amounts in their milk, from which the hormone is completely purified and analysed to fulfill all the requirements for the manufacture of a pure biopharmaceutical product.
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Knoril, E. and Greep, R.O
Baranao Lino
Melo Carlos Alberto
Crouch Deborah
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
Sterrenbeld Biotechnologie North America, Inc.
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