Insulator element having enhancer-blocking properties
OwnerJohn C. Herr, P. Prabhakara Reddiinventors
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Abstract
The present invention relates to nucleic acid sequences that have insulator activity and the use of such sequences to prevent position effects on gene constructs transfected into cells. In one embodiment as shown in FIGS. 5A and 5B a vector is provided with a polylinker site (a) for insertion of a gene, wherein the polylinker site is flanked by one or more insulators (b). This insulator blocks enhancer effects on genes located downstream from the enhancer when the insulator is positioned between the enhancer and the gene.
Claims16
An isolated or purified nucleic acid sequence comprising an insulator sequence wherein said insulator sequence consists essentially of a nucleic acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:
- 1, SEQ ID NO:
- 2, SEQ ID NO:
- 3, SEQ ID NO:
- 4, SEQ ID NO:
- 7, and SEQ ID NO:
- 8.
A nucleic acid construct comprising an insulator element operably linked to a polylinker, wherein said insulator element consists of SEQ ID NO:
- 1, SEQ ID NO:
- 2, SEQ ID NO:
- 3, SEQ ID NO:
- 4, SEQ ID NO:
- 5, SEQ ID NO:
- 6, SEQ ID NO:
- 7, or SEQ ID NO:
- 8.
A nucleic acid construct comprising two or more insulator elements operably linked to a polylinker, wherein said insulator elements are linked to one another in tandem repeats and each insulator element consists of a nucleic acid sequence independently selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:
- 1, SEQ ID NO:
- 2, SEQ ID NO:
- 3, SEQ ID NO:
- 4, SEQ ID NO:
- 5, SEQ ID NO:
- 6, SEQ ID NO:
- 7, and SEQ ID NO:
- 8.
A nucleic acid sequence of 400 nucleotides or less that hybridizes to a 50 nucleotide fragment of SEQ ID NO:
- 1 or SEQ ID NO:
- 2 under stringent conditions.
A method of decreasing the influence of adjacent sequences on the expression of a gene after insertion of said gene into a cell's DNA, said method comprising the step of operably linking an insulator element upstream of the promoter of said gene prior to introducing the gene into the cell.
A transgenic host cell comprising a nucleic acid construct, wherein said construct comprises an insulator sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:
- 1, SEQ ID NO:
- 2, SEQ ID NO:
- 3, SEQ ID NO:
- 4, SEQ ID NO:
- 5, SEQ ID NO:
- 6, SEQ ID NO:
- 7, and SEQ ID NO:
- 8 operably linked to a recombinant gene.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.