Transgenic animals for assessing drug metabolism and toxicity
AssigneeITI Life Sciences
InventorsCharles Roland Wolf, Nico Scheer, Nicole Faust
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Abstract
The present invention relates to transgenic non-human animals, tissues or cells derived therefrom and methods of producing them. The transgenic non-human animals or tissues or cells derived therefrom provide a system capable of expressing human proteins responsible for drug metabolism in place of the homologous endogenous non-human animal proteins and for the controlled expression of human genes introduced into the animal so that the expression of the human genes is regulated in a manner more closely analogous to that seen in vivo in humans.
Claims1
A transgenic mouse, or tissue or cells derived therefrom, whose genome comprises:
- (i) an annulled PXR gene;
- (ii) a DNA sequence encoding a human PXR gene knocked-into the mouse PXR locus, wherein expression of the human PXR gene is under the control of a mouse PXR promoter;
- (iii) an annulled mouse gene equivalent to a human CYP3A4 gene;
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- (iv) a DNA sequence encoding human CYP3A4 operably linked to a human CYP3A4 promoter.
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