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Article: Research Corporation Technologies Announces Growing Use of Versatile Protein Expression Tool.
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- December 2, 2002
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TUCSON, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 2002
Research Corporation Technologies granted 38 new licenses in 2002 for use of a DNA tool to increase protein expression levels in eukaryotic cells. To date, 78 biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies in the United States, Canada, Japan, Europe and Australia are licensed users of the bovine growth hormone polyadenylation signal sequence (bgh-polyA).
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland discovered the bgh-polyA, a specialized termination sequence that enables a high level of protein expression in mammalian cells. ...