Abstract: A process of producing 2-keto-L-gulonic acid from sorbose via a recombinant bacteria including expression vectors and probes for producing said recombinant bacteria.

Abstract: A method of expressing a non-prolactin gene in a transgenic animal, said expression occurring essentially only after birth and essentially only in the pituitary cells of said animal, which comprises (a) operably linking said gene to a prolactin promoter to form a transcriptional unit, and (b) introducing said unit into one or more cells of said animal.

Abstract: A method for producing horseshoe crab amebocytes in vitro by isolating amebocyte producing tissue from the gill flaps of horseshoe crabs, especially Limulus polyphemus. In contrast to all previous attempts to isolate and culture amebocytes from Limulus for the production of pyrogen-sensitive lysate, an effective method and means has been developed utilizing the discovery that the gill flaps are the source of the cells which differentiate into competent amebocytes. Once isolated, the tissue can be cultured long term in vitro on an artificial surface or as part of the gill flap leaflets, opened along one edge to allow access of the media to the developing amebocytes. Amebocytes are removed from the gill flaps by pulsing with Limulus serum, copper sulfate, detergent, or combinations thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the isolation and restoration of biological activity to inactive proteins, that is solubilizing, renaturing and restoring activity to proteins which have been partially denatured or inactivated, e.g. during their synthesis in a host cell, such as E. coli, or during isolation. In particular this invention relates to both a means for extracting insoluble eukaryotic proteins from bacteria and to an efficient process for producing active chymosin from an insoluble chymosin precursor isolated from genetically engineered bacteria.

Abstract: An expression vector replicable in a mammalian cell includes a prepro-NGF encoding DNA sequence operably linked with regulatory DNA capable of effecting the expression of the prepro-NGF encoding DNA sequence in the cell. Also, a mammalian cell is transfected with such an expression vector. Also, a method for making recombinant human nerve growth factor includes transfecting a mammalian cell with such an expression vector, maintaining the cell in a culture medium, and isolating recombinant human nerve growth factor from the medium. Also, a composition includes recombinant human nerve growth factor made according to such a method combined with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a process for release from the cell-receptor complex of positively selected cells in viable, functional condition, where a ligand involved in the particular receptor-ligand interaction utilized for the affinity purification is selectively attacked by one or more degradative enzymes specific for that ligand. A resulting cell suspension can be obtained substantially free of receptor material.This invention, in one embodiment, contemplates a method for positive stem cell selection, utilizing anti-MY10 and immunomagnetic microspheres to isolate CD34-positive marrow cells and employing an enzyme to release micropheres from the isolated CD34-positive cells. Reproducible enzymatic cleaving of immunomagnetic microspheres from MY10-positive cells can be achieved by brief treatment of the preparation with papain or chymopapain. The isolated CD34-positive cells are particularly desirable for bone marrow transplantation.

Abstract: A polypeptide having the following formula is provided: leu-ala-gly-ser-cys-leu-ala-arg-phe-ser-thr-met which can bind heparin and promote cellular adhesion. Medical devices such as prosthetic implants, percutaneous devices and cell culture substrates coated with a composition including the polypeptide are also provided.

Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for the cloning and expression of plasmids bearing genes coding for the non-toxic subunit of the heat-laible enterotoxin (LT-B) of E. coli. These plasmids may be cloned into stable avirulent strains of Salmonella typhi and used to make oral bivalent vaccines. Such vaccines may be used to prevent typhoid fever and cholera-like enterotoxin-induced diarrheal disease.

Abstract: A phosphorus-containing analog-ligand having a stereoconfiguration that substantially corresponds to the stereoconfiguration of an amide- or ester-forming transition state is used to induce production of receptor molecules whose antibody combining sites have stereospecific amide or ester synthase catalytic activity when reacted with a ligand containing (i) a carbonyl carbon atom and (ii) an amine or alcohol group that are structurally capable of forming a preselected stereoisomer of a carboxylic amide or ester.

Abstract: A method to obtain purified, well-defined cell populations from intact organs uses digestion of the distended organ with suitable proteolytic enzymes and harvest of the cell subpopulation by screening the effluent from treatment of the organ with physiologically compatible medium by a filtration screen permitting the passage of the desired cells or clusters of cells, but preventing the passage of larger particles. In this manner, physical/mechanical disruption of the cell population is unnecessary, and the cells or clusters are eased out of their structural matrix and harvested directly. Application of this method to the preparation of purified Islets of Langerhans from intact pancreas is described.

Abstract: Methods for purifying DNA repair enzymes are provided in which an aqueous solution of a DNA repair enzyme in an impure state is applied to a molecular sieve column having an exclusion limit which will retard the DNA repair enzyme but will not retard contaminants larger than the DNA repair enzyme. The DNA repair enzyme in an enhanced state of purity is eluted isocratically from the molecular sieve column in an elution buffer and applied directly to a DNA affinity column in the same buffer without intermediate dialysis, ultrafiltration, or other procedures. The DNA repair enzyme is eluted from the DNA affinity column using, for example, a salt gradient. The method is rapid, inexpensive, simple to perform, and has been found to produce a homogeneous final product. In accordance with other aspects of the invention, the purified DNA repair enzymes are encapsulated in liposomes and administered to living cells in situ.

Abstract: A transgenic animal is constructed in which one or more cells contain a promoter to the gene for cytosolic PEPCK operably linked to a non-PEPCK gene of interest. Expression of this gene is controlled by modifying the protein and carbohydrate components of the animal's diet, or by direct hormonal regulation. The PEPCK promoter is induced by high protein and inhibited by high carbohydrate, or more directly by cAMP and insulin. The linked gene is expressed essentially only after bith and essentially only in particular tissues. The PEPCK promoter has a extremely high promoter strength.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for cloning and producing the NlaIV restriction endonuclease by 1) introducing the restriction endonuclease gene from N. lactamica NRCC 2118 into a host whereby the restriction gene is expressed; 2) fermenting the host which contains the vector encoding and expressing the NlaIV restriction endonuclease, and 3) purifying the NlaIV restriction endonuclease from the fermented host which contains the vector encoding and expressing the NlaIV restriction endonuclease activity.

Abstract: A plasminogen activator precursor obtainable from a serum-free culture fluid of human kidney cells is stabilized by adding to its solution poly-C1-C5-alkylene glycols, polyethylene-polyoxypropylene copolymers, mandelic acid salts, triethanolamine, acid addition salts of acetylglycillysine methyl ester, guanidine salts, thiocyanic acid salts, alkali metal iodides or serine.

Abstract: Process for the preparation of a gastric lipase. The stomachs of rabbits or horses undergo extraction by an acid aqueous medium, the lipase extract is salted out by the addition of hydrosoluble salts then, by filtration on a molecular sieve, followed by separation using ion exchange chromatography, an elution fraction containing the lipase is collected.Medicament for fighting against malabsorptions of fatty substances.

Abstract: A method for synergistically enhancing endothelial cell growth in an appropriate environment therefor which comprises adding to the environment, VEGF, effectors and serum-derived factor. A formulation for synergistically enhancing endothelial cell growth comprising VEGF, uridine, thymidine and serum-derived factor is also disclosed.

Abstract: Tissue cell culture preparations derived from the cells of a transgenic animal are disclosed. These tissue cell preparations are capable of expressing a non-analogous gene product, i.e., a gene product which is not naturally produced by the animal cells.Transhybridomas, i.e., hybridomas and immortalized cells created using cells obtained from transgenic animals, and methods for creating these transhybridomas are also disclosed. In particular, two transhybridomas, A 15.9 and B 6.4, both capable of producing human growth hormone, have been disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to plant cells and dicotyledonous plants transformed with chimeric rat glutathione-S-transferase gene constructs. Transgenic tobacco plants and progeny expressed the chimeric gene constructs under the control of a plant promoter. The transgenic plants and progeny demonstrated resistance to a herbicide which is normally inhibitory to plants not expressing the chimeric construct.

Abstract: This invention relates to the discovery that the prokaryotic enzyme, aminoglycoside 3"-adenyltransferase (AGAT), in particular as encoded by a bacterial aadA gene, is useful as a selectable marker for transformed plants. The enzyme conveys resistance to spectinomycin and streptomycin. Such markers are particularly advantageous because they are non-lethal, provide rapid visual identification of transformed cells and permit selection in media containing either spectinomycin or streptomycin. In addition, AGAT may be used as a selectable marker which differentiates by enabling survival on selective media.