Patents by Inventor Manfred Gossen
Manfred Gossen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20140249207Abstract: The present invention is related to a nucleic acid molecule comprising a double-stranded structure, whereby the double-stranded structure comprises a first strand and a second strand, whereby the first strand comprises a first stretch of contiguous nucleotides and said first stretch is at least partially complementary to a target nucleic acid, and whereby the second strand comprises a second stretch of contiguous nucleotides and said second stretch is at least partially complementary to the first stretch, whereby the first stretch comprises a nucleic acid sequence which is at least complementary to a nucleotide core sequence of the nucleic acid sequence according to SEQ ID NO: 1, whereby the nucleotide core sequence comprises the nucleotide sequence from nucleotide positions 1755 to 1763 of SEQ ID NO: 1; from nucleotide positions 1904 to 1912 of SEQ ID NO: 1; from nucleotide positions 1905 to 1913 of SEQ ID NO: 1; from nucleotide positions 2548 to 2556 of SEQ ID NO: 1; whereby the first stretch is additionallType: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2014Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: Silence Therapeutics GMBHInventors: MANFRED GOSSEN, ANSGAR SANTEL, JORG KAUFMANN
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Patent number: 8722875Abstract: The present invention is related to a nucleic acid molecule comprising a double-stranded structure, whereby the double-stranded structure comprises a first strand and a second strand, whereby the first strand comprises a first stretch of contiguous nucleotides and said first stretch is at least partially complementary to a target nucleic acid, and whereby the second strand comprises a second stretch of contiguous nucleotides and said second stretch is at least partially complementary to the first stretch, whereby the first stretch comprises a nucleic acid sequence which is at least complementary to a nucleotide core sequence of the nucleic acid sequence according to SEQ ID NO: 1, whereby the nucleotide core sequence comprises the nucleotide sequence from nucleotide positions 1755 to 1763 of SEQ ID NO: 1; from nucleotide positions 1904 to 1912 of SEQ.ID.No.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2009Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Silence Therapeutics GmbHInventors: Manfred Gossen, Ansgar Santel, Jorg Kaufmann
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Publication number: 20110217367Abstract: The present invention is related to a nucleic acid molecule comprising a double-stranded structure, whereby the double-stranded structure comprises a first strand and a second strand, whereby the first strand comprises a first stretch of contiguous nucleotides and said first stretch is at least partially complementary to a target nucleic acid, and whereby the second strand comprises a second stretch of contiguous nucleotides and said second stretch is at least partially complementary to the first stretch, whereby the first stretch comprises a nucleic acid sequence which is at least complementary to a nucleotide core sequence of the nucleic acid sequence according to SEQ ID NO: 1, whereby the nucleotide core sequence comprises the nucleotide sequence from nucleotide positions 1755 to 1763 of SEQ ID NO: 1; from nucleotide positions 1904 to 1912 of SEQ. ID. No.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2009Publication date: September 8, 2011Applicant: SILENCE THERAPEUTICS AGInventors: Manfred Gossen, Ansgar Santel, Jorg Kaufmann
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Patent number: 6914124Abstract: A method for regulating expression of a tet operator-linked gene in a cell of a subject is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method involves introducing into the cell a nucleic acid molecule encoding a tetracycline-controllable transactivator (tTA), the tTA comprising a Tet repressor operably linked to a polypeptide which directly or indirectly activates transcription in eucaryotic cells; and modulating the concentration of a tetracycline, or analogue thereof, in the subject. Alternatively, in another embodiment, the method involves obtaining the cell from the subject, introducing into the cell a first nucleic acid molecule which operatively links a gene to at least one tet operator sequence, introducing into the cell a second nucleic acid molecule encoding a tTA, to form a modified cell, administering the modified cell to the subject, and modulating the concentration of a tetracycline, or analogue thereof, in the subject. The first and second nucleic acid molecule can be within a single molecule (e.g.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2001Date of Patent: July 5, 2005Assignee: TET Systems Holding GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Hermann Bujard, Manfred Gossen
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Patent number: 6783756Abstract: A method for regulating expression of a tet operator-linked gene in a cell of a subject is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method involves introducing into the cell a nucleic acid molecule encoding a tetracycline-controllable transactivator (tTA), the tTA comprising a Tet repressor operably linked to a polypeptide which directly or indirectly activates transcription in eucaryotic cells; and modulating the concentration of a tetracycline, or analogue thereof, in the subject. Alternatively, in another embodiment, the method involves obtaining the cell from the subject, introducing into the cell a first nucleic acid molecule which operatively links a gene to at least one tet operator sequence, introducing into the cell a second nucleic acid molecule encoding a tTA, to form a modified cell, administering the modified cell to the subject, and modulating the concentration of a tetracycline, or analogue thereof, in the subject. The first and second nucleic acid molecule can be within a single molecule (e.g.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1999Date of Patent: August 31, 2004Assignee: Abbott GmbH & Co., KGInventors: Hermann Bujard, Manfred Gossen, Jochen G. Salfeld, Jeffrey W. Voss
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Publication number: 20040003417Abstract: Transgenic animals carrying a transgene comprising a nucleic acid molecule encoding protein useful for regulating the expression of genes in eukaryotic cells and organisms in a highly controlled manner are disclosed. In the regulatory system of the invention, transcription of a tet operator-linked nucleotide sequence is inhibited by a transcriptional inhibitor fuision protein composed of two polypeptides, a first polypeptide which binds to tet operator sequences and a second polypeptide which directly or indirectly inhibits transcription in eukaryotic cells. In various embodiment, the first polypeptide binds to tet operator sequences either: (i) in the absence but not the presence of tetracycline (or an analogue thereof) or (ii) in the presence but not the absence of tetracycline (or an analogue thereof). In a preferred embodiment, the transgene encoding the transcriptional inhibitor fusion protein is integrated at a predetermined location within the chromosome of the transgenic animal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 1999Publication date: January 1, 2004Inventors: HERMANN BUJARD, MANFRED GOSSEN
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Publication number: 20030049842Abstract: Transcriptional activators which differ in their activation potential by more than 3 orders of magnitude are provided. The transactivators are fusions between a DNA binding protein (e.g., a Tet repressor) and minimal transcriptional activation domains derived from Herpes simplex virus protein 16 (VP16). Substitution mutations at amino acid position 442 within the minimal VP16 domain provide transactivators with differing transactivation ability. Moreover, chimeric activation domains comprising both wild type and mutant minimal VP16 domains provide additional variants with differing transactivation ability. Various aspects of the invention pertain to nucleic acid molecules, vectors, host cells, fusion proteins, transgenic and homologous recombinant organisms and methods of regulating gene transcription.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2001Publication date: March 13, 2003Applicant: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Udo Baron, Manfred Gossen, Hermann Bujard
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Publication number: 20030022315Abstract: Methods of regulating gene expression in subjects using tetracycline-responsive fusion proteins are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method involves introducing into a cell the subject a nucleic acid molecule encoding a fusion protein which inhibits transcription, the fusion protein comprising a first polypeptide which binds to a tet operator sequence, operatively linked to a heterologous second polypeptide which inhibits transcription in eukaryotic cells; and modulating the concentration of a tetracycline, or analogue thereof, in the subject. The first polypeptide can binds to a tet operator sequence in the absence, but not the presence, of tetracycline. Alternatively, the first polypeptide can binds to a tet operator sequence in the presence, but not the absence, of tetracycline.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2001Publication date: January 30, 2003Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft and Knoll AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hermann Bujard, Manfred Gossen
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Publication number: 20020152487Abstract: Transgenic animals carrying two transgenes, the first coding for a transactivator fusion protein comprising a tet repressor and a polypeptide which directly or indirectly activates in eucaryotic cells, and the second comprising a gene operably linked to a minimal promotor operably linked to at least one tet operator sequence, are disclosed. Isolated DNA molecules (e.g., targeting vectors) for integrating a polynucleotide sequence encoding a transactivator of the invention at a predetermined location within a second target DNA molecule by homologous recombination are also disclosed. Transgenic animals having the DNA molecules of the invention integrated at a predetermined location in a chromosome by homologous recombination are also encompassed by the invention. Methods to regulate the expression of a tet operator linked-gene of interest by administering tetracycline or a tetracycline analogue to an animal of the invention are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2001Publication date: October 17, 2002Applicant: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hermann Bujard, Manfred Gossen, Jochen G. Salfeld, Jeffrey W. Voss
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Publication number: 20020152489Abstract: Transgenic animals carrying a transgene comprising a nucleic acid molecule encoding protein useful for regulating the expression of genes in eukaryotic cells and organisms in a highly controlled manner are disclosed. In the regulatory system of the invention, transcription of a tet operator-linked nucleotide sequence is stimulated by a transcriptional activator fusion protein composed of two polypeptides, a first polypeptide which binds to tet operator sequences in the presence of tetracycline operatively linked to a second polypeptide activates transcription in eukaryotic cells. In a preferred embodiment, the transgene encoding the transcriptional activator fusion protein is integrated at a predetermined location within the chromosome of the transgenic animal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2001Publication date: October 17, 2002Applicant: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hermann Bujard, Manfred Gossen
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Publication number: 20020086426Abstract: A method for regulating expression of a tet operator-linked gene in a cell of a subject is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method involves introducing into the cell a nucleic acid molecule encoding a tetracycline-controllable transactivator (tTA), the tTA comprising a Tet repressor operably linked to a polypeptide which directly or indirectly activates transcription in eucaryotic cells; and modulating the concentration of a tetracycline, or analogue thereof, in the subject. Alternatively, in another embodiment, the method involves obtaining the cell from the subject, introducing into the cell a first nucleic acid molecule which operatively links a gene to at least one tet operator sequence, introducing into the cell a second nucleic acid molecule encoding a tTA, to form a modified cell, administering the modified cell to the subject, and modulating the concentration of a tetracycline, or analogue thereof, in the subject. The first and second nucleic acid molecule can be within a single molecule (e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Applicant: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hermann Bujard, Manfred Gossen, Jochen G. Salfeld, Jeffrey W. Voss
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Publication number: 20020077307Abstract: A method for regulating expression of a tet operator-linked gene in a cell of a subject is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method involves introducing into the cell a nucleic acid molecule encoding a tetracycline-controllable transactivator (tTA), the tTA comprising a Tet repressor operably linked to a polypeptide which directly or indirectly activates transcription in eucaryotic cells; and modulating the concentration of a tetracycline, or analogue thereof, in the subject. Alternatively, in another embodiment, the method involves obtaining the cell from the subject, introducing into the cell a first nucleic acid molecule which operatively links a gene to at least one tet operator sequence, introducing into the cell a second nucleic acid molecule encoding a tTA, to form a modified cell, administering the modified cell to the subject, and modulating the concentration of a tetracycline, or analogue thereof, in the subject. The first and second nucleic acid molecule can be within a single molecule (e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 1999Publication date: June 20, 2002Inventors: HERMANN BUJARD, MANFRED GOSSEN, JOCHEN G. SALFELD, JEFFREY W. VOSS
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Patent number: 6271348Abstract: Methods of regulating gene expression in subjects using tetracycline-responsive fusion proteins are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method involves introducing into a cell the subject a nucleic acid molecule encoding a fusion protein which inhibits transcription, the fusion protein comprising a first polypeptide which binds to a tet operator sequence, operatively linked to a heterologous second polypeptide which inhibits transcription in eukaryotic cells; and modulating the concentration of a tetracycline, or analogue thereof, in the subject. The first polypeptide can binds to a tet operator sequence in the absence, but not the presence, of tetracycline. Alternatively, the first polypeptide can binds to a tet operator sequence in the presence, but not the absence, of tetracycline.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2000Date of Patent: August 7, 2001Assignees: BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Knoll AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hermann Bujard, Manfred Gossen
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Patent number: 6271341Abstract: Transcriptional activators which differ in their activation potential by more than 3 orders of magnitude are provided. The transactivators are fusions between a DNA binding protein (e.g., a Tet repressor) and minimal transcriptional activation domains derived from Herpes simplex virus protein 16 (VP16). Substitution mutations at amino acid position 442 within the minimal VP16 domain provide transactivators with differing transactivation ability. Moreover, chimeric activation domains comprising both wild type and mutant minimal VP16 domains provide additional variants with differing transactivation ability. Various aspects of the invention pertain to nucleic acid molecules, vectors, host cells, fusion proteins, transgenic and homologous recombinant organisms and methods of regulating gene transcription.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2000Date of Patent: August 7, 2001Assignees: BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Udo BaronInventors: Udo Baron, Manfred Gossen, Hermann Bujard
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Patent number: 6252136Abstract: Transgenic animals carrying two transgenes, the first coding for a transactivator fusion protein comprising a tet repressor and a polypeptide which directly or indirectly activates in eucaryotic cells, and the second comprising a gene operably linked to a minimal promoter operably linked to at least one tet operator sequence, are disclosed. Isolated DNA molecules (e.g., targeting vectors) for integrating a polynucleotide sequence encoding a transactivator of the invention at a predetermined location within a second target DNA molecule by homologous recombination are also disclosed. Transgenic animals having the DNA molecules of the invention integrated at a predetermined location in a chromosome by homologous recombination are also encompassed by the invention. Methods to regulate the expression of a tet operator linked-gene of interest by administering tetracycline or a tetracycline analogue to an animal of the invention are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1998Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignees: BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Knoll AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hermann Bujard, Manfred Gossen, Jochen G. Salfeld, Jeffrey W. Voss
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Patent number: 6242667Abstract: Transgenic animals carrying a transgene comprising a nucleic acid molecule encoding protein useful for regulating the expression of genes in eukaryotic cells and organisms in a highly controlled manner are disclosed. In the regulatory system of the invention, transcription of a tet operator-linked nucleotide sequence is stimulated by a transcriptional activator fusion protein composed of two polypeptides, a first polypeptide which binds to tet operator sequences in the presence of tetracycline operatively linked to a second polypeptide activates transcription in eukaryotic cells. In a preferred embodiment, the transgene encoding the transcriptional activator fusion protein is integrated at a predetermined location within the chromosome of the transgenic animal.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 1998Date of Patent: June 5, 2001Assignees: BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Knoll AktiengesekkscgaftInventors: Hermann Bujard, Manfred Gossen
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Patent number: 6136954Abstract: Methods of regulating gene expression in subjects using tetracycline-responsive fusion proteins are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method involves introducing into a cell the subject a nucleic acid molecule encoding a fusion protein which inhibits transcription, the fusion protein comprising a first polypeptide which binds to a tet operator sequence, operatively linked to a heterologous second polypeptide which inhibits transcription in eukaryotic cells; and modulating the concentration of a tetracycline, or analogue thereof, in the subject. The first polypeptide can binds to a tet operator sequence in the absence, but not the presence, of tetracycline. Alternatively, the first polypeptide can binds to a tet operator sequence in the presence, but not the absence, of tetracycline.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 1998Date of Patent: October 24, 2000Assignees: BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Knoll AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hermann Bujard, Manfred Gossen
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Patent number: 6087166Abstract: Transcriptional activators which differ in their activation potential by more than 3 orders of magnitude are provided. The transactivators are fusions between a DNA binding protein (e.g., a Tet repressor) and minimal transcriptional activation domains derived from Herpes simplex virus protein 16 (VP16). Substitution mutations at amino acid position 442 within the minimal VP16 domain provide transactivators with differing transactivation ability. Moreover, chimeric activation domains comprising both wild type and mutant minimal VP16 domains provide additional variants with differing transactivation ability. Various aspects of the invention pertain to nucleic acid molecules, vectors, host cells, fusion proteins, transgenic and homologous recombinant organisms and methods of regulating gene transcription.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 1997Date of Patent: July 11, 2000Assignees: BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Udo BaronInventors: Udo Baron, Manfred Gossen, Hermann Bujard
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Patent number: 6004941Abstract: Methods of regulating gene expression in subjects using tetracycline-responsive fusion proteins are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method involves introducing into a cell the subject a nucleic acid molecule encoding a fusion protein which activates transcription, the fusion protein comprising a first polypeptide which binds to a tet operator sequence in the presence of tetracycline or a tetracycline analogue operatively linked to a second polypeptide which activates transcription in eukaryotic cells; and modulating the concentration of a tetracycline, or analogue thereof, in the subject. In another embodiment, the cell further comprises a fusion protein which inhibits transcription, the fusion protein comprising a first polypeptide which binds to a tet operator sequence, operatively linked to a second polypeptide which inhibits transcription in eukaryotic cells.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: December 21, 1999Assignees: BASF Aktiengesellschaft, BASF Bioresearch Corporation, Knoll AktiengelellschaftInventors: Hermann Bujard, Manfred Gossen
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Patent number: 5922927Abstract: Transgenic mice carrying two transgenes, the first coding for a transactivator fusion protein comprising a tet repressor and a polypeptide which directly or indirectly activates in eucaryotic cells, and the second comprising a gene operably linked to a minimal promoter operably linked to at least one tet operator sequence, are disclosed. Isolated DNA molecules (e.g., targeting vectors) for integrating a polynucleotide sequence encoding a transactivator of the invention at a predetermined location within a second target DNA molecule by homologous recombination are also disclosed. Transgenic mice having the DNA molecules of the invention integrated at a predetermined location in a chromosome by homologous recombination are also encompassed by the invention. Methods to regulate the expression of a tet operator linked-gene of interest by administering tetracycline or a tetracycline analogue to a mouse of the invention are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1997Date of Patent: July 13, 1999Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hermann Bujard, Manfred Gossen, Jochen G. Salfeld, Jeffrey W. Voss