Correcting an immune-response deficiency by creating E alpha gene transgenic mice

Le Meur, M.; Gerlinger, P.; Benoist, C.; Mathis, D.

Nature 316(6023): 38-42

1985


ISSN/ISBN: 0028-0836
PMID: 3925351
Document Number: 243711
We have introduced a cloned Ek alpha gene into embryos of mice incapable of expressing their endogenous E alpha genes. The transcription of Ek alpha was accurate and tissue-specific in the resulting transgenic lines and, in macrophages, Ek alpha transcription could be induced by gamma-interferon. The injected gene conferred on the genetically deficient host strain the ability to mount an immune response to a synthetic polymer.

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