GENE SET EXPRESSION INCLUDING sORF CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS FOR IMMUNOGLOBULIN EXPRESSION Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC C12N15/63 C12P21/08 C07H21/04 C07K16/18 C12N1/18 C12N5/07 C12N5/10 

FIELD: medicine, pharmaceutics.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to biotechnology, more specifically to expression constructs, and may be used for immunoglobulin expression. An expression vector contains one open reading frame (sORF) insert which contains a first sequence of nucleic acid coding a first polypeptide; a first intermediate sequence of nucleic acid coding a first protein cleavage site containing an autoprocessing element with an intein segment providing proteolytic sORF polypeptide cleavage between the first polypeptide and the intein segment and the second polypeptide, but not ligation of said first polypeptide with said second polypeptide; and a second sequence of nucleic acid coding the second polypeptide. The expression vector is able to express a mammalian polypeptide coding sORF and cleaved in said first protein cleavage site in a host cell; consisting of the first polypeptide - an immunoglobulin heavy chain, and the second polypeptide - an immunoglobulin light chain able to be assembled into a multimer.

EFFECT: invention provides functional antibody production with 'correct' setup and assembly.

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