Rice actin gene and promoter

• US 5,641,876 A
• Filed: 10/27/1993
• Issued: 06/24/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation Incorporated (Cornell University)
• Original Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation Incorporated (Cornell University)
• Inventors: McElroy, David, Wu, Ray
• Primary Examiner(s): Chereskin, Che S.
• Application Number:
  US08/144,602
• Time in Patent Office: 1,336 Days
• Field of Search: 536/24.1, 435/172.3, 435/320.1
• US Class Current: 536/24.1
• CPC Class Codes: C07K 14/415 from plants

Abstract

The present invention describes the genomic nucleotide sequence of, and isolation of a strong intron-dependent promoter for, rice actin genes.

Claims

1. An isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding a promoter region from rice actin 1 gene.

2. A fragment of the nucleic acid molecule of claim 1 wherein said fragment has promoter activity in monocotyledonous plants.

3. An isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding a promoter region from rice actin 1 gene wherein said nucleic acid molecule has a nucleotide sequence as shown in nucleotides 1-2180 of SEQ ID NO:

5.

4. A fragment of the nucleic acid molecule of claim 3, wherein said fragment consists essentially of nucleotides 1-1373 of SEQ ID NO:

6.