Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for determining genotoxicity using non-fluorescent proteins
- Patent Title (中): 使用非荧光蛋白测定遗传毒性的方法
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Application No.: US13578183Application Date: 2011-03-31
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Publication No.: US08729334B2Publication Date: 2014-05-20
- Inventor: Hyon El Choy , Seok-Yong Choi
- Applicant: Hyon El Choy , Seok-Yong Choi
- Applicant Address: KR Gwangju
- Assignee: Industry Foundation of Chonnam National University
- Current Assignee: Industry Foundation of Chonnam National University
- Current Assignee Address: KR Gwangju
- Agency: Clark & Elbing LLP
- Priority: KR10-2010-0029482 20100331
- International Application: PCT/KR2011/002210 WO 20110331
- International Announcement: WO2011/122864 WO 20111006
- Main IPC: A61K49/00
- IPC: A61K49/00 ; C12N15/12

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for determining a genotoxicity of a test substance, comprising the steps of: (a) transforming a fish with a nucleotide sequence encoding a non-fluorescent fluorescence protein with a mutation; (b) treating a test substance to the transformed fish; and (c) measuring a fluorescence in the test substance-treated fish, wherein the fluorescence is generated by reversion of the non-fluorescent fluorescence protein to the fluorescence protein due to a back mutation of the nucleotide sequence in the test substance-treated fish. According to the present invention, MutaFish system, Zebrafish (Brachydanio rerio) line, in which the fluorescence protein variant, preferably wild type EGFP variant (EGFPmut) is transformed, provides a much excellent animal system for measuring a genotoxicity of a test substance via production of a fluorescent fry larvae generated through reversion of the fluorescent protein variant caused by treatment of the test substance. Accordingly, the MutaFish system of the present invention may determine a genotoxicity of a test substance in much more simple and high-throughput manner in an eukaryote to which the conventional methods (e.g., Ames test) may be not applied.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130024955A1 METHOD FOR DETERMINING GENOTOXICITY USING NON-FLUORESCENT PROTEINS Public/Granted day:2013-01-24
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