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    • 6. 发明授权
    • Cell having amplified signal transduction pathway responses and uses therefor
    • 细胞具有扩增的信号转导途径反应和用途
    • US07273747B2
    • 2007-09-25
    • US10267074
    • 2002-10-08
    • John P. ManfrediBenjamin K. BentonMeng-Yu Wu
    • John P. ManfrediBenjamin K. BentonMeng-Yu Wu
    • C12N1/19C12N15/81G01N33/554
    • C12N15/81C07K14/723
    • The invention provides recombinant cells that have been engineered such that ligand stimulation of a receptor expressed by the cells leads to amplified signal transduction responses. In one embodiment, the receptor-expressing cells have been engineered to carry a heterologous DNA construct comprising a gene encoding a protein that activates the signal transduction pathway, which gene is operatively linked to a promoter that is responsive to activation of the signal transduction pathway. Stimulation of the receptor by a ligand leads to expression of the heterologous DNA construct encoding the protein that activates the signal transduction pathway such that signals generated by ligand binding to the receptor are amplified. Preferred cells are yeast cells expressing heterologous G protein coupled receptors functionally coupled to the yeast pheromone response pathway and overexpressing Ste5p, Ste4p, Ste12p, Ste11p or a dominant truncation allele of Ste20 via a pheromone-responsive promoter. The invention further provides cells expressing a heterologous receptor, wherein an endogenous gene encoding a protein that negatively regulates an endogenous signal transduction pathway is mutated to render the protein nonfunctional such that signals generated by ligand binding to the receptor are amplified. The invention further provides cells expressing a heterologous receptor, wherein an endogenous gene encoding a protein that positively regulates an endogenous signal transduction pathway is mutated to a supersensitive form such that the sensitivity of the pathway to ligand stimulation is increases. Methods of using the cells of the invention to identify receptor modulators are also provided.
    • 本发明提供重组细胞,这些细胞已经被改造成使得由细胞表达的受体的配体刺激导致扩增的信号转导反应。 在一个实施方案中,受体表达细胞已被改造以携带包含编码活化信号转导途径的蛋白质的基因的异源DNA构建体,该基因可操作地连接于对信号转导途径的激活有反应的启动子。 通过配体刺激受体导致编码激活信号转导途径的蛋白质的异源DNA构建体的表达,使得通过配体结合受体产生的信号被扩增。 优选的细胞是表达与酵母信息素反应途径功能耦合的异源G蛋白偶联受体的酵母细胞,并且通过信息素反应启动子过表达Ste5p,Ste4p,Ste12p,Ste11p或Ste20的显性截短等位基因。 本发明还提供了表达异源受体的细胞,其中编码负调节内源信号转导途径的蛋白质的内源基因被突变以使蛋白质无功能化,使得通过配体结合受体产生的信号被扩增。 本发明进一步提供表达异源受体的细胞,其中编码将内源性信号转导途径正调节的蛋白质的内源基因突变为超敏感形式,使得该途径对配体刺激的敏感性增加。 还提供了使用本发明的细胞鉴定受体调节剂的方法。