NUCLEIC ACID CONSTRUCTS USEFUL FOR GLUCOSE REGULATED PRODUCTION OF HUMAN INSULIN IN SOMATIC CELL LINES

摘要

Unique multifunctional nucleotide expression cassettes comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a human protease driven by a glucose-regulatable promoter, a nucleotide sequence encoding human proinsulin having sites at its B-C and C-A junctions altered to permit cleavage by the human protease, and a CMV promoter driving the transcription of the nucleotide sequence encoding the human proinsulin, such cassettes optionally having polyadenylation sequences after each structural gene and the nucleotide sequence encoding human proinsulin optionally carrying an H10D variant, and cells transformed thereby.