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Expression of Biologically Active Human Interferon Gamma in the Milk of Transgenic Mice Under the Control of the Murine Whey Acidic Protein Gene Promoter

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Acknowledgments

This study was conducted in the Tubitak, MRC, GEBI. The authors are grateful to Dr. Batu Erman for providing pTZ57R vector containing hIFN-γ. We thank Sakir Sekmen, Gazi Turgut, Arzu Tas, and Erman Ates for excellent technical assistance. This study was funded by Tubitak (SBAG-BULGAR-1-105S001) and Grant No. IDEI-02/30/17.12.09 from Bulgarian National Research for I. Ivanov.

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  1. Medical Faculty, Medical Genetic Department, University of Adiyaman, Adiyaman, Turkey

    Haydar Bagis

  2. Tubitak MRC Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Institute (GEBI), Gebze, Turkey

    Haydar Bagis, Digdem Aktoprakligil, Sezen Arat, Tolga Akkoc, Gaye Cetinkaya & Ali Cihan Taskin

  3. Institute for Molecular Medicine, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

    Cagatay Gunes

  4. Veterinary Faculty, Biochemistry Department, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, Turkey

    Orhan Kankavi

  5. Medical Faculty, Medical Genetic Department, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey

    Korhan Arslan & Munis Dundar

  6. Institute of Molecular Biology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Vania L. Tsoncheva & Ivan G. Ivanov

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Bagis, H., Aktoprakligil, D., Gunes, C. et al. Expression of Biologically Active Human Interferon Gamma in the Milk of Transgenic Mice Under the Control of the Murine Whey Acidic Protein Gene Promoter. Biochem Genet 49, 251–257 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10528-010-9403-7

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