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Q. And did you write down your concept of finding the
poly-A sites and modifying the coding sequence to remove
them?
A. Yes, we did. We wrote this down. Liz Murray wrote
it down in the notebook page and that’s the page I just
referred to. But I also wrote it down in a draft of an
abstract that [sic, I] was preparing for a - the UCLA
symposium talk.
Q. If you will look at Exhibit 125...
A. Okay.
Q. And is this the abstract you’re referring to?
A. Yes, it is.
Q. And what is the date of this draft?
A. If we turn to the third page, the date of this abstract
is November 6th, 1985.
Q. And could you point specifically to where in this
abstract you were referring to?
A. I was referring to, on the second page of the abstract,
where it says, preliminary analysis of RNA indicates
processing at internal sites in the toxin gene. It
appears that for efficient expression of this toxin in
tobacco plants, the coding sequence must be modified
to eliminate premature termination of transcription.
So I’m referring back to this - that we saw this
chopped-up RNA and we knew it was polyadenylated. And
that we knew we needed to solve this problem and modify
the gene to eliminate these sites.
We are somewhat confused by Dr. Adang’s testimony. He
testified in Delaware I that Dr. Murray and he knew that the
chopped-up RNA fragments Dr. Murray reported at her laboratory
notebook page entitled “Bt Northerns,” dated October 22, 1985
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