The invention provides anovel approach for the suppression of endogenous
antibody expression in non-human transgenic animals genetically
engineered to express one or several human or humanized immunoglobulin
transloci. Endogenous immunoglobulin expression in transgenic non-human
animals is suppressed by selective expression of a suicide gene like a
toxin only in B-cells expressing endogenous immunoglobulin but not in
B-cells expressing human(ized) immunoglobulins. This method allows the
dominant expression of transloci coding for humanized or human antibodies
in the blood, milk and eggs of transgenic animals.