US Patent Issued to CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER on Feb. 10 for "Method for identifying ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like enzyme activities" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,780, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris) and UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER (Montpellier, France).

"Method for identifying ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like enzyme activities" was invented by Guillaume Bossis (Montpellier, France), Pierre Gatel (Chambray-les-Tours, France) and Marc Piechaczyk (Saint Gely du Fesc, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for quantifying the activity of the proteins/enzymes involved in the conjugation of the SUMO/Ubiquitin/Nedd8 proteins in a cell of a biological sample the method including: a) a step of contacting a cellular extract of cell with each pro...