US Patent Issued to CHUGAI SEIYAKU on July 14 for "Protease substrate, and polypeptide including protease cleavage sequence" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,093, issued on July 14, was assigned to CHUGAI SEIYAKU K.K. (Tokyo).

"Protease substrate, and polypeptide including protease cleavage sequence" was invented by Mika Sakurai (Shizuoka, Japan), Tatsuya Kawa (Shizuoka, Japan), Hitoshi Katada (Shizuoka, Japan) and Naoka Hironiwa (Singapore, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to protease substrates, peptide sequences cleavable by a protease, polypeptides comprising a protease cleavage sequence and methods for production thereof, pharmaceutical compositions comprising a polypeptide comprising a protease cleavage sequence, and methods for releasing an antig...