US Patent Issued to CORNELL UNIVERSITY on Feb. 10 for "Keratinolytic polypeptides and methods of use" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,743, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Keratinolytic polypeptides and methods of use" was invented by Xingen Lei (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Madeleine Keefe (Trumansburg, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate to a recombinant nucleic acid construct comprising a nucleic acid molecule encoding a polypeptide having at least 90% sequence identity with the amino acid sequence, or fragment thereof, of SEQ ID NO:2; SEQ ID NO:4; SEQ ID NO: 6; SEQ ID NO:8; SEQ ID NO: 10; SEQ ID NO: 12; SEQ ID NO: 14; or SEQ ID NO: 16, as well as keratin-degrading compositions, methods of recombinan...