US Patent Issued to Helix Nanotechnologies on Feb. 17 for "Compositions comprising Alpha-factor prepro sequence and uses thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,551, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Helix Nanotechnologies Inc (Boston).

"Compositions comprising Alpha-factor prepro sequence and uses thereof" was invented by Taylor Gill (Cambridge, Mass.), Kemo Jammeh (Brighton, Mass.) and Nikolai Eroshenko (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an engineered polypeptide comprising (i) a payload polypeptide, and (ii) a wild-type or engineered Alpha-factor prepro sequence, where the wild-type or engineered Alpha-factor prepro sequence is operably linked to the payload polypeptide. Also provided herein are polynucleotides encoding an engineered polypeptide of the present dis...