US Patent Issued to INSTITUTE OF BIORESOURCES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT on Aug. 4 for "Process for the preparation of an antimicrobial peptide" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,311, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF BIORESOURCES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (India).

"Process for the preparation of an antimicrobial peptide" was invented by Sarangthem Indira Devi (Imphal, India), Ng Ngashangva (Imphal, India) and Pulok Kumar Mukherjee (Imphal, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a process for preparation of a peptide of sequence ID No. 1 having a formula C231H354N66O83 from an endophytic bacterium Paenibacillus peoriae IBSD35 isolated from the stem of Millettia pachycarpa. The genome size of Paenibacillus peoriae IBSD35 is 5.8 Mb, 45.6% GC content. The bioactive p...