US Patent Issued to Institute of Science Tokyo on April 14 for "Protein crystal production method and crystalline structure analysis method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,999, issued on April 14, was assigned to Institute of Science Tokyo (Tokyo).

"Protein crystal production method and crystalline structure analysis method" was invented by Takafumi Ueno (Tokyo), Satoshi Abe (Tokyo) and Mariko Kojima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A production method for a crystal of a crystalline protein, the method including a step of inducing expression of a crystalline protein in Escherichia coli into which an expression construct of the crystalline protein has been introduced, and incubating the Escherichia coli for a predetermined time until a crystal of the crystalline protein is formed inside the Escher...