US Patent Issued to King Abdullah University of Science and Technology on March 24 for "Sliding clamp-based affinity purification systems, methods of making and use thereof" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,886, issued on March 24, was assigned to King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

"Sliding clamp-based affinity purification systems, methods of making and use thereof" was invented by Vlad-Stefan Raducanu (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Tehseen (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Fahad Rashid (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Samir M. Hamdan (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are affinity purification system that includes a carrier/surface that is non-cellular, and sliding clamp (SC) protein, and methods for purifying proteins that bind to the SC. The SC is associated with the carrier/sur...