US Patent Issued to Nanjing Normal University on Sept. 29 for "Fusion polypeptide and polypeptide dimer, and use thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,275, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Nanjing Normal University (Nanjing, China).

"Fusion polypeptide and polypeptide dimer, and use thereof" was invented by Jian Shen (Nanjing, China) and Jiahong Zhou (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a fusion polypeptide, comprising a carrier protein and a polypeptide of interest, wherein the carrier protein has a plurality of coil domains linked by a ring, the polypeptide of interest is inserted in the ring of the carrier protein, and the carrier protein masks a site of interest on the polypeptide of interest, thereby blocking the accessibility of th...