ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,898, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY (Nanjing, China).

"Molecular peptide mutant" was invented by Ling Jiang (Nanjing, China), Yao Chen (Nanjing, China), Liying Zhu (Nanjing, China), Wei Liu (Nanjing, China), Xianhan Chen (Nanjing, China) and Xinyi Chen (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a molecular peptide mutant, the amino acid sequence of which is as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1. In the invention, SpyCatcher is designed and modified to obtain a molecular peptide SpyCatcher-21 with stimulus response to pH on the basis of not affecting the formation of isopeptide bonds, and Pr...