US Patent Issued to Nanyang Technological University on June 30 for "Asx-specific protein ligases and uses thereof" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,788, issued on June 30, was assigned to Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"Asx-specific protein ligases and uses thereof" was invented by James P. Tam (Singapore), Julien Lescar (Singapore), Muxinya He (Singapore), Abbas El Sahili (Singapore), Chuan Fa Liu (Singapore) and Side Hu (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention lies in the technical field of enzyme technology and specifically relates to enzymes having Asx-specific ligase and cyclase activity and to nucleic acids encoding those as well as methods of the manufacture of said enzymes. The enzymes having Asx-specific ligase and cyclase are isola...