US Patent Issued to North Carolina Central University on March 3 for "Methods for the production of cytoprotective asialo-erythropoietin in plants and its purification from plant tissues" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,524, issued on March 3, was assigned to North Carolina Central University (Durham, N.C.).

"Methods for the production of cytoprotective asialo-erythropoietin in plants and its purification from plant tissues" was invented by Jiahua Xie (Cary, N.C.), Farooqahmed S. Kittur (Durham, N.C.) and Chiu-Yueh Hung (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods for the high-level production of recombinant human erythropoietin (rhuEPO) derivative, asialoerythropoietin (asialo-rhuEPO), in plants. The methods for producing asialo-rhuEPO comprise making a plant or at least one plant cell that comprises a promot...