US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on March 31 for "Leveraging lipid-protein interactions to engineer spatial organization in cell-free systems" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,073, issued on March 31, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Leveraging lipid-protein interactions to engineer spatial organization in cell-free systems" was invented by Justin Alexander Peruzzi (Evanston, Ill.), Neha Prashant Kamat (Evanston, Ill.) and Jan Steinkuehler (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for controlling the localization of proteins in lipid structures. The disclosure also provides methods for selecting appropriate proteins for desired localization and distribution in lipid structures based on hydrophobic thickness."

The pate...