US Patent Issued to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION on Nov. 11 for "Polypeptide with enhanced rate of spontaneous isopeptide bond formation with its peptide tag partner and uses thereof" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,861, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Polypeptide with enhanced rate of spontaneous isopeptide bond formation with its peptide tag partner and uses thereof" was invented by Mark Howarth (Oxford, Great Britain) and Anthony Keeble (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a polypeptide that forms one part of a two-part linker in which the polypeptide spontaneously forms an isopeptide bond with a peptide tag, the second part of the two-part linker. Nucleic acid molecules encoding the polypeptide, vectors comprising said nucleic aci...