US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY on April 21 for "Method for purifying protein derived from membrane protein complex" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,807, issued on April 21, was assigned to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD. (Kobe, Japan) and TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan).

"Method for purifying protein derived from membrane protein complex" was invented by Haruhiko Yamaguchi (Kobe, Japan), Yukino Inoue (Kobe, Japan), Seiji Takahashi (Sendai, Japan) and Toru Nakayama (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure aims to provide a method which, even when a protein complex is formed, can purify a protein derived from such a membrane protein complex by eluting the membrane protein complex maintaining its complex form. The present disclosure relates to a metho...