US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Aug. 18 for "Methods of identifying protein binding sites on RNA" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,770, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Methods of identifying protein binding sites on RNA" was invented by Eugene Yeo (La Jolla, Calif.) and Meredith Corley (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for identifying an RNA nucleobase that interacts with an RNA binding protein (RBP) including (a) crosslinking the RNA binding protein to an RNA fragment in a biological sample; (b) detecting an RNA-RBP complex, wherein the RNA-RBP complex comprises the RNA fragment bound by the RNA binding protein; (c) isolating the RNA fragment of the RNA-RBP co...