US Patent Issued to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on May 12 for "Compositions and methods for membrane protein structure determination" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,092, issued on May 12, was assigned to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Compositions and methods for membrane protein structure determination" was invented by Benjamin C. McIlwain (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Randy B. Stockbridge (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for determining the structure of a membrane protein. An epitope from a membrane-proximal external region (MPER) from a viral envelope protein can be grafted on to a variety of diverse membrane proteins to allow for binding structurally characterized antibody fragments, which can aid structura...