US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Princeton University on Feb. 17 for "Recombinant nucleic acids containing alphaherpesvirus promoter sequences" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,574, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.).

"Recombinant nucleic acids containing alphaherpesvirus promoter sequences" was invented by Esteban Engel (Princeton, N.J.), Carola Maturana (Princeton, N.J.) and Lynn Enquist (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are recombinant nucleic acids (e.g., vectors), and related methods, for expression of a target gene in a host cell. The recombinant nucleic acids comprise a promoter comprising a nucleic acid sequence having at least 70% sequence identity to a sequence selected from SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 3, SEQ ...