US Patent Issued to TOEI SHINYAKU on Sept. 15 for "Method for detecting and quantifying beta-1,6-branched beta-1,3-glucan or beta-1,3-glucan, and kit for detecting and quantifying the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,534, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TOEI SHINYAKU Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Method for detecting and quantifying beta-1,6-branched beta-1,3-glucan or beta-1,3-glucan, and kit for detecting and quantifying the same" was invented by Daisuke Yamanaka (Tokyo) and Yoshiyuki Adachi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a first step, when a Beta-1,6-branched Beta-1,3-glucan is contained in a test specimen, an active reporter protein comprising one and the other of split reporter proteins is formed by binding the Beta-1,6-branched Beta-1,3-glucan to a first fusion protein and a second fusion protein, and when a Beta-1,3-glucan is contained...