US Patent Issued to TORAY INDUSTRIES on Nov. 3 for "Nucleic acid construct" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,221, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).

"Nucleic acid construct" was invented by Atsuki Tsuruya (Kamakura, Japan) and Hiroyuki Kurihara (Kamakura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The continuous culture of a Schizosaccharomyces yeast containing a nucleic acid construct which contains a translationally controlled tumor protein (TCTP) gene promoter derived from a Schizosaccharomyces yeast, and a polynucleotide fragment, and in which the polynucleotide fragment is artificially linked to the downstream of the promoter to be expressed under the control of the promoter, allows the polynucleotide fragment un...