US Patent Issued to TOSOH, SAGAMI CHEMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE on April 7 for "Fucose-binding protein, method for producing same, and use of same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,286, issued on April 7, was assigned to TOSOH Corp. (Yamaguchi, Japan) and SAGAMI CHEMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Fucose-binding protein, method for producing same, and use of same" was invented by Masahiro Hayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahiro Maruyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroyuki Ito (Kanagawa, Japan), Aya Asagoshi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kouta Hatayama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Megumi Hoya (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention aims to provide a fucose-binding protein that shows improved productivity in cases of expression in a host such as Escherichia coli, improved binding affinity to a fucose-...