US Patent Issued to Trustees of Dartmouth College on June 30 for "Unglycosylated lysostaphin variant protein" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,787, issued on June 30, was assigned to Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.).

"Unglycosylated lysostaphin variant protein" was invented by Karl E. Griswold (Lyme, N.H.) and Hongliang Zhao (Hanover, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Unglycosylated lysostaphin variant protein, nucleic acid molecule, vector and host cell, as well as a method for production of unglycosylated lysostaphin variant protein in a yeast expression system are provided. The proteins are produced in a Pichia pastoris expression system and have been shown to have activity equivalent to wild-type lysostaphin. The lysostaphin variant proteins can be used a...