ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,260, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to UNIVERSITETET I TROMSO-NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET (Tromso, Norway).
"Single-strand binding protein" was invented by Marcin Pierechod (Kvaloysletta, Norway), Nils Peder Willassen (Tomasjord, Norway) and Ulli Rothweiler (Tomasjord, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the use of a single-strand DNA binding protein (SSB) which exhibits at least 50% of its maximum ssDNA binding capability in the presence of 500 mM of sodium ions, to dehybridize a DNA molecule or to prevent hybridisation of a complementary ssDNA, wherein the SSB comprises the amino acid sequence of S...