US Patent Issued to University of Florida Research Foundation, University of Miami on June 23 for "Methods and compositions to spread protein cargoes across multi-nucleated cells" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,517, issued on June 23, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.) and University of Miami (Miami).

"Methods and compositions to spread protein cargoes across multi-nucleated cells" was invented by Eric Tzy-shi Wang (Gainesville, Fla.), Keril K. Poukalov (Gainesville, Fla.) and Zane Zeier (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions useful for delivering a protein to a plurality of nuclei in a cell. Fusion proteins comprising one or more signals useful for promoting delivery of the proteins to a plurality of nuclei in a multinucleate cell. Methods comprising administering isol...