US Patent Issued to XLIFESC on June 9 for "T cell receptor for recognizing SSX2 antigen short peptide" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,773, issued on June 9, was assigned to XLIFESC LTD. (Zhuhai, China).

"T cell receptor for recognizing SSX2 antigen short peptide" was invented by Yi Li (Guangdong, China), Jing Hu (Guangdong, China) and Hanli Sun (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a T cell receptor (TCR) capable of specifically binding a short peptide KASEKIFYV (SEQ ID NO:9) derived from an SSX2 antigen. The antigen short peptide KASEKIFYV (SEQ ID NO:9) can form a complex with HLA A0201 and be presented together to a cell surface. The present invention further provides a nucleic acid molecule encoding the TCR and a vector c...