MUMBAI, India, March 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202547016794 A) filed by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Tokyo, on Feb. 26, for 'shortened polycystin-1 polypeptide and use thereof.'

Inventor(s) include Nishikawa, Hiroshi; Oguri, Koudai; Mizuguchi, Hiroshi; Hayashi, Yohei; Sakamaki, Wakako; Mineno, Kurumi; and Harada, Takeo.

The application for the patent was published on March 7, under issue no. 10/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure includes: a polynucleotide comprising a sequence encoding shortened polycystin-1 (PC1) having a cyst formation-inhibiting activity, in which the shortened PC1 contains a PC1 C-terminal tail (CTT) domain...