US Patent Issued to Agency for Science, Technology and Research on June 24 for "Peptides and compounds that bind to elongation initiation factor 4E" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,296, issued on June 24, was assigned to Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore).

"Peptides and compounds that bind to elongation initiation factor 4E" was invented by Simon Ng (Singapore) and Christopher John Brown (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peptide that binds to elongation initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) comprising the amino acid sequence CEX1GX2X3X4X5C (SEQ ID NO: 1), where X1 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of threonine (T), methionine (M) or leucine (L), X2 and X3 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of phenylalanine (F), modified phenylalanine and tyrosine (Y), X4 ...