US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY on July 22 for "Tunable nanoscale cages from self-assembling DNA and protein building blocks" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,889, issued on July 22, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Tunable nanoscale cages from self-assembling DNA and protein building blocks" was invented by Nicholas Stephanopoulos (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Yang Xu (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are polyhedral, three-dimensional tunable nanocages assembled with a multimeric protein covalently linked to a polynucleotide handle and a DNA origami base assembly including sequences complementary to the polynucleotide handles, wherein the polynucleotide handle and the complementary sequences hybri...