US Patent Issued to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM on Dec. 16 for "Solid-phase N-terminal peptide capture and release" (Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,379, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Solid-phase N-terminal peptide capture and release" was invented by Eric Anslyn (Austin, Texas), Edward Marcotte (Austin, Texas), Cecil J. Howard II (Austin, Texas), Jagannath Swaminathan (Austin, Texas), Angela M. Bardo (Austin, Texas), Brendan M. Floyd (Austin, Texas) and James Reuther (Lowell, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are rapid and reversible methods to non-specifically immobilize peptides and proteins irrespective of their sequence, as well as small molecules, on a solid support to allow for manip...