US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University on Aug. 5 for "Method for protein nanowire synthesis and tunable control of nanowire length" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,290, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Mich.).

"Method for protein nanowire synthesis and tunable control of nanowire length" was invented by Gemma Reguera (East Lansing, Mich.) and Krista Marie Cosert (Sacramento, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for synthesizing nanowires are provided. Modified PilA peptides are used as peptide building blocks for synthesizing the nanowires. The method places the peptide building blocks in an assembly buffer with a hydrophobe. Addition of a hydrophobe and molecular crowding by evaporation of the assembly buffer triggers the s...