US Patent Issued to East China University of Science and Technology on Oct. 7 for "Fluorescent probe for branched chain amino acids and use thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,104, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to East China University of Science and Technology (Shanghai).

"Fluorescent probe for branched chain amino acids and use thereof" was invented by Yi Yang (Shanghai), Yuzheng Zhao (Shanghai), Xie Li (Shanghai), Yejun Zou (Shanghai) and Changcheng Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a fluorescent sensor, comprising a) a responsive polypeptide, and b) an optically active polypeptide, wherein the optically active polypeptide is inserted into the responsive polypeptide. Also provided herein are nucleic acid sequences encoding the fluorescent sensor, expression vectors compri...