US Patent Issued to Engineered Antigens on May 13 for "SLAM polynucleotides and polypeptides and uses thereof" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,000, issued on May 13, was assigned to Engineered Antigens Inc. (Calgary, Canada).

"SLAM polynucleotides and polypeptides and uses thereof" was invented by Trevor F. Moraes (Toronto), Christine Chieh-Lin Lai (Toronto), Yogesh Hooda (Toronto), Andrew Judd (Mississauga, Canada), Anthony B. Schryvers (Calgary, Canada) and Scott D. Gray-Owen (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel methods for exporting target proteins from the cytosol to the extracellular surface of bacterial cells are provided. The methods are useful in that they permit the preparation of vaccines for the prevention of bacterial infectious diseases."

The...