ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,021, issued on April 8, was assigned to Glytech Inc. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Artificial protein catalyst" was invented by Katsunori Tanaka (Niiza, Japan), Kenward Vong (Wako, Japan) and Taiji Shimoda (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Problem] To provide a novel artificial protein catalyst that enables the protection of a catalyst from substances in vivo and has potential usefulness in therapeutic in vivo synthetic chemistry.[Solution] Provided is a complex of a protein and a catalyst selected from a metal catalyst or organic catalyst. In the complex according to the present invention, the protein is a protein having a hydrophobi...