ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,727, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to GYROS PROTEIN TECHNOLOGIES AB (Uppsala, Sweden).
"Traceless reductively cleavable linker molecules for peptide purification" was invented by Robert Zitterbart (Berlin) and Oliver Reimann (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to linker molecules of formula (1), X-Tb-Va-U-Y-Z (1) and a method for purifying peptides using said linker molecules. The linker molecule can be coupled to a purification resin via the moiety X and to a peptide via the moiety Y under the release of the leaving group Z. T is an optional spacer moiety and V is an optional electron withdrawing m...