US Patent Issued to Hubei University on Sept. 23 for "Argonaute proteins from prokaryotes and applications thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,527, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Hubei University (Wuhan, China).

"Argonaute proteins from prokaryotes and applications thereof" was invented by Lixin Ma (Wuhan, China), Yaping Wang (Wuhan, China), Yang Liu (Wuhan, China) and Xiaoman Jiang (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Argonaute proteins from prokaryotes (pAgos) and applications thereof are provided, the pAgo is from a mesophilic prokaryote of Kurthia massiliensis and named as KmAgo, the pAgos and applications thereof are capable of site-specific modification of intracellular and extracellular genetic material, and thus can be effectively applied to many field...