US Patent Issued to INDUSTRY FOUNDATION OF CHONNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY on July 22 for "Method for soluble expression and purification of hydrophobin" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,708, issued on July 22, was assigned to INDUSTRY FOUNDATION OF CHONNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (Gwangju, South Korea).

"Method for soluble expression and purification of hydrophobin" was invented by Geun Joong Kim (Gwangju, South Korea), Dae Eun Cheong (Gwangju, South Korea), Ho-Dong Lim (Jeongeup-si, South Korea), Sang-Oh Ahn (Gwangju, South Korea) and Sung Hwan You (Gwangju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of expressing hydrophobin in a soluble form and a method of purifying hydrophobin, and more particularly, to a method of expressing a recombinant fusion protein including hydrophobin in a soluble form in a host ce...