US Patent Issued to James Cook University on Nov. 11 for "Modified anti-inflammatory proteins and method of use" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,873, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to James Cook University (Townsville, Australia).

"Modified anti-inflammatory proteins and method of use" was invented by Alex Loukas (Townsville, Australia), Andrew Leech (Townsville, Australia) and Darren Pickering (Townsville, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modified Ac-TMP-2 protein lacks one or a plurality of acidic C-terminal amino acids normally present in a full-length or wild-type Ac-TMP-2 protein and may also lack one or a plurality of N-terminal amino acids while retaining the amino acid sequence C-S-C at or near the N-terminus. The modified Ac-TMP-2 protein may be useful in ...