ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,088, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to LONZA LTD (Visp, Switzerland).
"Helper factors for expressing proteins in yeast" was invented by Brigitte Gasser (Vienna), Rebecca Gongrich (Graz, Austria), Diethard Mattanovich (Vienna) and Christoph Kiziak (Visp, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing of a protein of interest (POI) in a yeast host cell that is modified to comprise within one or more expression cassettes heterologous nucleic acid molecules encoding helper factors and a gene of interest (GOI) encoding the POI, wherein: a) a first helper factor comprises at least 90% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:1; b...