US Patent Issued to MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE on Oct. 28 for "Hevamine-related plant compositions and methods" (Senegalese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,752, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (Atlanta).

"Hevamine-related plant compositions and methods" was invented by Michael Powell (Douglasville, Ga.) and Erick Vidjin' Agnih Gbodossou (Dakar-Etoile, Senegal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a compositions and methods comprising or expressing a hevamine A-related MoMo30 protein from Momordica balsamina. The MoMo30 protein is about 30 kDa in size, is stable after being autoclaved at 120deg C. for 30 min, resists proteolytic cleavage by trypsin, exhibits mannose-sensitive binding to HIV gp120, exhibits hemagglutinin and chit...