US Patent Issued to MVRIX on Nov. 4 for "Tag protein for increasing water solubility and heat stability of target protein, and fusion protein comprising same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,978, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MVRIX Co. Ltd. (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

"Tag protein for increasing water solubility and heat stability of target protein, and fusion protein comprising same" was invented by Dae-Hyuk Kweon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yun-Jeong Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ki-Jun Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea) and Yoon-Jin Bae (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a fusion protein in which a target protein and an Oct-1 protein-containing protein tag are linked, an expression structure comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding same, a recombinant vector including ...