US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on May 20 for "Protein glycosylation sites by rapid expression and characterization of N-glycosyltransferases" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,211, issued on May 20, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Protein glycosylation sites by rapid expression and characterization of N-glycosyltransferases" was invented by Michael Christopher Jewett (Evanston, Ill.), Weston K. Kightlinger (Evanston, Ill.), Liang Lin (Evanston, Ill.) and Milan Mrksich (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are components, systems, and methods for glycoprotein or recombinant glycoprotein protein synthesis in vitro and in vivo. In particular, the present invention relates to components, systems, and methods for identifying amino acid glycosylation tag motifs for N...