US Patent Issued to Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute on May 6 for "Methods and compositions using peptides and proteins with c-terminal elements" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,569, issued on May 6, was assigned to Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (La Jolla, Calif.).

"Methods and compositions using peptides and proteins with c-terminal elements" was invented by Erkki Ruoslahti (La Jolla, Calif.), Tambet Teesalu (La Jolla, Calif.) and Kazuki Sugahara (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are compositions and methods useful for targeting and internalizing molecules into cells of interest and for penetration by molecules of tissues of interest. The compositions and methods are based on peptide sequences that are selectively internalized by a cell, penetrate tissue, or bot...