ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,333, issued on June 17, was assigned to TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (Lubbock, Texas) and UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION Inc. (Gainesville, Finland).
"Enhancers of neurolysin activity" was invented by Vardan T. Karamyan (Amarillo, Texas), Paul Trippier (Papillion, Neb.), David A. Ostrov (Gainesville, Fla.), Tom Abbruscato (Amarillo, Texas) and Srinidhi Jayaraman (Amarillo, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes a composition and method of allosterically potentiating the activity of neurolysin comprising contacting the neurolysin with an amount of a histidine-containing dipeptide that is an allo...