US Patent Issued to The Governing Council of the University of Toronto on Dec. 9 for "Methods and kits for identifying a protein associated with receptor-ligand interactions" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,044, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to The Governing Council of the University of Toronto (Toronto).

"Methods and kits for identifying a protein associated with receptor-ligand interactions" was invented by Mikko Taipale (Toronto), Jason Moffat (Toronto) and Hunsang Lee (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying a protein associated with a receptor-ligand interaction is described. The method comprises providing a population of engineered cells comprising a targeting library targeting specific gene expression, contacting the population of cells with a recombinant toxin fusion for sufficient time, and identifying p...