US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on June 17 for "Fungal autoinducible expression system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,302, issued on June 17, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Fungal autoinducible expression system" was invented by Amin Zargar (Emeryville, Calif.), Jenny Landberg (Berkeley, Calif.) and Jay D. Keasling (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides for a system comprising: (a) a first nucleic acid encoding an Alpha-factor receptor operatively linked to a first promoter, (b) a second nucleic acid encoding a recombinase operatively linked to a promoter which is activated by an Alpha-factor receptor bound to an Alpha-factor, and (c) a third nucleic acid encod...