US Patent Issued to The University of Western Australia on Oct. 14 for "Proteins and their use for nucleotide binding" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,770, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The University of Western Australia (Nedlands, Australia).

"Proteins and their use for nucleotide binding" was invented by Aleksandra Filipovska (Stirling, Australia) and Oliver Rackham (Stirling, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of regulating expression of a gene in a cell is described, comprising the step of introducing into the cell a recombinant polypeptide comprising a PPR ssDNA-binding domain which itself comprises at least a pair of PPR ssDNA base-binding motifs. The PPR ssDNA base-binding motifs of the PPR ssDNA-binding domain are operably capable of binding the target ...