US Patent Issued to TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY on Sept. 16 for "Method for controlling speed of polypeptide passing through nanopore and use thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,640, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY (Beijing).

"Method for controlling speed of polypeptide passing through nanopore and use thereof" was invented by Jingwei Bai (Beijing) and Zhijie Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for controlling a speed of a polypeptide passing through a nanopore and use thereof in determining an amino acid sequence of a polypeptide. Specifically, the method comprises: conjugating a polynucleotide to the polypeptide to give a polynucleotide-polypeptide conjugate, and applying a voltage across the nanopore in the presence of a polynucleot...