US Patent Issued to Washington University on Sept. 30 for "Methods to modulate protein translation efficiency" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,640, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Methods to modulate protein translation efficiency" was invented by Sergej Djuranovic (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods to modulate the level of expression of a protein in a deliberate manner (i.e., tunable regulation of expression) with only a minimal change to the genetic sequence of the gene of interest. The present disclosure therefore also provides compositions and methods to predictably alter protein abundance."

The patent was filed on Aug. 7, 2019, under Application No. 16/534,667. ...