Patents by Inventor Bonnie Bassler
Bonnie Bassler has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9415040Abstract: Methods are provided for identifying molecules that can be used to positively and negatively manipulate quorum-sensing-mediated communication to control bacterial behavior. Small-molecule antagonists that disrupt quorum-sensing-mediated activities are identified. Methods are provided for disrupting detection of acyl-homoserine lactone autoinducer in Gram-negative bacteria by contacting the bacteria with the antagonists. Methods of inhibiting quorum sensing-mediated activity in Gram-negative bacteria are provided wherein the activity is pathogenicity, bioluminescence, siderophore production, type III secretion, or metalloprotease production.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: The Trustees of Princeton UniversityInventors: Bonnie Bassler, Lee Swem
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Publication number: 20150238475Abstract: Methods are provided for identifying molecules that can be used to positively and negatively manipulate quorum-sensing-mediated communication to control bacterial behavior. Small-molecule antagonists that disrupt quorum-sensing-mediated activities are identified. Methods are provided for disrupting detection of acyl-homoserine lactone autoinducer in Gram-negative bacteria by contacting the bacteria with the antagonists. Methods of inhibiting quorum sensing-mediated activity in Gram-negative bacteria are provided wherein the activity is pathogenicity, bioluminescence, siderophore production, type III secretion, or metalloprotease production.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Applicant: THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITYInventors: Bonnie Bassler, Lee Swem
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Patent number: 9045476Abstract: Methods are provided for identifying molecules that can be used to positively and negatively manipulate quorum-sensing-mediated communication to control bacterial behavior. Small-molecule antagonists that disrupt quorum-sensing-mediated activities are identified. Methods are provided for disrupting detection of acyl-homoserine lactone autoinducer in Gram-negative bacteria by contacting the bacteria with the antagonists. Methods of inhibiting quorum sensing-mediated activity in Gram-negative bacteria are provided wherein the activity is pathogenicity, bioluminescence, siderophore production, type III secretion, or metalloprotease production.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2013Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: The Trustees of Princeton UniversityInventors: Bonnie Bassler, Lee Swem
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Publication number: 20140100242Abstract: Methods are provided for identifying molecules that can be used to positively and negatively manipulate quorum-sensing-mediated communication to control bacterial behavior. Small-molecule antagonists that disrupt quorum-sensing-mediated activities are identified. Methods are provided for disrupting detection of acyl-homoserine lactone autoinducer in Gram-negative bacteria by contacting the bacteria with the antagonists. Methods of inhibiting quorum sensing-mediated activity in Gram-negative bacteria are provided wherein the activity is pathogenicity, bioluminescence, siderophore production, type III secretion, or metalloprotease production.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2013Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITYInventors: Bonnie Bassler, Lee Swem
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Patent number: 8568756Abstract: Methods are provided for identifying molecules that can be used to positively and negatively manipulate quorum-sensing-mediated communication to control bacterial behavior. Small-molecule antagonists that disrupt quorum-sensing-mediated activities are identified. Methods are provided for disrupting detection of acyl-homoserine lactone autoinducer in Gram-negative bacteria by contacting the bacteria with the antagonists. Methods of inhibiting quorum sensing-mediated activity in Gram-negative bacteria are provided wherein the activity is pathogenicity, bioluminescence, siderophore production, type III secretion, or metalloprotease production.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2009Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: The Trustees of Princeton UniversityInventors: Bonnie Bassler, Lee Swem
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Patent number: 8535689Abstract: A bacterial autoinducer, CAI-1, was purified and its structure identified. Methods for synthesis of the autoinducer and its analogues were elucidated. Methods of using the autoinducer or its analogues for treating bacterial pathogenicity and bio film formation are described. Methods for prevention and treatment of cholera are described. Synthetic (S)-3-hydroxytridecan-4-one functions as well as natural CAI-1 in repressing production of the virulence factor toxin co-regulated pilus (TCP). Strategies are described to manipulate bacterial quorum sensing in the clinical arena.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2008Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: The Trustees of Princeton UniversityInventors: Bonnie Bassler, Martin Semmelhack, Douglas A. Higgins, Megan Eileen Bolitho, Kristina M. Kraml, Wai-Leung Ng
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Publication number: 20110123586Abstract: Methods are provided for identifying molecules that can be used to positively and negatively manipulate quorum-sensing-mediated communication to control bacterial behavior. Small-molecule antagonists that disrupt quorum-sensing-mediated activities are identified. Methods are provided for disrupting detection of acyl-homoserine lactone autoinducer in Gram-negative bacteria by contacting the bacteria with the antagonists. Methods of inhibiting quorum sensing-mediated activity in Gram-negative bacteria are provided wherein the activity is pathogenicity, bioluminescence, siderophore production, type III secretion, or metalloprotease production.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2009Publication date: May 26, 2011Inventors: Bonnie Bassler, Lee Swem
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Publication number: 20070185314Abstract: A crystal comprising LuxP is obtained, and a binding site for autoinducer-2 (AI-2) identified. The X-ray crystallographic data for LuxP and a LuxP-AI-2 complex is determined and used in a drug discovery method. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising ligands identified by such drug discovery methods are used to treat bacterial infections.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2007Publication date: August 9, 2007Inventors: Bonnie Bassler, Stephan Schauder, Xin Chen, Frederick Hughson, Stephen Cooper
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Publication number: 20070141578Abstract: The invention relates to the identification and isolation of a novel sigma 54 (?54) transcription factor from Vibrio harveyi. The invention further relates to the identification of ?54 interactions with LuxO. More particularly, the invention provides methods for identifying compounds that regulate bacterial cell growth and virulence by regulating LuxO-?54 activities.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2004Publication date: June 21, 2007Inventors: Bonnie Bassler, Brendan Lilley
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Publication number: 20060269951Abstract: The present invention relates to the discovery of the lsr operon, the genes therein, and the polypeptides encoded by these genes. The present invention also includes strains with altered expression levels of the polypeptides encoded by the genes and the lsr operon relative to wild type cells. In some embodiments, the strains express a transporter that transports an autoinducer into the cell at a level higher than that of wild type cells. The present invention also includes methods for identifying compounds that modulate the transport of the autoinducer into cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2006Publication date: November 30, 2006Inventors: Michiko Taga, Bonnie Bassler, Douglas McKenzie
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Publication number: 20060229259Abstract: This invention relates to crystals comprising apo-LsrB and holo-LsrB. The structure of holo-LsrB identifies a tetrahydroxytetrahydrofuran derived from 4,5-dihydroxy-2,3-pentanedione (DPD) as the active autoinducer-2 (AI-2) molecule in Salmonella typhimurium. The X-ray crystallographic data can be used in a drug discovery method. Additionally the invention provides AI-2 analogs based on this discovery as well as pharmaceutical compositions containing those analogs.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2005Publication date: October 12, 2006Inventors: Stephen Miller, Karina Xavier, Mlchiko Taga, Shawn Campagna, Martin Semmelhack, Bonnie Bassler, Frederick Hughson
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Publication number: 20060063721Abstract: This invention relates to crystals comprising apo-LsrB and holo-LsrB. The structure of holo-LsrB identifies a tetrahydroxytetrahydrofuran derived from 4,5-dihydroxy-2,3-pentanedione (DPD) as the active autoinducer-2 (AI-2) molecule in Salmonella typhimurium. The X-ray crystallographic data can be used in a drug discovery method. Additionally the invention provides AI-2 analogs based on this discovery as well as pharmaceutical compositions containing those analogs.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2005Publication date: March 23, 2006Inventors: Stephen Miller, Karina Xavier, Michiko Taga, Shawn Campagna, Martin Semmelhack, Bonnie Bassler, Frederick Hughson
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Publication number: 20060057607Abstract: Quorum-sensing bacteria communicate with extracellular signal molecules called autoinducers to allow community-wide synchronization of gene expression. The present invention relates to the identification the Vibrio harveyi and Vibrio cholerae protein Hfq as mediating interactions between small, regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) and specific messenger RNA (mRNA) targets. Accordingly, the present invention provides nucleic acids encoding the Vibrio sRNAs, strains having various deletions and mutations of one or more qrr genes encoding these sRNA as well as methods of identifying quorum-sensing regulators. Additionally, the invention relates to an isolated V. harveyi Hfq protein and conservative amino acid substitutions thereof as well as nucleic acids encoding those proteins, recombinant methods of producing those proteins and antibodies against those proteins.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2005Publication date: March 16, 2006Inventors: Derrick Lenz, Kenny Mok, Ned Wingreen, Bonnie Bassler
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Patent number: 5985644Abstract: Three genes involved in the catabolism of chitin in Vibrio furnissii: endI encodes periplasmic chitodextrinase, exoI encodes periplasmic .beta.-N-acetylglucosaminidase, and exoII encodes aryl .beta.-N-acetylglucosaminidase are provided. The complete nucleotide sequence for each of the three genes and the complete amino acid for the corresponding enzymes are demonstrated along with host cells capable of expressing the recombinant enzymes. The present invention also describes four specific strains of V. furnissii having deletions in genes involved in the catabolic pathway of chitin and a process for the production of chitin oligosaccharides.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 1996Date of Patent: November 16, 1999Assignee: The Johns Hopkins UniversityInventors: Saul Roseman, Bonnie Bassler, Nemat O. Keyhani, Edith Chitlaru, Charles Yu
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Patent number: 5792647Abstract: The present invention reveals the cloning of four genes involved in the catabolism of chitin in Vibrio furnissii: endI encodes periplasmic chitodextrinase, exoI encodes periplasmic .beta.-N-acetylglucosaminidase, exoII encodes aryl .beta.-N-acetyl-glucosaminidase and chiA encodes extracellular chitinase. The complete nucleotide sequence for each of the four genes and the complete amino acid for the corresponding enzymes are demonstrated along with host cells capable of expressing the recombinant enzymes. The present invention also describes four specific strains of V. furnissii having deletions in genes involved in the catabolic pathway of chitin and a process for the production of chitin oligosaccharides.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 1995Date of Patent: August 11, 1998Assignee: The Johns Hopkins UniversityInventors: Saul Roseman, Bonnie Bassler, Nemat O. Keyhani, Edith Chitlaru, Chris Rowe, Charles Yu