Patents by Inventor Saul J. Silverstein

Saul J. Silverstein 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).

  • Publication number: 20120156238
    Abstract: A recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid comprising a human herpes simplex virus (HSV) deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) having a heterologous DNA integrated therein wherein the heterologous DNA encodes a polypeptide comprising a RING-finger domain; a recombinant virus comprising such, a viral vaccine and methods of immunization are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Inventors: Saul J. Silverstein, Christos A. Panagiotidis, Christos A. Kyratsous, Matthew S. Walters
  • Patent number: 6809182
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions of matter comprising 29p protein having bound thereto an agent whose delivery into a eukaryotic cell is desired. The present invention also provides a monoclonal antibody which specifically binds to 29p protein. The present invention further provides methods for delivering an agent into a eukaryotic cell, and methods for causing a eukaryotic cell to secrete a desired protein in the form of a fusion protein. The present invention further provides 29p protein-containing pharmaceutical compositions. The present invention still further provides nucleic acid molecules which hybridize to at least a portion of a nucleic acid molecule encoding 29p protein. Finally, the present invention provides methods for detecting the presence of, and quantitatively determining the amount of, a 29p protein-encoding nucleic acid molecule in a sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Saul J. Silverstein, Paula W. Annuziato, Anne A. Gershon, Octavian Lungu
  • Patent number: 6756368
    Abstract: A method of treating a subject infected with a virus or a method of preventing viral infection of a subject comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of a compound having the structure: wherein L=L′=2-methylimidazole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Saul J. Silverstein, Erik K. Lium, Jennifer A. Schwartz
  • Patent number: 6455275
    Abstract: The invention relates to processes for inserting into eucaryotic cells a multiplicity of DNA molecules which includes genes coding for desired proteinaceous materials. The insertion of multiple copies of desired genes is accomplished by cotransformation with the desired genes and with amplifiable genes for a dominant selectable marker in the presence of successively higher amounts of an inhibitor. Alternatively, the insertion of multiple copies of desired genes is accomplished by transformation using DNA molecules formed by ligating a DNA molecule including the desired gene to a DNA molecule which includes an amplifiable gene coding for a dominant selectable phenotype such as a gene associated with resistance to a drug in the presence of successively higher amounts of an agent such as a drug against which the gene confers resistance so that only those eucaryotic cells into which multiple copies of the amplifiable gene have been inserted survive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Richard Axel, Michael H. Wigler, Saul J. Silverstein
  • Publication number: 20010039051
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions of matter comprising 29p protein having bound thereto an agent whose delivery into a eukaryotic cell is desired. The present invention also provides a monoclonal antibody which specifically binds to 29p protein. The present invention further provides methods for delivering an agent into a eukaryotic cell, and methods for causing a eukaryotic cell to secrete a desired protein in the form of a fusion protein. The present invention further provides 29p protein-containing pharmaceutical compositions. The present invention still further provides nucleic acid molecules which hybridize to at least a portion of a nucleic acid molecule encoding 29p protein. Finally, the present invention provides methods for detecting the presence of, and quantitatively determining the amount of, a 29p protein-encoding nucleic acid molecule in a sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2001
    Publication date: November 8, 2001
    Inventors: Saul J. Silverstein, Paula W. Annunziato, Anne A. Gershon, Octavian Lungu
  • Patent number: 5888724
    Abstract: This invention provides a method of detecting a high oncogenic-risk type human papillomavirus in a subject which comprises: obtaining from a subject a specimen containing cervical cells and treating the specimen so as to recover nucleic acid molecules present in the cervical cells; contacting the resulting nucleic acid molecules with multiple pairs of single-stranded labeled oligonucleotide primers capable of specifically hybridizing with a different high oncogenic-risk type of human papillomavirus; amplifying any nucleic acid molecules to which a pair of primers hybridizes so as to obtain a double-stranded amplification product and treating any double-stranded amplification product so as to obtain single-stranded nucleic acid molecules; contacting any resulting single-stranded nucleic acid molecules with multiple single-stranded labeled oligonucleotide probes which are capable of specifically hybridizing with such high oncogenic-risk types of human papillomavirus; contacting any resulting hybrids with a mark
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Saul J. Silverstein, Octavian Lungu, Thomas C. Wright, Ralph M. Richart
  • Patent number: 5814448
    Abstract: This invention provides a method of typing a human papillomavirus in a patient infected by human papillomavirus which comprises: obtaining a sample containing DNA from the human papillomavirus to be typed; amplifying the L1 portion of the human papillomavirus DNA; treating the resulting amplified DNA with a plurality of predetermined restriction enzymes so as to produce restriction fragments; and analyzing the fragments so produces so as to type the human papillomavirus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Saul J. Silverstein, Octavian Lungu, Thomas C. Wright, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5543294
    Abstract: The subject invention provides a method of diagnosing congenital adrenal hyperplasia in a human subject. The subject invention also provides a method of typing a human papillomavirus in a patient infected by a human papillomavirus. The subject invention further provides a method for detecting Mycobacteria in a clinical sample. Finally, the subject invention provides a method for typing Mycobacteria in a clinical sample containing Mycobacteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1996
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Saul J. Silverstein, Octavian Lungu, Thomas C. Wright, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5179017
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for inserting DNA into eucaryotic cells, particularly DNA which includes a gene or genes coding for desired proteinaceous materials for which no selective criteria exist. The insertion of such DNA molecules is accomplished by cotransforming eucaryotic cells with such DNA together with a second DNA which corresponds to a gene coding for a selectable marker.This invention also concerns processes for producing proteinaceous materials such as insulin, interferon protein, growth hormone and the like which involve cotransforming eucaryotic cells with DNA which codes for these proteinaceous materials, growing the cotransformed cells for production of the proteinaceous material and recovering the proteinaceous material so produced.The invention further relates to processes for inserting into eucaryotic cells a multiplicity of DNA molecules which includes genes coding for desired proteinaceous materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1993
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Richard Axel, Michael H. Wigler, Saul J. Silverstein
  • Patent number: 4634665
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for inserting DNA into eucaryotic cells, particularly DNA which includes a gene or genes coding for desired proteinaceous materials for which no selective criteria exist. The insertion of such DNA molecules is accomplished by cotransforming eucaryotic cells with such DNA together with a second DNA which corresponds to a gene coding for a selectable marker.This invention also concerns processes for producing proteinaceous materials such as insulin, interferon protein, growth hormone and the like which involve cotransforming eucaryotic cells with DNA which codes for these proteinaceous materials, growing the contransformed cells for production of the proteinaceous material and recovering the proteinaceous material so produced.The invention further relates to processes for inserting into eucaryotic cells a multiplicity of DNA molecules which includes genes coding for desired proteinaceous materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1987
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Richard Axel, Michael H. Wigler, Saul J. Silverstein
  • Patent number: 4399216
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for inserting DNA into eucaryotic cells, particularly DNA which includes a gene or genes coding for desired proteinaceous materials for which no selective criteria exist. The insertion of such DNA molecules is accomplished by cotransforming eucaryotic cells with such DNA together with a second DNA which corresponds to a gene coding for a selectable marker.The invention further relates to processes for inserting into eucaryotic cells a multiplicity of DNA molecules including genes coding for desired proteinaceous materials by cotransformation with the desired genes and with amplifiable genes for a dominant selectable marker in the presence of successively higher amounts of an inhibitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1983
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University
    Inventors: Richard Axel, Michael H. Wigler, Saul J. Silverstein