Patents by Inventor Wojtek Steffen

Wojtek Steffen 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: 20240140995
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of determining an analyte in a sample, said method comprising (a) contacting said sample with (i) a binding compound binding to said analyte, said binding compound comprising a binding agent and a first partner of an affinity pair (first affinity partner); and (ii) a second partner of the affinity pair (second affinity partner) coupled to a solid surface, to an indicator, and/or to a second binding agent; and (b) determining said analyte based on complexes formed in step (a); wherein one of said first affinity partner and said second affinity partner is a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 or a sequence at least 50% identical thereto, and wherein the other of said first affinity partner and said second affinity partner is a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2 or a sequence at least 50% identical thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Romina Eisenhauer, Alfred Engel, Ute Jucknischke, Michael Schraeml, Wojtek Steffen
  • Patent number: 11280791
    Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a system and method for the identification and characterization of a transglutaminase. Further, the present disclosure provides transglutaminase enzymes for forming isopeptide bonds, methods of forming isopeptide bonds in the presence of transglutaminases, and substrate tags for use with transglutaminases. In another aspect, the present disclosure provides glutamine-containing substrates (or Q-tag substrates) that are more resistant to proteases/clipping and therefore, more stable, than other Q-tag substrates, and their uses in substrate tags for cross-linking to an amine-donor tag via an isopeptide bond mediated by a microbial transglutaminase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Albert, Frank Bergmann, Victor Lyamichev, Mohamed Yosry Hassan Mohamed, Tobias Oelschlaegel, Jigar Patel, Michael Schraeml, Wojtek Steffen, Thomas Streidl
  • Patent number: 11268120
    Abstract: According to one aspect, the present disclosure provides a method of identifying a substrate of a transglutaminase using a peptide array comprising a plurality of peptides. The method includes the steps of contacting the peptides in the peptide array with the transglutaminase, allowing the transglutaminase to bind to the peptides, and identifying the substrate of the transglutaminase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Albert, Frank Bergmann, Victor Lyamichev, Jigar Patel, Michael Schraeml, Wojtek Steffen
  • Patent number: 11054425
    Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a system and method for the identification and characterization of a transglutaminase. Further, the present disclosure provides transglutaminase enzymes for forming isopeptide bonds, methods of forming isopeptide bonds in the presence of transglutaminases, and substrate tags for use with transglutaminases. In another aspect, the present disclosure provides glutamine-containing substrates (or Q-tag substrates) that are more resistant to proteases/clipping and therefore, more stable, than other Q-tag substrates, and their uses in substrate tags for cross-linking to an amine-donor tag via an isopeptide bond mediated by a microbial transglutaminase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Albert, Frank Bergmann, Victor Lyamichev, Mohamed Yosry Hassan Mohamed, Tobias Oelschlaegel, Jigar Patel, Michael Schraeml, Wojtek Steffen, Thomas Streidl
  • Publication number: 20200371102
    Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a system and method for the identification and characterization of a transglutaminase. Further, the present disclosure provides transglutaminase enzymes for forming isopeptide bonds, methods of forming isopeptide bonds in the presence of transglutaminases, and substrate tags for use with transglutaminases. In another aspect, the present disclosure provides glutamine-containing substrates (or Q-tag substrates) that are more resistant to proteases/clipping and therefore, more stable, than other Q-tag substrates, and their uses in substrate tags for cross-linking to an amine-donor tag via an isopeptide bond mediated by a microbial transglutaminase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas Albert, Frank Bergmann, Victor Lyamichev, Mohamed Yosry Hassan Mohamed, Tobias Oelschlaegel, Jigar Patel, Michael Schraeml, Wojtek Steffen, Thomas Streidl
  • Patent number: 10788495
    Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a system and method for the identification and characterization of a transglutaminase. Further, the present disclosure provides transglutaminase enzymes for forming isopeptide bonds, methods of forming isopeptide bonds in the presence of transglutaminases, and substrate tags for use with transglutaminases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: ROCHE SEQUENCING SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Albert, Frank Bergmann, Victor Lyamichev, Jigar Patel, Michael Schraeml, Wojtek Steffen, Thomas Streidl
  • Publication number: 20200249231
    Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a system and method for the identification and characterization of a transglutaminase. Further, the present disclosure provides transglutaminase enzymes for forming isopeptide bonds, methods of forming isopeptide bonds in the presence of transglutaminases, and substrate tags for use with transglutaminases. In another aspect, the present disclosure provides glutamine-containing substrates (or Q-tag substrates) that are more resistant to proteases/clipping and therefore, more stable, than other Q-tag substrates, and their uses in substrate tags for cross-linking to an amine-donor tag via an isopeptide bond mediated by a microbial transglutaminase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas Albert, Frank Bergmann, Victor Lyamichev, Mohamed Yosry Hassan Mohamed, Tobias Oelschlaegel, Jigar Patel, Michael Schraeml, Wojtek Steffen, Thomas Streidl
  • Publication number: 20190381181
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a recombinant transglutaminase (TG) substrate having an amino acid sequence of the FKBP domain of an FKBP polypeptide, wherein the “insert-in-flap” (IF) domain thereof is, at least in part, replaced by an amino acid sequence (“Q-tag”) of 5 to 20 amino acids with a sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to the YRYRQ portion of the peptide sequence X1-YRYRQ-X2 (SEQ ID NO. 1), and wherein said TG substrate is a substrate for the TG function of the Kutzneria albida TG. The present disclosure furthermore relates to uses of said substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Schraeml, Wojtek Steffen
  • Publication number: 20180252714
    Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a system and method for the identification and characterization of a transglutaminase. Further, the present disclosure provides transglutaminase enzymes for forming isopeptide bonds, methods of forming isopeptide bonds in the presence of transglutaminases, and substrate tags for use with transglutaminases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas Albert, Frank Bergmann, Victor Lyamichev, Jigar Patel, Michael Schraeml, Wojtek Steffen, Thomas Streidl
  • Patent number: 10006915
    Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a system and method for the identification and characterization of a transglutaminase. Further, the present disclosure provides transglutaminase enzymes for forming isopeptide bonds, methods of forming isopeptide bonds in the presence of transglutaminases, and substrate tags for use with transglutaminases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Albert, Frank Bergmann, Victor Lyamichev, Jigar Patel, Michael Schraeml, Wojtek Steffen, Thomas Streidl
  • Publication number: 20170314054
    Abstract: According to one aspect, the present disclosure provides a method of identifying a substrate of a transglutaminase using a peptide array comprising a plurality of peptides. The method includes the steps of contacting the peptides in the peptide array with the transglutaminase, allowing the transglutaminase to bind to the peptides, and identifying the substrate of the transglutaminase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: THOMAS ALBERT, FRANK BERGMANN, VICTOR LYAMICHEV, JIGAR PATEL, MICHAEL SCHRAEML, WOJTEK STEFFEN
  • Publication number: 20160178627
    Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a system and method for the identification and characterization of a transglutaminase. Further, the present disclosure provides transglutaminase enzymes for forming isopeptide bonds, methods of forming isopeptide bonds in the presence of transglutaminases, and substrate tags for use with transglutaminases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Thomas Albert, Frank Bergmann, Victor Lyamichev, Jigar Patel, Michael Schraeml, Wojtek Steffen, Thomas Streidl