Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Margaret Connor
  • Ubiquitin-lytic peptide gene promoter
    Patent number: 6448391
    Abstract: Stabilized ubiquitin-lytic peptide fusion polypeptides and a method of making the same by sub-cloning nucleic acid sequences coding for lytic peptides into a plasmid vector comprising a promoter and ubiquitin polypeptide coding sequence, wherein the ubiquitin polypeptide sequence is linked to the 5′ end of the lytic peptide nucleic acid sequence and is translated as a fusion polypeptide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignees: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture, Demegen, Inc.
    Inventors: Joan Garbarino, William Belknap