Patents Assigned to AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
  • Patent number: 9856291
    Abstract: A synthetic peptide that targets cancer stem cells is provided. The peptide consists of the amino acid sequence of anyone of SEQ ID NO: 1 to SEQ ID NO: 15. Also provided is a composition comprising said synthetic peptide with a therapeutic agent fused thereto, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or diluent. Further provided is a method of screening a peptide specifically targeting to a cancer stem cell. The method comprises the steps of establishing an oligopeptide library by using a phage expression system, contacting the library with a culture of bulk tumor cells of a cancer cell line, contacting the phages which do not bind to the bulk tumor cells with a culture of cancer stem cells of said cancer cell line, and screening a peptide specifically targeting to a cancer stem cell from the phages which bind to the cancer stem cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chin-Kai Chuang, Yu-Hsyu Su, Tai-Yun Lin
  • Patent number: 9775893
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are anti-Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, especially proteins suitable for being used as the active ingredient of the Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, and a vaccine prepared therefrom. Upon experimenting, it is confirmed that the proteins can elicit an immune response having sufficient strength to avoid the infection of Mycoplasma spp. in pigs. The vaccine can comprise one of the aforementioned proteins as an active ingredient, or can comprise two or more of the proteins to form a form of cocktail vaccine. The vaccine of the present invention is not only more safe than conventional vaccines, but also has equivalent or even better immune effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jiunn-Horng Lin, Jyh-Perng Wang, Ming-Wei Hsieh, Zeng-Weng Chen, Chien-Yu Fang, Hsueh-Tao Liu, Ping-Cheng Yang
  • Patent number: 9757441
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are anti-Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, especially proteins suitable for being used as the active ingredient of the Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, and a vaccine prepared therefrom. Upon experimenting, it is confirmed that the proteins can elicit an immune response having sufficient strength to avoid the infection of Mycoplasma spp. in pigs. The vaccine can comprise one of the aforementioned proteins as an active ingredient, or can comprise two or more of the proteins to form a form of cocktail vaccine. The vaccine of the present invention is not only more safe than conventional vaccines, but also has equivalent or even better immune effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jiunn-Horng Lin, Jyh-Perng Wang, Ming-Wei Hsieh, Zeng-Weng Chen, Chien-Yu Fang, Hsueh-Tao Liu, Ping-Cheng Yang
  • Patent number: 9750790
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are anti-Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, especially proteins suitable for being used as the active ingredient of the Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, and a vaccine prepared therefrom. Upon experimenting, it is confirmed that the proteins can elicit an immune response having sufficient strength to avoid the infection of Mycoplasma spp. in pigs. The vaccine can comprise one of the aforementioned proteins as an active ingredient, or can comprise two or more of the proteins to form a form of cocktail vaccine. The vaccine of the present invention is not only more safe than conventional vaccines, but also has equivalent or even better immune effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jiunn-Horng Lin, Jyh-Perng Wang, Ming-Wei Hsieh, Zeng-Weng Chen, Chien-Yu Fang, Hsueh-Tao Liu, Ping-Cheng Yang
  • Patent number: 9750791
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are anti-Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, especially proteins suitable for being used as the active ingredient of the Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, and a vaccine prepared therefrom. Upon experimenting, it is confirmed that the proteins can elicit an immune response having sufficient strength to avoid the infection of Mycoplasma spp. in pigs. The vaccine can comprise one of the aforementioned proteins as an active ingredient, or can comprise two or more of the proteins to form a form of cocktail vaccine. The vaccine of the present invention is not only more safe than conventional vaccines, but also has equivalent or even better immune effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jiunn-Horng Lin, Jyh-Perng Wang, Ming-Wei Hsieh, Zeng-Weng Chen, Chien-Yu Fang, Hsueh-Tao Liu, Ping-Cheng Yang
  • Patent number: 9750792
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are anti-Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, especially proteins suitable for being used as the active ingredient of the Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, and a vaccine prepared therefrom. Upon experimenting, it is confirmed that the proteins can elicit an immune response having sufficient strength to avoid the infection of Mycoplasma spp. in pigs. The vaccine can comprise one of the aforementioned proteins as an active ingredient, or can comprise two or more of the proteins to form a form of cocktail vaccine. The vaccine of the present invention is not only more safe than conventional vaccines, but also has equivalent or even better immune effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jiunn-Horng Lin, Jyh-Perng Wang, Ming-Wei Hsieh, Zeng-Weng Chen, Chien-Yu Fang, Hsueh-Tao Liu, Ping-Cheng Yang
  • Patent number: 9730990
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are anti-Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, especially proteins suitable for being used as the active ingredient of the Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, and a vaccine prepared therefrom. Upon experimenting, it is confirmed that the proteins can elicit an immune response having sufficient strength to avoid the infection of Mycoplasma spp. in pigs. The vaccine can comprise one of the aforementioned proteins as an active ingredient, or can comprise two or more of the proteins to form a form of cocktail vaccine. The vaccine of the present invention is not only more safe than conventional vaccines, but also has equivalent or even better immune effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jiunn-Horng Lin, Jyh-Perng Wang, Ming-Wei Hsieh, Zeng-Weng Chen, Chien-Yu Fang, Hsueh-Tao Liu, Ping-Cheng Yang
  • Publication number: 20170202942
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are anti-Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, especially proteins suitable for being used as the active ingredient of the Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, and a vaccine prepared therefrom. Upon experimenting, it is confirmed that the proteins can elicit an immune response having sufficient strength to avoid the infection of Mycoplasma spp. in pigs. The vaccine can comprise one of the aforementioned proteins as an active ingredient, or can comprise two or more of the proteins to form a form of cocktail vaccine. The vaccine of the present invention is not only more safe than conventional vaccines, but also has equivalent or even better immune effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Applicant: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jiunn-Horng LIN, Jyh-Perng WANG, Ming-Wei HSIEH, Zeng-Weng CHEN, Chien-Yu FANG, Hsueh-Tao LIU, Ping-Cheng YANG
  • Publication number: 20170196959
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are anti-Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, especially proteins suitable for being used as the active ingredient of the Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, and a vaccine prepared therefrom. Upon experimenting, it is confirmed that the proteins can elicit an immune response having sufficient strength to avoid the infection of Mycoplasma spp. in pigs. The vaccine can comprise one of the aforementioned proteins as an active ingredient, or can comprise two or more of the proteins to form a form of cocktail vaccine. The vaccine of the present invention is not only more safe than conventional vaccines, but also has equivalent or even better immune effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jiunn-Horng LIN, Jyh-Perng WANG, Ming-Wei HSIEH, Zeng-Weng CHEN, Chien-Yu FANG, Hsueh-Tao LIU, Ping-Cheng YANG
  • Publication number: 20170182142
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are anti-Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, especially proteins suitable for being used as the active ingredient of the Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, and a vaccine prepared therefrom. Upon experimenting, it is confirmed that the proteins can elicit an immune response having sufficient strength to avoid the infection of Mycoplasma spp. in pigs. The vaccine can comprise one of the aforementioned proteins as an active ingredient, or can comprise two or more of the proteins to form a form of cocktail vaccine. The vaccine of the present invention is not only more safe than conventional vaccines, but also has equivalent or even better to immune effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jiunn-Horng LIN, Jyh-Perng WANG, Ming-Wei HSIEH, Zeng-Weng CHEN, Chien-Yu FANG, Hsueh-Tao LIU, Ping-Cheng YANG
  • Publication number: 20170182144
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are anti-Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, especially proteins suitable for being used as the active ingredient of the Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, and a vaccine prepared therefrom. Upon experimenting, it is confirmed that the proteins can elicit an immune response having sufficient strength to avoid the infection of Mycoplasma spp. in pigs. The vaccine can comprise one of the aforementioned proteins as an active ingredient, or can comprise two or more of the proteins to form a form of cocktail vaccine. The vaccine of the present invention is not only more safe than conventional vaccines, but also has equivalent or even better immune effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jiunn-Horng LIN, Jyh-Perng WANG, Ming-Wei HSIEH, Zeng-Weng CHEN, Chien-Yu FANG, Hsueh-Tao LIU, Ping-Cheng YANG
  • Publication number: 20170182143
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are anti-Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, especially proteins suitable for being used as the active ingredient of the Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, and a vaccine prepared therefrom. Upon experimenting, it is confirmed that the proteins can elicit an immune response having sufficient strength to avoid the infection of Mycoplasma spp. in pigs. The vaccine can comprise one of the aforementioned proteins as an active ingredient, or can comprise two or more of the proteins to form a form of cocktail vaccine. The vaccine of the present invention is not only more safe than conventional vaccines, but also has equivalent or even better immune effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jiunn-Horng LIN, Jyh-Perng WANG, Ming-Wei HSIEH, Zeng-Weng CHEN, Chien-Yu FANG, Hsueh-Tao LIU, Ping-Cheng YANG
  • Patent number: 9683223
    Abstract: The present invention provides a ?-agarase, a composition containing the same and applications thereof. The present ?-agarase provides the field a novel alternative and is favorable for the industrial utilities of the hydrolysis products of agarose. Furthermore, the hydrolysis product of agarose by the present ?-agarase has high purity of neoagarotetraose therefore the present ?-agarase is especially useful for the neoagarotetraose's utilities in the field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jiunn-Horng Lin, Jyh-Perng Wang, Zeng-Weng Chen, Hui-Jie Lin, Weng-Zeng Huang, Jian-Fong Lai, Shih-Ling Hsuan
  • Publication number: 20170158737
    Abstract: A synthetic peptide that targets cancer stem cells is provided. The peptide consists of the amino acid sequence of anyone of SEQ ID NO: 1 to SEQ ID NO: 15. Also provided is a composition comprising said synthetic peptide with a therapeutic agent fused thereto, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or diluent. Further provided is a method of screening a peptide specifically targeting to a cancer stem cell. The method comprises the steps of establishing an oligopeptide library by using a phage expression system, contacting the library with a culture of bulk tumor cells of a cancer cell line, contacting the phages which do not bind to the bulk tumor cells with a culture of cancer stem cells of said cancer cell line, and screening a peptide specifically targeting to a cancer stem cell from the phages which bind to the cancer stem cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chin-Kai CHUANG, Yu-Hsyu SU, Tai-Yun LIN
  • Publication number: 20170151318
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are anti-Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, especially proteins suitable for being used as the active ingredient of the Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, and a vaccine prepared therefrom. Upon experimenting, it is confirmed that the proteins can elicit an immune response having sufficient strength to avoid the infection of Mycoplasma spp. in pigs. The vaccine can comprise one of the aforementioned proteins as an active ingredient, or can comprise two or more of the proteins to form a form of cocktail vaccine. The vaccine of the present invention is not only more safe than conventional vaccines, but also has equivalent or even better immune effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jiunn-Horng LIN, Jyh-Perng WANG, Ming-Wei HSIEH, Zeng-Weng CHEN, Chien-Yu FANG, Hsueh-Tao LIU, Ping-Cheng YANG
  • Publication number: 20170130217
    Abstract: The present invention provides a ?-agarase, a composition containing the same and applications thereof. The present ?-agarase provides the field a novel alternative and is favorable for the industrial utilities of the hydrolysis products of agarose. Furthermore, the hydrolysis product of agarose by the present ?-agarase has high purity of neoagarotetraose therefore the present ?-agarase is especially useful for the neoagarotetraose's utilities in the field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jiunn-Horng LIN, Jyh-Perng WANG, Zeng-Weng CHEN, Hui-Jie LIN, Weng-Zeng HUANG, Jian-Fong LAI, Shih-Ling HSUAN
  • Patent number: 9561267
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are anti-Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, especially proteins suitable for being used as the active ingredient of the Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, and a vaccine prepared therefrom. Upon experimenting, it is confirmed that the proteins can elicit an immune response having sufficient strength to avoid the infection of Mycoplasma spp. in pigs. The vaccine can comprise one of the aforementioned proteins as an active ingredient, or can comprise two or more of the proteins to form a form of cocktail vaccine. The vaccine of the present invention is not only more safe than conventional vaccines, but also has equivalent or even better immune effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jiunn-Horng Lin, Jyh-Perng Wang, Ming-Wei Hsieh, Zeng-Weng Chen, Chien-Yu Fang, Hsueh-Tao Liu, Ping-Cheng Yang
  • Publication number: 20170002045
    Abstract: The present invention provides a plasmid, method and kit for producing heat labile enterotoxin B-subunit based on a Bacillus subtilis expression system. By comparing with the conventional method in the art, the present invention has the advantages of high safety, good yield, and simplified process and is therefore favorable for the commercialization object of heat labile enterotoxin B-subunit in the application of vaccine adjuvant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Applicant: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jiunn-Horng Lin, Jyh-Perng Wang, Chien-Yu Fang, Zeng-Weng Chen, Ming-Wei Hsieh, Hao-Zhen Zeng, Jian-Fong Lai, Weng-Zeng Huang, Tzu-Ting Peng
  • Publication number: 20160264631
    Abstract: The present invention provides proteins that are suitable to be used as the active ingredient in subunit vaccine against Mycoplasma spp. The present invention also provides a subunit vaccine made therefrom. Said proteins have been experimentally proved to have the capability of inducing sufficient immune response to avoid pigs from Mycoplasma spp. infection. Said vaccine may have one of said proteins as active ingredient; or may have two or more of said proteins and is formulated as a cocktail vaccine. The present vaccine not only is safer than the conventional vaccines but also has equal or even better immune efficiency than the conventional ones. Furthermore, fusion partners suitable for producing said proteins of high solubility are also proved, which can significantly reduce production cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: JIUNN-HORNG LIN, JYH-PERNG WANG, ZENG-WENG CHEN, CHIEN-YU FANG, MING-WEI HSIEH, PING-CHENG YANG
  • Publication number: 20150366959
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are anti-Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, especially proteins suitable for being used as the active ingredient of the Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, and a vaccine prepared therefrom. Upon experimenting, it is confirmed that the proteins can elicit an immune response having sufficient strength to avoid the infection of Mycoplasma spp. in pigs. The vaccine can comprise one of the aforementioned proteins as an active ingredient, or can comprise two or more of the proteins to form a form of cocktail vaccine. The vaccine of the present invention is not only more safe than conventional vaccines, but also has equivalent or even better immune effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jiunn-Horng LIN, Jyh-Perng WANG, Ming-Wei HSIEH, Zeng-Weng CHEN, Chien-Yu FANG, Hsueh-Tao LIU, Ping-Cheng YANG