Abstract: A deployable airfoil assembly is disclosed that provides for selectively augmenting lift surface area of an aircraft. In one embodiment, a fixed wing is mounted to the aircraft. An auxiliary wing is moveably coupled to the fixed wing and actuatable between a retracted position and an extended position. In the retracted position, the auxiliary wing is housed within the fixed wing and, in the extended position, the auxiliary wing is positioned above the fixed wing such that a venturi passageway is defined between the auxiliary wing and the fixed wing. A sail is deployable along a length of the auxiliary wing from a boom associated with the aircraft.

Abstract: The invention provides methods for making peptides from a polypeptide containing at least one copy of the peptide using clostripain to excise the peptide from the polypeptide. The methods enable the use of a single, highly efficient enzymatic cleavage to produce any desired peptide sequence.

Abstract: The invention provides methods for making peptides from a polypeptide containing at least one copy of the peptide using clostripain to excise the peptide from the polypeptide. The methods enable the use of a single, highly efficient enzymatic cleavage to produce any desired peptide sequence.

Abstract: The invention provides methods for making peptides from a polypeptide containing at least one copy of the peptide using clostripain to excise the peptide from the polypeptide. The methods enable the use of a single, highly efficient enzymatic cleavage to produce any desired peptide sequence.

Abstract: The invention provides methods and nucleic acid constructs to express clostripain.

Abstract: The invention provides an inclusion body fusion partner to increase peptide and polypeptide production in a cell.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a protein purification construct having three tandem, coupled segments composed of a binding protein, an interconnecting linker and a variable fused polypeptide which incorporates the one or more copies of a product peptide. The binding protein is a mammalian or human carbonic anhydrase, or a modified version of the carbonic anhydrase. The protein purification construct may be employed in methods for expression of the product peptide in microbial and higher organism and for ligand immobilized affinity purification of the product peptide.

Abstract: Methods are presented for producing and purifying a variable fusion polypeptide which can be purified by affinity chromatography with the binding protein partner. The variable fusion polypeptide construct has tandem coupled segments containing one or more copies of a desired peptide linked to carbonic anhydrase as the purification binding protein. In the methods, the fusion protein is expressed in a recombinant host using a recombinant vector containing a gene encoding the fusion polypeptide. Then the expressed fusion polypeptide is purified by immobilized reversible inhibitor affinity chromatography. Finally, the purified fusion polypeptide is cleaved from the desired peptides by chemical or enzymatic means and the desired peptides purified with affinity chromatography.