Patents by Inventor Kouichi Kurose

Kouichi Kurose 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).

  • Variant aequorin genes and process for producing variant aequorin proteins
    Patent number: 5093240
    Abstract: Various variants of photoprotein aequorin (pAQ440), useful for elucidating the mechanism of its luminescence and thereby extending the possibility of concrete applications of aequorin protein, and a process for producing variant aequorin proteins are provided, which variants are obtained by converting base(s) in a specified order of the base arrangement of aequorin gene into other base(s), or by deleting a certain bases in specified continued orders thereof, according to site-specific mutagenesis method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1992
    Assignee: Chisso Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Inouye, Kouichi Kurose, Yoshiyuki Sakaki