Patents by Inventor Lixin MA

Lixin MA 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).

  • Patent number: 12054757
    Abstract: A Pyrococcus furiosus Argonaute (PfAgo) mutant protein with mesophilic target nucleic acid cleavage activity and an application thereof are provided. The PfAgo mutant protein has an amino acid mutation on at least one of a 617th position and a 618th position relative to the sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, specifically, K617E/G and/or L618Y/F/W/G. Compared with a wild-type PfAgo protein, the provided PfAgo mutant protein has activity in the temperature range of 30-95 Celsius degree (° C.), effectively expanding application range of prokaryotic Argonaute (pAgo) protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: HUBEI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Lixin Ma, Longyu Wang, Fei Wang, Xiaochen Xie, Wanping Chen, Fuyong Huang
  • Patent number: 12054040
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to improved placement, positioning, and/or orientation of radiators and baffles on a vehicle to improve and/or optimize air flow, radiator, and fuel cell performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: CUMMINS INC
    Inventors: Archit N. Koti, Nilesh Hasabnis, Jairo Martinez Garcia, Mario Miranda, Yongfei Yu, Patrick Kaufman, Jacky Wei, Taojie Chen, Aiden Wang, Jing Ma, Lixin Peng, Yong Xia
  • Patent number: 12043830
    Abstract: An application of a prokaryotic Argonaute protein with only a cleavage activity of a target ribonucleic acid (RNA) in RNA editing is provided. The Argonaute protein is derived from a mesophilic prokaryotes Verrucomimicrobia bacterium, and its amino acid sequence is shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or a protein with high similarity to SEQ ID NO: 1 and the same function. This protein has binding activity to a single-stranded guide DNA and nuclease activity only to the target RNA complementarily paired with the single-stranded guide DNA. Therefore, the protein can be utilized for in vitro and in vivo targeted RNA editing, providing a new powerful tool for RNA editing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: HUBEI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Lixin Ma, Qi Liu, Yang Liu, Fei Wang, Wanping Chen
  • Patent number: 12043759
    Abstract: A titanium dioxide micro-nanocontainers, corrosion-resistant waterborne epoxy coatings and preparation method thereof, including preparation steps as follows: TiO2 micro-nano spheres are synthesized by applying hydrothermal method; a polyaniline layer doped with molybdate ions is deposited on the surface of TiO2 micro-nano spheres by adopting the method of in-situ chemical polymerization, TiO2/PANI-MoO42? micro-nano-spheres are obtained, then, polydopamine is encapsulated on the surface of TiO2/PANI-MoO42? micro-nano spheres to obtain titanium dioxide micro-nanocontainers; next, antirust filler, defoamer, dispersant and thickener are added into waterborne epoxy emulsion, then titanium dioxide micro-nanocontainers are added in the waterborne epoxy emulsion for dispersing and grinding, filtering and encapsulating to obtain component A; the waterborne epoxy curing agent and deionized water are mixed in proportion to obtain component B; component A is stirred, then it is mixed with the component B in proportion,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan Research Institute of Materials Protection
    Inventors: Haitao Duan, Yijie Jin, Dan Jia, Shengpeng Zhan, Jiesong Tu, Tian Yang, Wulin Zhang, Lixin Ma, Yinhua Li
  • Patent number: 12037480
    Abstract: Provided are a three-dimensional carbon-based copolymerization composite, and a preparation method and use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, CAAS
    Inventors: Lixin Zhao, Yulei Zhang, Junyi Ma, Jiadong Yu, Zonglu Yao, Juan Luo, Ruixia Shen
  • Publication number: 20240228794
    Abstract: A titanium dioxide micro-nanocontainers, corrosion-resistant waterborne epoxy coatings and preparation method thereof, including preparation steps as follows: TiO2 micro-nano spheres are synthesized by applying hydrothermal method; a polyaniline layer doped with molybdate ions is deposited on the surface of TiO2 micro-nano spheres by adopting the method of in-situ chemical polymerization, TiO2/PANI-MoO42? micro-nano-spheres are obtained, then, polydopamine is encapsulated on the surface of TiO2/PANI-MoO42? micro-nano spheres to obtain titanium dioxide micro-nanocontainers; next, antirust filler, defoamer, dispersant and thickener are added into waterborne epoxy emulsion, then titanium dioxide micro-nanocontainers are added in the waterborne epoxy emulsion for dispersing and grinding, filtering and encapsulating to obtain component A; the waterborne epoxy curing agent and deionized water are mixed in proportion to obtain component B; component A is stirred, then it is mixed with the component B in proportion,
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Haitao Duan, Yijie Jin, Dan Jia, Shengpeng Zhan, Jiesong Tu, Tian Yang, Wulin Zhang, Lixin Ma, Yinhua Li
  • Publication number: 20240132729
    Abstract: A titanium dioxide micro-nanocontainers, corrosion-resistant waterborne epoxy coatings and preparation method thereof, including preparation steps as follows: TiO2 micro-nano spheres are synthesized by applying hydrothermal method; a polyaniline layer doped with molybdate ions is deposited on the surface of TiO2 micro-nano spheres by adopting the method of in-situ chemical polymerization, TiO2/PANI-MoO42? micro-nano-spheres are obtained, then, polydopamine is encapsulated on the surface of TiO2/PANI-MoO42? micro-nano spheres to obtain titanium dioxide micro-nanocontainers; next, antirust filler, defoamer, dispersant and thickener are added into waterborne epoxy emulsion, then titanium dioxide micro-nanocontainers are added in the waterborne epoxy emulsion for dispersing and grinding, filtering and encapsulating to obtain component A; the waterborne epoxy curing agent and deionized water are mixed in proportion to obtain component B; component A is stirred, then it is mixed with the component B in proportion,
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Haitao Duan, Yijie Jin, Dan Jia, Shengpeng Zhan, Jiesong Tu, Tian Yang, Wulin Zhang, Lixin Ma, Yinhua Li
  • Publication number: 20240110178
    Abstract: An application of a prokaryotic Argonaute protein with only a cleavage activity of a target ribonucleic acid (RNA) in RNA editing is provided. The Argonaute protein is derived from a mesophilic prokaryotes Verrucomimicrobia bacterium, and its amino acid sequence is shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or a protein with high similarity to SEQ ID NO: 1 and the same function. This protein has binding activity to a single-stranded guide DNA and nuclease activity only to the target RNA complementarily paired with the single-stranded guide DNA. Therefore, the protein can be utilized for in vitro and in vivo targeted RNA editing, providing a new powerful tool for RNA editing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Lixin Ma, Qi Liu, Yang Liu, Fei Wang, Wanping Chen
  • Patent number: 11884954
    Abstract: A protein complex based on DNA enzymes of an E family of Escherichia coli and an application thereof in artificial protein scaffolds are provided. The protein complex includes one or more of interaction pairs formed by a CL2 protein and an Im2 protein, a CL7 protein and an Im7 protein, a CL8 protein and an Im8 protein, or a CL9 protein and an Im9 protein. By protein engineering of a carboxyl terminus DNase domain of the DNA enzymes CE2, CE7, CE8 and CE9, mutants that lose DNA enzyme activity but still retain the ultra-high affinity with the corresponding Im protein are obtained, and protein interaction pairs CL2/Im2, CL7/Im7, CL8/Im8 and CL9/Im9 are constructed. These protein interaction pairs have properties of heat resistance, high affinity, high specificity, small molecular weight, fast assembly speed, etc. Based on this, an artificial protein scaffold is constructed for the construction of artificial multienzyme complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hubel University
    Inventors: Lixin Ma, Chao Zhai, Jun Yang, Fei Wang
  • Patent number: 11761001
    Abstract: Mbp_Argonaute proteins from prokaryotes and application thereof are provided. The Mbp_Argonaute protein consists of an amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or a sequence with at least 50% or at least 80% of homology with the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1. An Argonaute protein gene derived from a cold-resistant prokaryote Mucilaginibacter paaluis is synthesized and named as MbpAgo, which has binding activity to single-stranded guide DNA and has nuclease activity to target RNA and/or target DNA complementarily paired with the single-stranded guide DNA, the MbpAgo can be used for the target RNA editing in vivo and in vitro to achieve site-specific modification of genetic material. The MbpAgo can modify highly-structured RNAs and not affect an endogenous RNAi pathway of animal and plant cells, provides a new and powerful tool for RNA editing with high cleavage activity and good specificity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: HUBEI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Lixin Ma, Wenqiang Li, Fei Wang, Ruyi He, Yang Liu
  • Patent number: 11739424
    Abstract: A graphene reinforced aluminum matrix composite with high electrical conductivity and a preparation method thereof. The method includes: obtaining aluminum coated graphene powder by plating aluminum on a graphene surface, melting aluminum block into aluminum liquid, heating a mold to be lower than an aluminum melting point, alternately pouring the aluminum liquid and the aluminum coated graphene powder into the mold for layered casting to obtain a sandwich structure; extruding the sandwich structure into a rectangular test block and then heating to 500˜600° C., performing heat preservation for a preset time and performing forging treatment, and performing longitudinal cold deformation under inert gas to obtain the graphene reinforced aluminum matrix composite. The method can solve a problem that poor wettability of graphene and aluminum matrix, the graphene is evenly dispersed in the aluminum matrix, which can improve strength of the aluminum matrix and keep its high electrical conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: WUHAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS PROTECTION
    Inventors: Haitao Duan, Yinhua Li, Jiesong Tu, Jian Li, Xingeng Li, Zhibin Fan, Dan Jia, Shengpeng Zhan, Tian Yang, Yunhu Ding, Lixin Ma
  • Publication number: 20230235306
    Abstract: An Argonaute protein from eukaryotes and an application thereof are provided. An amino acid sequence of the Argonaute protein is shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or has at least 50% sequence identity with the sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1. The specific cleavage activity of the eukaryotic Argonaute protein on DNA is first proved, and an experimental proof for the study of interaction between the eukaryotic Argonaute protein and DNA is provided. In addition, polypeptides, nucleic acids, expression vectors, compositions, kits, and methods used therein can carry out site-specific operation on intracellular and extracellular genetic materials and can be effectively applied in many fields of biotechnology, providing a new tool for gene editing, modification, and molecular detection of Argonaute polypeptides based on eukaryotic sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Lixin Ma, Ruyi He, Baotong Sun, Fei Wang, Yaping Wang, Zhongchen Li, Guangbo Yan
  • Publication number: 20230220439
    Abstract: A protein complex based on DNA enzymes of an E family of Escherichia coli and an application thereof in artificial protein scaffolds are provided. The protein complex includes one or more of interaction pairs formed by a CL2 protein and an Im2 protein, a CL7 protein and an Im7 protein, a CL8 protein and an Im8 protein, or a CL9 protein and an Im9 protein. By protein engineering of a carboxyl terminus DNase domain of the DNA enzymes CE2, CE7, CE8 and CE9, mutants that lose DNA enzyme activity but still retain the ultra-high affinity with the corresponding Im protein are obtained, and protein interaction pairs CL2/Im2, CL7/Im7, CL8/Im8 and CL9/Im9 are constructed. These protein interaction pairs have properties of heat resistance, high affinity, high specificity, small molecular weight, fast assembly speed, etc. Based on this, an artificial protein scaffold is constructed for the construction of artificial multienzyme complexes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Lixin Ma, Chao Zhai, Jun Yang, Fei Wang
  • Publication number: 20230086290
    Abstract: A graphene reinforced aluminum matrix composite with high electrical conductivity and a preparation method thereof. The method includes: obtaining aluminum coated graphene powder by plating aluminum on a graphene surface, melting aluminum block into aluminum liquid, heating a mold to be lower than an aluminum melting point, alternately pouring the aluminum liquid and the aluminum coated graphene powder into the mold for layered casting to obtain a sandwich structure; extruding the sandwich structure into a rectangular test block and then heating to 500˜600° C., performing heat preservation for a preset time and performing forging treatment, and performing longitudinal cold deformation under inert gas to obtain the graphene reinforced aluminum matrix composite. The method can solve a problem that poor wettability of graphene and aluminum matrix, the graphene is evenly dispersed in the aluminum matrix, which can improve strength of the aluminum matrix and keep its high electrical conductivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Haitao Duan, Yinhua Li, Jiesong Tu, Jian Li, Xingeng Li, Zhibin Fan, Dan Jia, Shengpeng Zhan, Tian Yang, Yunhu Ding, Lixin Ma
  • Publication number: 20220389425
    Abstract: Mbp_Argonaute proteins from prokaryotes and application thereof are provided. The Mbp_Argonaute protein consists of an amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO:1 or a sequence with at least 50% or at least 80% of homology with the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO:1. An Argonaute protein gene derived from a cold-resistant prokaryote Mucilaginibacter paaluis is synthesized and named as MbpAgo, which has binding activity to single-stranded guide DNA and has nuclease activity to target RNA and/or target DNA complementarily paired with the single-stranded guide DNA, the MbpAgo can be used for the target RNA editing in vivo and in vitro to achieve site-specific modification of genetic material. The MbpAgo can modify highly-structured RNAs and not affect an endogenous RNAi pathway of animal and plant cells, provides a new and powerful tool for RNA editing with high cleavage activity and good specificity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Lixin Ma, Wenqiang Li, Fei Wang, Ruyi He, Yang Liu
  • Publication number: 20220348939
    Abstract: The invention belongs to the technical field of genetic engineering, and particularly to a type I-F CRISPR-Cas system based on Zymomonas mobilis (Z. mobilis) including: four CRISPR structural sequences and one cas gene cluster, wherein the cas gene cluster comprises casi gene, cas3 gene, csyl gene, csy2 gene, csy3 gene and csy4 gene, wherein the cast-3 gene is a fusion form fused by a cast gene and a cas3 gene. The purpose of the present invention is to use Z. mobilis as a model bacterium, using a CRISPR-Cas system encoded by the genome of the Z. mobilis and exogenous CRISPR-Cas12a system to build a genome editing platform so as to provide a set of powerful tools for carrying out basic and applied research in this bacterium and similar cells, and promoting the development of metabolic engineering, systems biology and synthetic biology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Shihui Yang, Wenfang Peng, Wei Shen, Yanli Zheng, Li Yi, Lixin Ma
  • Publication number: 20220186254
    Abstract: Argonaute proteins from prokaryotes (pAgos) and applications thereof are provided, the pAgo is from a mesophilic prokaryote of kurthia massiliensis and named as KmAgo, the pAgos and applications thereof are capable of site-specific modification of intracellular and extracellular genetic material, and thus can be effectively applied to many fields of biotechnology, such as nucleic acid detection, gene editing and gene modification, and provide a new tool for gene editing, modification and molecular detection of the pAgo polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Lixin Ma, Yaping Wang, Yang Liu, Xiaoman Jiang
  • Patent number: 11314096
    Abstract: A system and method for performing Optical Coherence Tomography on a sample utilizes collimated, phase modulated beams of light in an interferometer. At least one of the beams of light utilized exists as an Airy beam for at least a portion of the procedure, obviating any deleterious impact caused by the Gaussian beam diffraction. The system may incorporate a light source, polarization beam splitter, delay line, non-polarization beam splitters, lenses, phase masks, waveplates, and mirrors, any or all of which may be controlled by a computing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: The Curators of the University of Missouri
    Inventors: Ping Yu, Lixin Ma
  • Patent number: 11248258
    Abstract: A method for identifying and characterizing biological parts based on omics datasets and a dual-fluorescent reporter gene system, and a biological part library constructed thereon are provided, relating to a technical filed of biology. The method includes steps of: identifying the biological parts using the omics datasets; constructing a single-fluorescent reporter gene system using a shuttle vector pEZ15Asp as a skeleton for screening and determining fluorescent reporter genes; obtaining a dual-fluorescent reporter gene system skeleton; constructing recombinant plasmids, and finally transforming into competent cells for quantitative analysis of fluorescence intensities. The present invention is convenient and quick, and can screen and identify different biological parts such as RBS, UTRs, promoters, and terminators of different intensities in batch quantitatively in a relatively short time. Moreover, the present invention can quickly expand the biological part library of Z.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Hubei University
    Inventors: Shihui Yang, Yongfu Yang, Wei Shen, Runxia Li, Ju Huang, Yu Wang, Li Yi, Lixin Ma
  • Publication number: 20200385795
    Abstract: A method for identifying and characterizing biological parts based on omics datasets and a dual-fluorescent reporter gene system, and a biological part library constructed thereon are provided, relating to a technical filed of biology. The method includes steps of: identifying the biological parts using the omics datasets; constructing a single-fluorescent reporter gene system using a shuttle vector pEZ15Asp as a skeleton for screening and determining fluorescent reporter genes; obtaining a dual-fluorescent reporter gene system skeleton; constructing recombinant plasmids, and finally transforming into competent cells for quantitative analysis of fluorescence intensities. The present invention is convenient and quick, and can screen and identify different biological parts such as RBS, UTRs, promoters, and terminators of different intensities in batch quantitatively in a relatively short time. Moreover, the present invention can quickly expand the biological part library of Z.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Shihui Yang, Yongfu Yang, Wei Shen, Runxia Li, Ju Huang, Yu Wang, Li Yi, Lixin Ma