Patents by Inventor Sa-Young MIN

Sa-Young MIN 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: 10227595
    Abstract: Provided is a ramp tag capable of solving instability in translation rate resulting from poor compatibility between codons in a foreign gene and a host when expressing a recombinant protein in E. coli. Unlike the conventional codon optimization or codon deoptimization method for solving the problem of rare codons, the present invention increases an expression efficiency of a target protein by merely having the ramp tag be fused with a target gene or independently expressed, without changing the original codon sequence, thereby allowing tRNA to be reused. Thus, the present invention provides a novel method for increasing recombinant protein expression which is capable of reducing costs and time in comparison to the codon optimization method that artificially synthesizes DNA sequences. Therefore, it is expected that the method of the present invention will be able to be used in production of high value-added pharmaceuticals or industrial enzymes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: INDUSTRY FOUNDATION OF CHONNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Geun-Joong Kim, Won Ji Park, Sung-Hwan You, Jin-Young Lee, Eun-Bin Lee, Sa-Young Min
  • Patent number: 10130712
    Abstract: A drug delivery system composition includes Corynebacterium sp. bacteria or Corynebacterium sp. bacteria-derived minicells. The drug delivery system composition is safer for use in human bodies than other bacteria (for example, Escherichia coli (E. coli), Salmonella sp. bacteria, Bacillus sp. bacteria, or the like), or other bacteria-derived drug delivery system. When an anti-cancer drug protein expression construct (protein expression recombinant vector or the like) is included, over-expression of an anti-cancer drug protein, effective protein expression control in vivo, and targeting technique using expression of targeting factor. The drug delivery system composition enables stable drug delivery in vivo, thereby maximizing anti-cancer therapeutic effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: INDUSTRY FOUNDATION OF CHONNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Geun Joong Kim, Jin-Young Lee, Sa-Young Min, Sung-Hwan You, Jung-Joon Min
  • Publication number: 20170354738
    Abstract: A drug delivery system composition includes Corynebacterium sp. bacteria or Corynebacterium sp. bacteria-derived minicells. The drug delivery system composition is safer for use in human bodies than other bacteria (for example, Escherichia coli (E. coli), Salmonella sp. bacteria, Bacillus sp. bacteria, or the like), or other bacteria-derived drug delivery system. When an anti-cancer drug protein expression construct (protein expression recombinant vector or the like) is included, over-expression of an anti-cancer drug protein, effective protein expression control in vivo, and targeting technique using expression of targeting factor. The drug delivery system composition enables stable drug delivery in vivo, thereby maximizing anti-cancer therapeutic effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Geun Joong KIM, Jin-Young LEE, Sa-Young MIN, Sung-Hwan YOU, Jung-Joon MIN
  • Publication number: 20160017341
    Abstract: Provided is a ramp tag capable of solving instability in translation rate resulting from poor compatibility between codons in a foreign gene and a host when expressing a recombinant protein in E. coli. Unlike the conventional codon optimization or codon deoptimization method for solving the problem of rare codons, the present invention increases an expression efficiency of a target protein by merely having the ramp tag be fused with a target gene or independently expressed, without changing the original codon sequence, thereby allowing tRNA to be reused. Thus, the present invention provides a novel method for increasing recombinant protein expression which is capable of reducing costs and time in comparison to the codon optimization method that artificially synthesizes DNA sequences. Therefore, it is expected that the method of the present invention will be able to be used in production of high value-added pharmaceuticals or industrial enzymes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: INDUSTRY FOUNDATION OF CHONNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Geun-Joong KIM, Won Ji PARK, Sung-Hwan YOU, Jin-Young LEE, Eun-Bin LEE, Sa-Young MIN