Patents by Inventor Satwik Kamtekar

Satwik Kamtekar 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).

  • Publication number: 20150011433
    Abstract: Multi-biotinylated reactants are provided which can be used in divalent complexes for various applications such as colocalization, labeling, immobilization, and purification. Methods for constructing, purifying, and using the bis-biotinylated reactants are also provided. In certain embodiments, two bis-biotinylated reactants are bound to a single streptavidin tetramer to provide a complex having a 1:1 stoichiometry with respect to the bis-biotinylated reactants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Miller, Satwik Kamtekar, Keith Bjornson, Jeremiah Hanes
  • Patent number: 8906660
    Abstract: Provided are compositions comprising recombinant DNA polymerases that include amino acid substitutions, insertions, deletions, and/or exogenous features that confer modified properties upon the polymerase for enhanced single molecule sequencing. Such properties include increased resistance to photodamage, and can also include enhanced metal ion coordination, reduced exonuclease activity, reduced reaction rates at one or more steps of the polymerase kinetic cycle, decreased branching fraction, altered cofactor selectivity, increased yield, increased thermostability, increased accuracy, increased speed, increased readlength, and the like. Also provided are nucleic acids which encode the polymerases with the aforementioned phenotypes, as well as methods of using such polymerases to make a DNA or to sequence a DNA template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: Satwik Kamtekar, Arek Bibillo, Keith Bjornson, Fred Christians, Colleen Cutcliffe, Jeremiah Hanes, Lei Jia, Walter Lee, Erik Miller, Pranav Patel
  • Publication number: 20140094374
    Abstract: Provided are compositions comprising recombinant DNA polymerases that include amino acid substitutions, insertions, deletions, and/or exogenous features that confer modified properties upon the polymerase for enhanced single molecule sequencing or nucleic acid amplification. Such properties include increased stability, increased readlength, enhanced performance with large nucleotide analogs, and improved detection of modified bases, and can also include resistance to photodamage, enhanced metal ion coordination, reduced exonuclease activity, reduced reaction rates at one or more steps of the polymerase kinetic cycle, decreased branching fraction, altered cofactor selectivity, increased yield, increased accuracy, altered speed, increased cosolvent resistance, and the like. Also provided are nucleic acids which encode the polymerases with the aforementioned phenotypes, as well as methods of using such polymerases to make a DNA or to sequence a DNA template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: Satwik Kamtekar, Erik Miller
  • Publication number: 20140094375
    Abstract: Provided are compositions comprising recombinant DNA polymerases that include amino acid substitutions, insertions, deletions, and/or exogenous features that confer modified properties upon the polymerase for enhanced single molecule sequencing or nucleic acid amplification. Such properties include enhanced performance with large nucleotide analogs, increased stability, increased readlength, and improved detection of modified bases, and can also include resistance to photodamage, enhanced metal ion coordination, reduced exonuclease activity, reduced reaction rates at one or more steps of the polymerase kinetic cycle, decreased branching fraction, altered cofactor selectivity, increased yield, increased accuracy, altered speed, increased cosolvent resistance, and the like. Also provided are nucleic acids which encode the polymerases with the aforementioned phenotypes, as well as methods of using such polymerases to make a DNA or to sequence a DNA template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Pacific BioSciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: Satwik Kamtekar, Erik Miller
  • Publication number: 20130316912
    Abstract: Compositions and methods are provided for nucleotide analogs comprising protein shields for improving enzyme photostability in single molecule real time sequencing. Nucleotide analogs of the invention have a protein shield between the dye moieties and nucleotide moieties of the analog. The protein prevents the direct interaction of the dye moiety with the enzyme carrying out nucleotide synthesis preventing photodamage to the enzyme. The nucleotide analogs of the invention can have multiple dyes and multiple nucleotide moieties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Bjornson, Jeremiah Hanes, Erik Miller, Satwik Kamtekar, Lubomir Sebo, Louis Brogley
  • Publication number: 20120034602
    Abstract: Provided are compositions comprising recombinant DNA polymerases that include amino acid substitutions, insertions, deletions, and/or exogenous features that confer modified properties upon the polymerase for enhanced single molecule sequencing. Such properties can include enhanced metal ion coordination, reduced exonuclease activity, reduced reaction rates at one or more steps of the polymerase kinetic cycle, decreased branching fraction, altered cofactor selectivity, increased yield, increased thermostability, increased accuracy, increased speed, increased readlength, and the like. Also provided are nucleic acids which encode the polymerases with the aforementioned phenotypes, as well as methods of using such polymerases to make a DNA or to sequence a DNA template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: Robin Emig, Insil Park, Lei Jia, Arek Bibillo, Keith Bjornson, Molly He, Jeremiah Hanes, Harold Lee, Sonya Clark, Fred Christians, Paul Peluso, John Vieceli, Satwik Kamtekar, Erik Miller, Colleen Cutcliffe, Walter Lee