Patents by Inventor Shelley S. Martin

Shelley S. Martin 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).

  • CYANOBACTERIOCHROMES AS COLOR-FAST OR COLOR-SWITCHING FOOD ADDITIVES
    Publication number: 20190133160
    Abstract: Compositions and methods are disclosed for the coloring of foodstuffs with recombinant, purified, and/or isolated cyanobacteriochromes (CBCRs). The CBCRs can affect the apparent color of a food by selective absorbing or fluorescing particular wavelengths of light. The CBCRs can have either colorfast properties, in which the CBCRs consistently appear as having a single color, or color changing properties, in which the CBCRs can switch between two states that each appear as a different color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: John Clark Lagarias, Nathan Clarke Rockwell, Shelley S. Martin
  • In vivo selection of RNA-binding peptides
    Patent number: 5834184
    Abstract: The invention provides methods and kits suitable for large-scale in vivo screening of polypeptides for specific binding affinity to a selected RNA recognition sequence. Polypeptide(s) are screened as fusion proteins with a polypeptide having antitermination activity. Polypeptides having binding activity are identified by their capacity to activate transcription of a reporter gene via binding of the polypeptide being screened to the selected RNA recognition sequence. The invention also provides methods of screening RNA molecules for binding to a selected polypeptide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Inventors: Kazuo Harada, Shelley S. Martin, Alan Frankel