Patents by Inventor Sung Hwan You

Sung Hwan You 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: 20230407292
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a monomeric streptavidin-expressing gene construct and a host cell into which a recombinant vector comprising the gene construct has been introduced. The gene construct according to the present invention, after injected in vivo through a strain, may express streptavidin, thereby making it possible not only to monitor in real time the location of the strain or a cancer tissue pre-targeted by the strain by using a biotinylated diagnostic agent, but also to increase the cancer targeting efficiency of a biotinylated anticancer agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Seong Young Kwon, Jung-Joon Min, Yeongjin Hong, Sung-Hwan You, Jin Hee Im
  • Publication number: 20230405131
    Abstract: The present invention relates to host cells expressing monomeric streptavidin. The host cells according to the present invention may express streptavidin in vivo, making it possible to visualize and monitor in real time the biodistribution of cancer tissue, pre-targeted by the host cell, with a biotinylated diagnostic agent, as well as to increase the cancer-targeting efficiency of biotinylated anticancer drugs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Seong Young Kwon, Jung-Joon Min, Yeongjin Hong, Sung-Hwan You, Dong-Yeon Kim, Jin Hee IM
  • Publication number: 20230346851
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a Salmonella strain that selectively acts on cancer for the treatment of cancer, and a composition for preventing or treating cancer containing the same. In particular, the Salmonella strain according to the present invention has a tumor-suppressing effect, but has a significantly low viability in normal organs, and thus may have a significant anticancer effect compared to conventional inventions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Jung Joon Min, Mi Ryung Song, Sung Hwan You, Yeong Jin Hong, Nguyen Dinh Huy
  • Publication number: 20230119241
    Abstract: A method of expressing hydrophobin in a soluble form and a method of purifying hydrophobin, and more particularly, to a method of expressing a recombinant fusion protein including hydrophobin in a soluble form in a host cell and then purifying the expressed recombinant fusion protein are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Geun Joong KIM, Dae Eun CHEONG, Ho-Dong LIM, Sang-Oh AHN, Sung Hwan YOU
  • Publication number: 20220228165
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a DNA construct, and a strain into which a recombinant vector comprising the DNA construct has been introduced. The DNA construct according to the present disclosure allows the expression levels of genes, operably linked downstream of first and second promoters, in a host strain or cell, to be balanced, so that cancer diagnosis and treatment may be performed simultaneously. In addition, the DNA construct of the present disclosure completely does not allow the anticancer protein and the reporter protein to be expressed at all in the absence of doxycycline, and thus it allows the anticancer protein to be expressed at an appropriate dose for cancer treatment by controlling whether or not treatment with doxycycline is performed, and at the same time, enables the size of the cancer to be monitored in real time depending on the expression level of the reporter protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Jung Joon Min, Hyon El Choy, Yeong Jin Hong, Sung Hwan You, Mi Ryung Song
  • Patent number: 10308973
    Abstract: Provided is a real-time imaging method of NAPDH-dependent metabolic activity in a cell and a use thereof, and more particularly, an imaging method capable of measuring concentration gradient and change in an intracellular coenzyme using a mutant of metagenome-derived blue fluorescent protein (mBFP) in real-time and an application method thereof. In particular, the method of imaging and quantifying the coenzyme contained in various biological samples may be performed by improving fluorescence in a short time even under anaerobic conditions, without adding a substrate required for coenzyme measurement or conversion without destroying cells, and without consuming the time required for formation of a special structure (fluorophore) for generating fluorescence unlike the existing quantitative systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Industry Foundation of Chonnam National University
    Inventors: Geun-Joong Kim, Eung Sam Kim, Jeong Sun Kim, Sung Hwan You, Dae Eun Cheong, Eun Seo Jo
  • 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
  • Patent number: 9963708
    Abstract: A recombinant vector enables independent expression of a foreign gene without interfering with a biological circuit of a host cell. A gene encoding a guanylyl cyclase, a gene encoding cGMP receptor protein, and a regulatory nucleotide sequence to which cGMP receptor protein binds, which are derived from a microorganism, are recombined in at least one plasmid. Using the recombinant vector, a foreign gene may be independently expressed without interfering with a biological circuit of a host cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: INDUSTRY FOUNDATION OF CHONNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Geun Joong Kim, Eun Bin Lee, Sung Hwan You
  • 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: 20170002364
    Abstract: The present invention relates to recombinant a vector enabling independent expression of a foreign gene without interfering a biological circuit of a host cell, characterized in that a gene encoding a guanylyl cyclase, a gene encoding cGMP receptor protein, and a regulatory nucleotide sequence to which cGMP receptor protein binds, which are derived from a microorganism, are recombined in at least one plasmid, and a method for independent expression of a foreign gene without interfering a biological circuit of a host cell by using the aforementioned recombinant vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Geun Joong KIM, Eun Bin LEE, Sung Hwan YOU
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8889345
    Abstract: Provided is a detection method of NADP(H) from the change of a fluorescence intensity by a reaction between metagenome-derived blue fluorescent protein (mBFP) and NADPH. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods for detecting NADP(H) using mBFP or his-mBFP, or methods for detecting NADP(H) for measuring an activity of NADP(H) dependent dehydrogenase or oxidoreductase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Industry Foundation of Chonnam National University
    Inventors: Geun Joong Kim, Sung Hwan You
  • Publication number: 20140273011
    Abstract: Provided is a detection method of NADP(H) from the change of a fluorescence intensity by a reaction between metagenome-derived blue fluorescent protein (mBFP) and NADPH. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods for detecting NADP(H) using mBFP or his-mBFP, or methods for detecting NADP(H) for measuring an activity of NADP(H) dependent dehydrogenase or oxidoreductase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2012
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: INDUSTRY FOUNDATION OF CHONNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Geun Joong Kim, Sung Hwan You