Patents by Inventor Zichun Hua

Zichun Hua 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: 20230405084
    Abstract: The use of phosphatidylserine as a target for treating inflammatory bowel disease. Phosphatidylserine can be used as a marker of inflammatory bowel disease and used for drug screening. Annexin A5 can be traced by phosphatidylserine in the extracellular membrane and indicate the location of lesions and extent of inflammatory bowel disease, and can be used to treat inflammatory bowel disease. Better anti-inflammatory effects can be generated by mutating Annexin A5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Zichun HUA, Xinran WANG, Lulu SONG, Lina HUO, Xuerui ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20180214391
    Abstract: Curcumin and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof are used in the preparation of drugs for antitumor associated syndrome. Also disclosed is the use of curcumin to improve anemia while inhibiting tumors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Zichun Hua, Zhongping Fu, Xiao Chen, Shengwen Guan
  • Patent number: 9708617
    Abstract: A proteomic screening method for anaerobic-specific and expression-effective promoter, and a method of specially delivering and selectively stably expressing target gene in anaerobic tissue by an alcohol dehydrogenase promoter and uses thereof. The latter comprises an anaerobically-induced alcohol dehydrogenase promoter which is used as target gene promoter, anaerobic target bacteria and low copy number plasmid. Therefore, the target gene can be specially and highly expressed under hypoxia condition in vivo or in vitro. The selective gene expression which is driven by the alcohol dehydrogenase promoter in anaerobic tissue can be used as gene therapy method to treat anaerobic tissue disease including tumor, or to prepare anti-tumor drug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zichun Hua, Jianxiang Chen, Dongping Wei, Hongqin Zhuang
  • Patent number: 9340596
    Abstract: Provided is a fusion protein comprising a tumor necrosis factor related apoptosis inducing ligand (TRAIL), integrin ligands of ?V?3 and ?V?5 and a linking peptide. Also provided are the expression method and simple separation and purification process for the production of the fusion protein which is soluble and has high content of the polymer, and use of the fusion protein for the manufacturing of a medicament for the treatment of tumor. The fusion protein has good tumor tissue targeting property, significantly enhanced anti-tumor effect, which can also reduce the dose of the needed protein for the target treatment effect, improve the bioavailability, reduce the treatment cost, decrease and overcome the potential toxic and side effects of the tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis inducing ligand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zichun Hua, Lin Cao
  • Patent number: 8975380
    Abstract: The invention provides the design, preparation methods and applications of the variant of annexin V. The variant of annexin V is the protein with amino acid residue sequence in sequence 1 in the SEQUENCE LISTING, characterized in that it is the protein derived from sequence 1 by one or several amino acid residues of the sequence 1 being substituted, missing or being added and its amino acid residues have the same activity with the sequence of the sequence 1. The variant protein of the annexin V prepared form the preparation methods of the variant of the annexin V has high purity, high productivity, high labeling efficiency and stability, without effect to the biological function of the variant of the annexin V, which is applicable to industrial production and allows for further research of the variant of the annexin V.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Targetpharma Laboratories (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zichun Hua, Minjin Hu
  • Publication number: 20140127736
    Abstract: The invention provides the design, preparation methods and applications of the variant of annexin V. The variant of annexin V is the protein with amino acid residue sequence in sequence 1 in the SEQUENCE LISTING, characterized in that it is the protein derived from sequence 1 by one or several amino acid residues of the sequence 1 being substituted, missing or being added and its amino acid residues have the same activity with the sequence of the sequence 1. The variant protein of the annexin V prepared form the preparation methods of the variant of the annexin V has high purity, high productivity, high labeling efficiency and stability, without effect to the biological function of the variant of the annexin V, which is applicable to industrial production and allows for further research of the variant of the annexin V.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: TARGETPHARMA LABORATORIES (CHANGZHOU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zichun Hua, Minjin Hu
  • Publication number: 20140093885
    Abstract: A proteomic screening method for anaerobic-specific and expression-effective promoter, and a method of specially delivering and selectively stably expressing target gene in anaerobic tissue by an alcohol dehydrogenase promoter and uses thereof. The latter comprises an anaerobically-induced alcohol dehydrogenase promoter which is used as target gene promoter, anaerobic target bacteria and low copy number plasmid. Therefore, the target gene can be specially and highly expressed under hypoxia condition in vivo or in vitro. The selective gene expression which is driven by the alcohol dehydrogenase promoter in anaerobic tissue can be used as gene therapy method to treat anaerobic tissue disease including tumor, or to prepare anti-tumor drug.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventors: Zichun Hua, Jianxiang Chen, DONGPING WEI, Hongqin Zhuang
  • Publication number: 20130150566
    Abstract: The invention belongs to the field of genetic engineering and biotechnology, and specifically discloses a design, preparation and pharmic application of a tumor-targeted TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand's variant. The tumor-targeted TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand's variant is generated by a fused protein which is consisted of the ligand of CD13, the connecting peptide and TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand's variant, and which is by the construction of coding gene of the variant according to the technology of genetic engineering and clone, soluble recombinant expression and ordinary separation and purification. The variant, produced by the method of preparation of the tumor-targeted TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand's variant, has favorable tumor-targeting characteristics and the significant enhancement of the anti-tumor effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: TARGETPHARMA LABORATORIES (CHANGZHOU) CO., LTD
    Inventors: Zichun Hua, Lin Cao, Bo Tang
  • Publication number: 20100311948
    Abstract: Provided is a fusion protein comprising a tumor necrosis factor related apoptosis inducing ligand (TRAIL), integrin ligands of ?V?3 and ?V?5 and a linking peptide. Also provided are the expression method and simple separation and purification process for the production of the fusion protein which is soluble and has high content of the polymer, and use of the fusion protein for the manufacturing of a medicament for the treatment of tumor. The fusion protein has good tumor tissue targeting property, significantly enhanced anti-tumor effect, which can also reduce the dose of the needed protein for the target treatment effect, improve the bioavailability, reduce the treatment cost, decrease and overcome the potential toxic and side effects of the tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis inducing ligand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zichun Hua, Lin Cao
  • Patent number: 7056732
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of biotechnology. The invention provides a novel approach using tobacco mosaic virus omega leader sequence to enhance the solubility of the recombinant products in E. coli and the method of use therefore. The invention provides the utilization of tobacco mosaic virus omega leader sequence into E. coli expression vector, and the tobacco mosaic virus omega leader sequence containing expression vector can be used in combination with other available means to obtain higher expression or better solubility. The invention can be applied to biotechnological pharmaceutical industry, genetic engineering, biochemistry and molecular biology etc. The invention provides an expression vector pTORG, which is a highly efficient GST fusion expression vector, and can significantly enhance the yield of biologically active recombinant products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Nanjing University
    Inventors: Zichun Hua, Hongxia Zhang
  • Publication number: 20030104628
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of biotechnology. The invention provides a novel approach using tobacco mosaic virus omega leader sequence to enhance the solubility of the recombinant products in E. coli and the method of use therefore. The invention provides the utilization of tobacco mosaic virus omega leader sequence into E. coli expression vector, and the tobacco mosaic virus omega leader sequence containing expression vector can be used in combination with other available means to obtain higher expression or better solubility. The invention can be applied to biotechnological pharmaceutical industry, genetic engineering, biochemistry and molecular biology etc. The invention provides an expression vector pTORG, which is a highly efficient GST fusion expression vector, and can significantly enhance the yield of biologically active recombinant products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Applicant: Nanjing University
    Inventors: Zichun Hua, Hongxia Zhang