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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7195923 | Ratiometric determination of glycated protein The present invention provides methods for determining a ratio of an amount of a glycated form of a protein to a total amount of the protein in a sample containing the glycated protein, the glycosylated protein, or the glycoprotein. The method incorporates lateral f... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7112453 | Retentate chromatography and protein chip arrays with applications in biology and medicine This invention provides methods of retentate chromatography for resolving analytes in a sample. The methods involve adsorbing the analytes to a substrate under a plurality of different selectivity conditions, and detecting the analytes retained on the substrate by d... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7070941 | Methods and compositions for tagging via azido substrates The invention provides methods and compositions for azide tagging of biomolecules. In one embodiment of the invention, proteins are tagged by metabolic incorporation of prenylated azido-analog substrates. Examples of such analogs are azido farnesyl diphosphate and a... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7060478 | Process for preparing lysozyme A process for preparing lysozyme is provided which is characterized by mixing the egg white or its diluted solution with diatomaceous earth, kaolin, zeolite, or the mixtures thereof, and followed by eluting the adsorbed lysozyme with a salt solution. The diatomaceou... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7011963 | Process for synthesis of bead-shaped cross-linked hydrophilic support polymer The invention relates to a process for synthesis, by inverse bead polymerization of a monomer phase, of a bead-like, cross-linked, hydrophilic copolymer which has binding activity toward ligands containing nucleophilic groups. The invention relates to support polyme... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6936431 | Methods and compositions for inhibiting farnesyl transferase enzyme Disclosed are methods and compositions for the identification, characterization and inhibition of farnesyl protein transferases, enzymes involved in the farnesylation of various cellular proteins, including cancer related ras proteins such as p21ras. One ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6884628 | Multifunctional polymeric surface coatings in analytic and sensor devices Multifunctional, polyionic copolymers with molecular architectures and properties optimized for specific applications are synthesized on/or applied to substrate surfaces for analytical and sensing purposes. The coatings are particularly useful for suppression of non... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6783962 | Particulate material for purification of bio-macromolecules The present invention relates to particulate material having a density of at least 2.5 g/ml, where the particles of the particulate material have an average diameter of 5-75 μm, and the particles of the particulate material are essentially constructed of a polymeri... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6703207 | Method of screening substances with a glycidyl methacrylate covered styrene-glycidyl methacrylate polymer A compound possessing physiological activity is coupled to a styrene-glycidyl methacrylate polymer through a spacer. Compounds that may be used include receptors such as proteins, and 3-[(5-(2,3-dimethoxy-6-methyl-benzoquinonyl)]-2-nonyl-2-propionic a ... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6635420 | Purification of substances from a biological sample The invention concerns a method for the purification of a target substance from a biological sample by immobilizing the target substance on a solid phase by means of a high affinity binding pair and subsequently eluting it by adding a partner of the bindi... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6569649 | Compositions and methods for saccharide synthesis Processes for preparing oligosaccharides, polysaccharides, glycolipids, glycoproteins, and other saccharide compositions are provided which involve the enzyme facilitated transfer of a preselected saccharide unit from a donor moiety to an acceptor moiety.... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6566134 | High Beta-Conglycinin products and their use The utility of soybeans having a composition of greater than 40% of the protein as beta-conglycinin and less than 10% of the protein as glycinin for making highly functional high beta-conglycinin compositions was discovered. The discovered ingredients are... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6545132 | Microsphere containing glycidyl methacrylate covered polymer and spacer coupled compound for isolating substances A microsphere is prepared containing a compound possessing physiological activity coupled to a styrene-glycidyl methacrylate polymer through a spacer. Compounds that may be used include receptors such as proteins, and 3-[(5-(2,3-dimethoxy-6-methyl-benzoqu... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6514688 | Separating, detecting or quantifying biological materials using magnetic cross-linked polyvinyl alcohol particles Biological materials in a mixture of substances are separated, detected or quantified using magnetic spherically shaped cross-linked polyvinyl alcohol (PVAL) polymer particles ranging in size from 1 to 10 μm. The particles containing a coupled ligand are... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6410704 | Methods and compositions for the preparation and use of a herpes protease The present invention relates to the identification and purification of a herpes protease and a nucleic acid segment coding for two proteins. The first protein is the herpes protease which is able to cleave itself and also cleave the second protein. This ... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6352852 | Method for the purification of human platelet heparanase A method for the purification of human platelet heparanase using chromatographic techniques is described. The method comprises detergent-aided solubilization of a heparanase-containing fraction followed by purification of the heparanase therefrom by conca... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6337215 | Magnetic particles having two antiparallel ferromagnetic layers and attached affinity recognition molecules Magnetic particles are prepared and used for selective separation of affinity bound partners in solution. The magnetic particles have large magnetic moments which can be made such that different strengths of magnetic moments and/or different magnetic fiel... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6331418 | Saccharide compositions, methods and apparatus for their synthesis A method for preparing saccharide compositions which is reiterative and includes the following three steps. (i) A glycosyltransferase capable of transferring a preselected saccharide unit to an acceptor moiety is isolated by contacting the acceptor moiety ... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6303326 | Insect salivary enzyme triggers systemic resistance The present invention includes the characterization of the major salivary protein or enzyme of the corn earworm Helicoverpa zea for triggering resistance to bacterial blight and frogeye leafspot in soybeans and for triggering resistance to insects in toma... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6242265 | Use of doubly or triply charged cations in immunochemical assays The use of calcium salts, magnesium salts or combination thereof in immunochemical methods for the determination of an analyte in a sample. These salts increase the specificity of such determinations, in particular, the background signal being reduced by ... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6232089 | CD23 processing enzyme preparation The present invention is to the discovery of a novel CD23 processing enzyme which is of importance in the human immune response and regulation of IgE production, and is a protein expressed on the surface of a variety of cells.... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6200791 | Method of purifying thrombin-like protease enzymes obtained from snake venom A process for purifying thrombin-like proteases from snake venoms is described, which consists in freeing the proteases from impurities in three chromatographic steps: a) affinity or anion exchange, b) adsorption onto a glass matrix at alkaline pH values,... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6174700 | Purification of a polypeptide compound having a polysaccharide binding domain by affinity phase separation A compound having a polysaccharide binding domain such as contained by a cellulose and essentially lacking in polysaccharidase activity is purified from other ingredients in a mixture using an affinity partition system. A mixture containing the compound i... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6156555 | Method of preparing an enzyme participating in C-terminal amidation A purified enzyme-I is obtained that participates in C-terminal amidation by acting on a peptide C-terminal glycine adduct to form a peptide C-terminal -hydroxyglycine adduct. The enzyme has an optimum pH of about 5 to 7, an optimum temperature of ... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6150151 | Affinity chromatographic matrix containing non-covalently bound ligand for purification of biological material An affinity chromatographic matrix for purification of a biological material is provided having an ionically charged polymeric ligand such as glycoaminoglycan non-covalently bound directly by an ionic bond to an oppositely ionically charged group on a chr... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6048715 | Two-phase partition affinity separation system and affinity separated cell-containing composition A two-phase partition system is provided for affinity separation of a composition containing a polysaccharide binding peptide from a mixture such as a fermentation broth. The peptide may be from an enzyme and lacking in polysaccharidase activity such as t... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6043067 | Distributing liquid in a fluid bed reactor into turbulent and non-turbulent zones In a vertical down-flow fluid bed reactor, suspended particles in liquid proximal to an inlet in an uppermost part of the reactor are agitated to form a downward extending turbulent zone having vigorously moving particles and a non-turbulent zone distal t... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5986072 | Isolating substances with 3-[(5-(2,3-dimethoxy-6-methyl-1,4-benzoquinonyl)]-2-nonyl-2-propionic acid coupled to a microsphere A substance possessing physiological activity is coupled to a styrene-glycidyl methacrylate polymer through a spacer, and is used to isolate from a mixture a substance that can adhere to the substance possessing physiological activity. Preferably the poly... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5958722 | Use of recombinant inhibitor from Erythrina caffra for purifying serine proteases Process for purifying serine proteases from a protein mixture by binding the serine protease to an immobilized polypeptide with the activity of an inhibitor DE-3 from Erythrina caffra, removing unbound components from the protein mixture, detaching the se... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5936070 | Chemiluminescent compounds and methods of use Methods are disclosed for determining an analyte in a medium suspected of containing the analyte. One method comprises providing (1) combining a medium suspected of containing the analyte and a novel chemiluminescent compound, (2) combining a means for ch... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5874261 | Method for the purification of glycosyltransferases A reiterative method for obtaining the glycosyltransferases useful for glycosyltransferase-catalyzed synthesis of a saccharide composition by serially bonding preselected saccharide units onto an immobilized acceptor moiety which is one member selected fr... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5783433 | Purified forms of DNase The present invention provides the identification and characterization of two components of a recombinant preparation of DNase. These components are the purified deamidated and non-deamidated human DNases. Taught herein are the separation of these compone... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5780281 | Method of preparing a low-density porous fused-fiber matrix A method is provided for preparing a low density porous rigid fused-fiber matrix having a density of between about 3.5 and 5.5 pounds/cubic foot and a free volume of between about 90-98 volume percent for use as a cell-culture substrate or implant materia... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5773587 | Hydrophlic polymer coated perflurocarbon polymer matrices for bioaffinity separations Perfluorocarbon polymer-based matrices are coated with a hydrophilic polymer for use in bioaffinity separations. Coating is carried out by dispersing porous particles of inert perfluorocarbon polymer in a water-miscible organic solvent such as acetone or ... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5766908 | High-flux semipermeable membrane containing immobilized affinity ligands An affinity support is provided containing a high flux semipermeable hydrogel membrane surface-modified with an affinity ligand, such as a protein which may be an antibody or enzyme, or a cell receptor complement, useful for affinity separation of biologi... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5746978 | Device for treating nucleic acids from a sample Device for the treatment of nucleic acids from the sample, comprising a first reaction chamber for separating the nucleic acids from other sample components, and a second reaction chamber for the amplification of the nucleic acids, connected to said first... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5739025 | Method for producing an asparaginyl endoprotease A method is provided for preparing an asparaginyl endoproteinase from the seeds of soybean, ginkgo and rice which have been collected between an early growing stage and ripening. The method comprises the steps of dialyzing an extract of the seeds against ... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5589386 | Hydrolysis of cholinesterase inhibitors using parathion hydrolase A gene is provided encoding a DNA sequence for the expression of parathion hydrolase and a methionine analog thereof. In a preferred embodiment, a parathion hydrolase gene encoding sequence is obtained in which twenty-eight amino acids are deleted from th... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5583042 | Apparatus for the synthesis of saccharide compositions This invention relates to an apparatus containing specific binary combinations of glycosyltransferases, for the synthesis of specific saccharide compositions such as, for example, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides, glycolipids, and glycopeptides.... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5573936 | Process for purifying echinocandin B deacylase Echinocandin B deacylase is purified to near homogeneity from Actinoplanes utahensis by a process comprising, in order, extracting the soluble enzyme, heating to 60° C., hydrophobic interaction chromatography, (NH4)2 SO4 ... | 11/12/1996 |
