MUMBAI, India, Jan. 10 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202417069277 A) filed by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, on Sept. 13, 2024, for 'improving the efficiency of pal-catalyzed protein ligation by a cascade enzymatic scheme.'

Inventor(s) include Liu, Chuan Fa; Xia, Yiyin; and Li, Fupeng.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 10, under issue no. 02/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention generally relates to enzymatic peptide or protein ligation. In particular, the present invention provides an improved method of enzymatic peptide or protein ligation, which comprises coupling a peptidyl asparaginyl ligase (PAL)-catalyzed ligation to a glutaminyl cyclase (QC)-catalyzed pyroglutamyl formation to improve yield of ligated product."

The patent application was internationally filed on Mar. 31, 2023, under International application No.PCT/SG2023/050219.

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