Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

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UW-Madison researchers have developed a titin DNA construct (a ‘titin minigene plasmid’) that is useful for identifying agents that modulate the titin size reduction that correlates with age and l...
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Wei Guo, Yanghai Zhang | P230097US01

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SARS-CoV-2 Polymerase Production

Coronaviruses are a group of RNA viruses that can cause disease. Some, such as the common cold, can cause mild disease, while others, such as COVID-19, can be lethal. An unusual characteristic of coro...
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Robert Kirchdoerfer | P210033US01

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Electronically Activated Strained Alkynes

R1 and R2 are hydrogen or C1 to C12 linear or branched alkyl; R3 is hydrogen, C1 to C12 linear or branched alkyl, or nitrogen protecting groups; X is oxygen or nitrogen; and when X is oxygen, R4 is ab...
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Jennifer Schomaker, Eileen Burke | P170043US02

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Electronically Activated Strained Alkynes

Compounds of Formula I: [Image Omitted] wherein: R1 and R1′ are independently selected from hydrogen, halogen, C1-to-C12 linear or branched hydroxyalkyl, C1-to-C12 linear or branched halo-alkyl, ...
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Jennifer Schomaker, Eileen Burke | P170043US03

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Methods And Systems For Transmission And Detection Of Free Radicals

The present disclosure provides systems and methods for characterizing the interaction of free radicals with various materials and the use of known interactions to isolate free radical generation from...
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J. Leon Shohet, Michael Sussman, Faraz Choudhury, Benjamin Minkoff, Grzegorz Sabat, Joshua Blatz | P170004US02

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Reagents for Bioreversible Protein Esterification

Chemoselective transformations are of key importance in modern chemical biology. Protein esterification can, for example, be employed for labeling, enhanced cellular uptake and other useful protein mo...
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Ronald Raines, Kalie Mix | P150262US03

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Enhancing Cell Penetration to Improve Drug Delivery

The utility of many biologic drugs is limited by inefficient cellular delivery. There is a particular need for methods and reagents that facilitate delivery of peptides and proteins into the interior ...
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Ronald Raines, Kristen Andersen | P150031US02

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New Disulfide-Bond Reducing Agent

Disulfide bonds between cysteine residues are the most common crosslinking agents in proteins. Reducing these bonds is an ordinary procedure in biochemistry and biotechnology. The most commonly used r...
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Ronald Raines, John Lukesh | P140284US01

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Predicting Protein Hot Spot Residues

Most biological processes involve multiple proteins interacting with each other. While the principles governing protein-protein interactions are not fully understood, it is known that a small subset o...
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Julie Mitchell, Xiaolei Zhu, Steven Darnell | P140357US01

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Improved Ref Nuclease for Site-Specific DNA Cleavage

Restriction enzymes are commonly used to cleave double-stranded DNA. These enzymes bind to specific sequences of DNA (the ‘restriction site’) and cleave the DNA either at the recognition site or a...
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Michael Cox, Angela Gruber, Tayla Olsen | P130114US02

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New Amphiphiles for Manipulating Membrane Proteins

Membrane proteins perform many crucial functions in vivo but are difficult to manipulate and study because they are not soluble in simple aqueous buffers. Solubilizing membrane proteins for physical c...
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Samuel Gellman, Pil Seok Chae | P09028US02

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Improved Disulfide-Bond Reducing Agents

Disulfide bonds between cysteine residues are the most common crosslinking agents in proteins. Reducing these bonds is an ordinary procedure in biochemistry and biotechnology. The most commonly used r...
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Ronald Raines, John Lukesh | P110330US02

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New Amphiphiles for Manipulating Integral Membrane Proteins

Integral membrane proteins are crucial cellular components, helping to transfer material and signals through the cytoplasm or between different cell compartments. Analyzing the structures and function...
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Samuel Gellman, Pil Seok Chae, Soren Rasmussen, Brian Kobilka | P110170US02

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Multidimensional Spectrometer

Over the last eight years, academic researchers have been developing a new set of spectroscopic techniques that are multidimensional versions of visible and infrared spectroscopies, such as two-dimens...
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Martin Zanni, Niels Damrauer | P07420US

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