94-2088. Opportunity for a License: Assay To Screen Inhibitors of HIV-1 Aspartyl Protease
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Opportunity for a License: Assay To Screen Inhibitors of HIV-1
Aspartyl Protease
AGENCY: National Institutes of Health, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The National Institutes of Health desires to license (in
accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207) a novel radiometric assay system for
identifying potential new anti-retroviral drugs that target HIV-1
aspartyl proteinase. This retroviral proteinase processes viral
proteins and permits their assembly into the structural components of
the infectious HIV-1 virions. If this enzyme activity can be inhibited,
no mature infectious viral particles are produced.
The enzyme assay itself is a simple test tube procedure that gives
a separation product from a reaction mixture that is easily quantitated
in a scintillation counter. Unlike many current flourimetric and
chromatographic methods, the new test tube assay is rapid, utilizes
commonly available instrumentation, and is highly sensitive to
proteinase activity.
NIH is the co-assignee of the patent rights for this technology
covered by U.S. Patent Application 07/771,554 and developed by Dr. Anil
B. Mukherjee of the National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development and Dr. Martha Knight of Peptide Technologies Corporation.
ADDRESSES: Licensing information and a copy of the U.S. patent
application may be obtained by contacting Steven M. Ferguson,
Technology Licensing Specialist, National Institutes of Health, Office
of Technology Transfer, Box OTT, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 (telephone
301/496-7735; fax 301/402-0220). A signed confidentiality agreement
will be required to receive copies of the patent application.
Dated: January 14, 1994.
Donald P. Christoferson,
Acting Director, Office of Technology Transfer.
[FR Doc. 94-2088 Filed 1-28-94; 8:45 am]
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Document Information
- Published:
- 01/31/1994
- Department:
- Health and Human Services Department
- Entry Type:
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- Action:
- Notice.
- Document Number:
- 94-2088
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- Federal Register: January 31, 1994