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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jnanendra K Bhattacharjee, Oxford, OH (US);
Richard C Garrad, Columbia, MO (US);
Paul L Skatrud, Greenwood, IN (US);
Robert B Peery, Brownsburg, IN (US);
Assignee:
Miami University, Oxford, OH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; C07H / ; C07H / ; C12P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-6 ; 536 231 ; 536 2432 ; 435 911 ; 435 912 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides novel methods and materials for detecting the presence of a fungus in a biological sample. The inventive methods and materials exploit the fact that the amino acid sequence of the saccharopine dehydrogenase molecule is highly conserved in fungi. Inventive hybridization probes, nucleic acids, PCR primers, antibodies, epitopes, reagents and methods are provided.