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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:
Oct. 22, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Deborah Charych, Albany, CA (US);
Assignee:
Regents of the University of California, Berkeley, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 3/3573 ; G01N 3/353 ; G01N 3/3543 ; G01N 3/3544 ; G01N 3/3545 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 3/3573 ; G01N 3/353 ; G01N 3/3543 ; G01N 3/3544 ; G01N 3/3545 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for the direct detection of membrane conformational changes through the detection of color changes in biopolymeric materials. In particular, the present invention allows for the direct colorimetric detection of membrane modifying reactions and analytes responsible for such modifications and for the screening of reaction inhibitors.