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The Evolution of Intein-Based Affinity Methods as Reflected in 30 years of Patent History

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, April 2022
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Title
The Evolution of Intein-Based Affinity Methods as Reflected in 30 years of Patent History
Published in
Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, April 2022
DOI 10.3389/fmolb.2022.857566
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Sai Vivek Prabhala, Izabela Gierach, David W. Wood

Abstract

Self-cleaving affinity tags, based on engineered intein protein domains, have been touted as a universal single step purification platform for tagless non-mAb proteins. These approaches provide all of the power and flexibility of tag-based affinity methods, but deliver a tagless target protein suitable for clinical applications without complex process development. This combination of features might accelerate and de-risk biopharmaceutical development by bridging early discovery to full-scale manufacturing under a single platform. Despite this profound promise, intein-based technologies have yet to reach their full potential. This review examines the evolution of intein-based purification methods in the light of several significant intein patents filed over the last 3 decades. Illustrated with actual key figures from each of the relevant patents, key advances are described with a focus on applications in basic research and biopharmaceutical production. Suggestions for extending intein-based purification systems to emerging therapies and non-protein applications are presented as concluding remarks.

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Unknown 21 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 19%
Student > Master 2 10%
Unspecified 1 5%
Professor 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Other 2 10%
Unknown 10 48%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 19%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 10%
Unspecified 1 5%
Computer Science 1 5%
Chemical Engineering 1 5%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 12 57%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 August 2022.
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#7,418,226
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#718
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#150,447
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
#52
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