SBIR/STTR Research Award
STABILIZATION OF PROTEINS BY CROSSLINKING
Award amount
$161,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1986Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- SURMODICS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
A PROJECT IS PROPOSED TO DEVELOP TECHNIQUES FOR STABILIZATION OF PROTEINS BY COVALENT CROSSLINKING. WE PLAN TO USE MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY SPECIFIC FOR T-2 TOXIN AS THE PRIMARY PROTEIN TO USE FOR DEVELOPING STABILIZATION TECHNOLOGY. USING LIGAND STABILIZATION TO DECREASE INACTIVATION DURING THE CROSSLINKING, WE PROPOSE TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INTRAMOLECULAR CROSSLINKING BETWEEN BOTH HYDROPHILIC AND HYDROPHOBIC GROUPS IN THE PROTEIN MOLECULES AS WELL AS INTERMOLECULAR CROSSLINKING WITH HIGHLY STRESS RESISTANT PROTEIN.
Technology keywords
Not reported