Overview

Allied Minds and University of Nebraska have teamed to establish Purtein. The company will commercialize a protein purification technique for simply and cost-effectively isolating proteins from a superfamily of proteins sharing a common structural topology.

The company has also developed a protein TAG from a fragment of one of these proteins that can be used to inexpensively purify a recombinant fusion protein composed of the TAG and any target protein of interest. It also has a quantitative ELISA for the TAG. The Purtein technology was developed by Drs. Elliott Bedows, Jason A. Wilken, and Thomas McDonald of the University of Nebraska Medical Center.