Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Antibody constant region variant
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Application No.: US14680250Application Date: 2015-04-07
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Publication No.: US10253091B2Publication Date: 2019-04-09
- Inventor: Tomoyuki Igawa , Taichi Kuramochi , Atsuhiko Maeda , Hirotake Shiraiwa
- Applicant: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Priority: JP2009-068631 20090319; JP2009-213901 20090916
- Main IPC: C07K16/00
- IPC: C07K16/00 ; C07K16/28

Abstract:
By altering amino acid sequences, the present inventors successfully produced constant regions that can confer antibodies with particularly favorable properties for pharmaceutical agents. When used to produce antibodies, the altered constant regions produced according to the present invention significantly reduce heterogeneity. Specifically, the antibody homogeneity can be achieved by using antibody heavy chain and light chain constant regions introduced with alterations provided by the present invention. More specifically, the alterations can prevent the loss of homogeneity of antibody molecules due to disulfide bond differences in the heavy chain. Furthermore, in a preferred embodiment, the present invention can improve antibody pharmacokinetics as well as prevent the loss of homogeneity due to C-terminal deletion in antibody constant region.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150274809A1 ANTIBODY CONSTANT REGION VARIANT Public/Granted day:2015-10-01
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