Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Natural killer cell function enhancer
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Application No.: US16323365Application Date: 2017-08-04
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Publication No.: US11325961B2Publication Date: 2022-05-10
- Inventor: Koetsu Ogasawara
- Applicant: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
- Applicant Address: JP Sendai
- Assignee: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee Address: JP Sendai
- Agency: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP
- Priority: JPJP2016-154742 20160805
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/028490 WO 20170804
- International Announcement: WO2018/026018 WO 20180208
- Main IPC: C07K14/725
- IPC: C07K14/725 ; A61P35/00 ; C07K19/00 ; A61P43/00 ; A61K38/17 ; A61P31/00 ; C12P21/00 ; A61P35/04 ; C07K14/705 ; C12Q1/02 ; G01N33/574

Abstract:
To provide a therapy and a diagnosis of cancer or an infection using recognition mechanism of a T-cell receptor. An NK cell function enhancer comprises, an active ingredient, a T-cell receptor chimeric protein being a fusion protein of: a T-cell receptor variable region capable of recognizing a cancer-specific antigen or a T-cell receptor variable region capable of recognizing an antigen specific to a pathogen causative of an infection, and an immunoglobulin Fc region, wherein the T-cell receptor chimeric protein binds to an MHC molecular complex of a cancer cell to down-modulate an MHC class I molecule complex, and the cancer cell is killed or damaged by recognition of an NK cell; and an NK cell function enhancer for imparting to an NK cell a function of recognizing a cancer cell or an infected cell infected with a pathogen causative of an infection, which expresses an MHC class I molecule, and killing or damaging the cancer cell or the infected cell by TDCC (T-cell receptor chimeric protein-dependent cellular cytotoxicity) activity.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190185539A1 TREATMENT AND DIAGNOSIS OF CANCER OR INFECTIOUS DISEASE USING RECOGNITION MECHANISM OF T CELL RECEPTOR Public/Granted day:2019-06-20
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