Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100035817 | METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CONJUGATES OF INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR-1 AND POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) - The present invention relates to a fusion protein comprising IGF-I or an IGF-I variant N-terminally linked to the C-terminus of a propeptide. The invention relates also to a method involving the use of the aforementioned fusion protein in the production of a lysine-PEGylated IGF-I or IGF-I variant. The method comprises the steps of cultivating a prokaryotic host cell comprising an expression vector containing a nucleic acid encoding the fusion protein and causing the cell to express the fusion protein, recovering and PEGylating said fusion protein, cleaving said PEGylated fusion protein with IgA protease, and recovering lysine-PEGylated IGF-I or IGF-I variant. The invention relates also to a lysine-PEGylated IGF-I or IGF-I variant produced using the above method. In addition, the invention relates to a method for treating a neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's Disease using the lysine-PEGylated IGF-I or IGF-I variant and a composition comprising the lysine-PEGylated IGF-I or IGF-I variant. | 02-11-2010 |
20100121036 | METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR-1 - Method for the production of IGF-I, characterized by cultivating a prokaryotic host cell comprising an expression vector containing a nucleic acid encoding a fusion protein comprising said IGF-I N-terminally linked to the C-terminus of a propeptide, whereby said propeptide ends C-terminally with amino acids -Y-Pro, wherein Y is selected from the group consisting of Pro, Pro-Ala, Pro-Gly, Pro-Thr, Ala-Pro, Gly-Pro, Thr-Pro, Arg-Pro, or Pro-Arg-Pro, recovering and cleaving said fusion protein with IgA protease, and recovering said IGF-I. IGF-I is useful for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's Disease. | 05-13-2010 |
20100210547 | METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CONJUGATES OF INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR-1 AND POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) - The present invention relates to a fusion protein comprising IGF-I or an IGF-I variant N-terminally linked to the C-terminus of a propeptide. The invention relates also to a method involving the use of the aforementioned fusion protein in the production of a lysine-PEGylated IGF-I or IGF-I variant. The method comprises the steps of cultivating a prokaryotic host cell comprising an expression vector containing a nucleic acid encoding the fusion protein and causing the cell to express the fusion protein, recovering and PEGylating said fusion protein, cleaving said PEGylated fusion protein with IgA protease, and recovering lysine-PEGylated IGF-I or IGF-I variant. The invention relates also to a lysine-PEGylated IGF-I or IGF-I variant produced using the above method. In addition, the invention relates to a method for treating a neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's Disease using the lysine-PEGylated IGF-I or IGF-I variant and a composition comprising the lysine-PEGylated IGF-I or IGF-I variant. | 08-19-2010 |
20110009317 | CONJUGATES OF INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR-1 AND POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) - A conjugate consisting of an insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-I) variant and one or two poly(ethylene glycol) group(s), characterized in that said IGF-I variant has an amino acid alteration at up to three amino acid positions 27, 37, 65, 68 of the wild-type IGF-I amino acid sequence so that one or two of said amino acids is/are lysine and amino acid 27 is a polar amino acid but not lysine, is conjugated via the primary amino group(s) of said lysine(s) and said poly(ethylene glycol) group(s) have an overall molecular weight of from 20 to 100 kDa is disclosed. This conjugate is useful for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's Disease. | 01-13-2011 |
20110034672 | PURIFICATION OF NOT-GLYCOSYLATED POLYPEPTIDES - The current invention reports a method for the purification of a not-glycosylated, heterologous polypeptide, which has been recombinantly produced in a prokaryotic cell, wherein the method comprises three chromatography steps of which the first chromatography step selected from i) hydrophobic charge induction chromatography, or ii) hydrophobic interaction chromatography, or iii) affinity chromatography, or iv) ion exchange chromatography, the second chromatography step is selected from i) anion exchange chromatography, or ii) cation exchange chromatography, or iii) hydroxylapatite chromatography, or iv) hydrophobic interaction chromatography, and the a third chromatography step is selected from i) hydrophobic charge induction chromatography, or ii) anion exchange chromatography, or iii) cation exchange chromatography, or iv) hydrophobic interaction chromatography, whereby the first chromatography step is an affinity chromatography in case of polypeptides capable of interacting with metal ligands, the second chromatography step is not a hydroxylapatite chromatography step in case of polypeptides with an isoelectric point below 6.0, and the third chromatography step can be performed in flow-through mode with polypeptides having a low or high isoelectric point. | 02-10-2011 |
20120309679 | IGF-I POLY (ETHYLENE GLYCOL) CONJUGATES - Herein is reported a method for producing of a polypeptide conjugated to one poly (ethylene glycol) comprising a) providing a nucleic acid encoding an expression construct comprising in 5′ to 3′ direction a nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide, and a nucleic acid encoding a trypsin site of SEQ ID NO: 01, b) expressing the nucleic acid of a) in a cell and recovering the expression construct from the cell and/or the cultivation medium, c) providing a target peptide with an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 02 covalently conjugated to a poly (ethylene glycol) at the C-terminal lysine residue, d) incubating the expression construct and the target peptide with the trypsin mutant D189K, K60E, N143H, E151H, and e) recovering and thereby producing the polypeptide conjugated to one poly (ethylene glycol) from the incubation mixture. | 12-06-2012 |
20120322732 | CONJUGATES OF INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR-1 AND POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) - A conjugate consisting of an insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-I) variant and one or two poly(ethylene glycol) group(s), characterized in that said IGF-I variant has an amino acid alteration at up to three amino acid positions 27, 37, 65, 68 of the wild-type IGF-I amino acid sequence so that one or two of said amino acids is/are lysine and amino acid 27 is a polar amino acid but not lysine, is conjugated via the primary amino group(s) of said lysine(s) and said poly(ethylene glycol) group(s) have an overall molecular weight of from 20 to 100 kDa is disclosed. This conjugate is useful for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's Disease. | 12-20-2012 |
20130065831 | METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CONJUGATES OF INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR-1 AND POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) - The present invention relates to a fusion protein comprising IGF-I or an IGF-I variant N-terminally linked to the C-terminus of a propeptide. The invention relates also to a method involving the use of the aforementioned fusion protein in the production of a lysine-PEGylated IGF-I or IGF-I variant. The method comprises the steps of cultivating a prokaryotic host cell comprising an expression vector containing a nucleic acid encoding the fusion protein and causing the cell to express the fusion protein, recovering and PEGylating said fusion protein, cleaving said PEGylated fusion protein with IgA protease, and recovering lysine-PEGylated IGF-I or IGF-I variant. The invention relates also to a lysine-PEGylated IGF-I or IGF-I variant produced using the above method. In addition, the invention relates to a method for treating a neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's Disease using the lysine-PEGylated IGF-I or IGF-I variant and a composition comprising the lysine-PEGylated IGF-I or IGF-I variant. | 03-14-2013 |
20130190478 | PURIFICATION OF NOT-GLYCOSYLATED POLYPEPTIDES - The current invention reports a method for the purification of a non-glycosylated, heterologous polypeptide, which has been recombinantly produced in a prokaryotic cell, wherein the method comprises three chromatography steps of which the first chromatography step selected from i) hydrophobic charge induction chromatography, or ii) hydrophobic interaction chromatography, or iii) affinity chromatography, or iv) ion exchange chromatography, the second chromatography step is selected from i) anion exchange chromatography, or ii) cation exchange chromatography, or iii) hydroxylapatite chromatography, or iv) hydrophobic interaction chromatography, and the a third chromatography step is selected from i) hydrophobic charge induction chromatography, or ii) anion exchange chromatography, or iii) cation exchange chromatography, or iv) hydrophobic interaction chromatography, whereby the first chromatography step is an affinity chromatography in case of polypeptides capable of interacting with metal ligands, the second chromatography step is not a hydroxylapatite chromatography step in case of polypeptides with an isoelectric point below 6.0, and the third chromatography step can be performed in flow-through mode with polypeptides having a low or high isoelectric point. | 07-25-2013 |
20130217623 | CONJUGATES OF INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR-1 AND POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) - A conjugate consisting of an insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-I) variant and one or two poly(ethylene glycol) group(s), characterized in that said IGF-I variant has an amino acid alteration at up to three amino acid positions 27, 37, 65, 68 of the wild-type IGF-I amino acid sequence so that one or two of said amino acids is/are lysine and amino acid 27 is a polar amino acid but not lysine, is conjugated via the primary amino group(s) of said lysine(s) and said poly(ethylene glycol) group(s) have an overall molecular weight of from 20 to 100 kDa is disclosed. This conjugate is useful for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's Disease. | 08-22-2013 |
20140220633 | PURIFICATION OF NOT-GLYCOSYLATED POLYPEPTIDES - The current invention reports a method for the purification of a not-glycosylated, heterologous polypeptide, which has been recombinantly produced in a prokaryotic cell, wherein the method comprises three chromatography steps of which the first chromatography step selected from i) hydrophobic charge induction chromatography, or ii) hydrophobic interaction chromatography, or iii) affinity chromatography, or iv) ion exchange chromatography, the second chromatography step is selected from i) anion exchange chromatography, or ii) cation exchange chromatography, or iii) hydroxylapatite chromatography, or iv) hydrophobic interaction chromatography, and the a third chromatography step is selected from i) hydrophobic charge induction chromatography, or ii) anion exchange chromatography, or iii) cation exchange chromatography, or iv) hydrophobic interaction chromatography, whereby the first chromatography step is an affinity chromatography in case of polypeptides capable of interacting with metal ligands, the second chromatography step is not a hydroxylapatite chromatography step in case of polypeptides with an isoelectric point below 6.0, and the third chromatography step can be performed in flow-through mode with polypeptides having a low or high isoelectric point. | 08-07-2014 |
20150044718 | ON-COLUMN ENZYMATIC CLEAVAGE - Herein is reported a method for obtaining a polypeptide by an immobilized metal ion affinity chromatography from a pro-polypeptide that comprise at its N- or C-terminus an metal ion affinity chromatography tag and a protease cleavage site comprising the step of recovering the polypeptide from the immobilized metal ion affinity chromatography column by incubating the bound pro-polypeptide with a protease, whereby the immobilized metal ion affinity chromatography material has been washed at least once with an urea solution. | 02-12-2015 |
20150056656 | METHOD FOR REDUCTION OF 1->2 READING FRAME SHIFTS - Herein is reported a method for the recombinant production of a polypeptide, which comprises the dipeptide AR, characterized in that the method comprises the recovering of the polypeptide from the cells or the cultivation medium of a cultivation of a cell comprising a nucleic acid encoding the polypeptide and thereby producing the polypeptide, whereby the dipeptide AR comprised in the polypeptide is encoded by the oligonucleotide gca cgt, or the oligonucleotide gcg cgt, or the oligonucleotide gcc cgt. | 02-26-2015 |
20150064746 | METHOD FOR REDUCTION OF 1->3 READING FRAME SHIFTS - Herein is reported a method for the recombinant production of a polypeptide, which comprises the tripeptide QKK, characterized in that the method comprises the step of recovering the polypeptide from the cells or the cultivation medium of a cultivation of a cell comprising a nucleic acid encoding the polypeptide and thereby producing the polypeptide, whereby the tripeptide QKK comprised in the polypeptide is encoded by the oligonucleotide cag aaa aaa or the oligonucleotide caa aag aaa. | 03-05-2015 |