Amino acid substituted molecules

a technology of amino acid and substituted molecules, applied in the field of amino acid substituted molecules, can solve the problems of largely ineffective and inefficient modification of molecules, including proteins, presently

Undetermined Publication Date: 2008-04-24
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[0030] In certain embodiments, one or more properties of the molecule are altered wherein said properties are selected from the group consisting of: toxicity, biodistribution, structural properties, spectroscopic properties, chemical or photochemical properties, catalytic ability, serum half-life, shelf half-life, ability to react with other molecules covalently or non-covalently, stability, activity, conformation, substrate specificity, target binding affinity, antigen-binding ability, thermostability, resistance to at least one protease, tolerance to at least one non-aqueous environment, glycosylation pattern, phosphorylation pattern, disulfide bonding, protease cleavage site location, metal binding ability, co-factor binding ability, cross-linking ability, solubility, cysteinylation, deamidation, acetylation, biotinylation, oxidation, glutathionylation, sulphonation, immunogenicity, tissue penetration, fluorescence pegylation, multimerization ability, facility of purification, catalytic activity, vaccine stability, ability to function as a vaccine, redox potential, patient tolerance to a protein, increased efficacy of a protein in a patient, and improved delivery of a protein or protein product in a patient.

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Modifying molecules, including proteins, is presently largely inefficient and ineffective, with large batch-to-batch variations in quality and quantity produced.

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Design of Site-Specific PEGylated Proteins

[0465] The design of a pegylated GM-CSF, Erythropoietin (EPO), Human Growth Hormone, Phenylalanine hydroxylase, urikase, Factor VII, follitropin, G-CSF, or other target molecule may comprise a multi-step process. In the case of EPO, which wild type sequence contains two methionine amino acids—including one at the amino terminus, only one methionine would require substitution. In the case of G-CSF, the wild type sequence does not contain any arginine residues. Thus, an arginine residue could be introduced at any desirable location in the molecule and subsequently substituted or replaced with a non-natural amino acid. Likewise, for Human Growth Hormone, the wild type sequence only contains a single tryptophan residue, phenylalanine hydroxylase contains only 3 methionine residues and 3 tryptophan residues, and follitropin contains only 5 methionine residues.

[0466] In an optional first step, existing specific target wild type amino a...

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Site-Specific PEGylation of GM-CSF

[0471] A GM-CSF molecule contains four wild type methionine amino acid residues at positions 36, 46, 79 and 80. There are at least two possibilities for inserting a site-specific methionine analog into GM-CSF for use as an anchoring residue for pegylation.

[0472] One option would be to retain one of the four methionine residues in the GM-CSF molecule and replace the three other methionine residues with other naturally occurring amino acid residues. Selecting which three methionine residues will be replaced and / or selecting which naturally occurring amino acid residues shall replace the three wild type methionine residues may be determined, in part, by evaluating energy calculations as described herein. Additionally, replacement amino acids may be selected by alignment of nucleic acid or amino acid sequences of related genes or proteins, respectively. The sequences may be from the same species or different species.

[0473] A second option w...

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Energy Calculations for Site-Specific PEGylated GM-CSF

[0474] Energy calculations for the target molecule discussed in the previous Example may be conducted by any known method, some of which are described herein. The sequence and number of energy calculations may be performed in a number of ways. For example, a point mutation calculation may be performed for each selected methionine position (which include positions 36, 46, 79 and 80). Alternatively or additionally, combination mutation calculations may be performed for all four methionines such that one methionine is retained in its wild type position, while the other three methionine residues will be varied simultaneously to other naturally occurring amino acids. In this manner, it may be determined whether all four methionine residues will be replaced with other amino acid residues, or if one methionine residue will be retained while the other three are replaced with other naturally occurring amino acid residues.

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Abstract

The invention provides compositions and methods of identifying, modifying and producing modified target molecules, including therapeutic molecules by modification with non-natural amino acids. Certain aspects of the invention include methods of adding a chemical moiety to a target molecule, and the compositions resulting therefrom. Certain aspects of the invention also relate to kits for identifying, modifying and producing modified target molecules described herein.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION [0001] This application is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11 / 743,608, filed on May 2, 2007, and claims the benefit of the filing date of U.S. Provisional Application 60 / 796,752, filed on May 2, 2006, U.S. Provisional Application 60 / 796,907, filed on May 2, 2006, and U.S. Provisional Application 60 / 796,701, filed on May 2, 2006, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] 1. Field of the Invention [0003] Molecules, including proteins, may be engineered through modification of the structural, catalytic and / or binding properties, as well as for the de novo design of artificial molecules. Molecular or protein engineering relies on an efficient recognition mechanism for incorporating desired amino acid residues in specifically chosen locations of the protein sequence or structural region. This process has been very useful for designing new macromolecules...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A61K38/00A61P43/00C12N15/11C12N5/06C12P21/04
CPCA61K38/00C07K1/006C07K1/1077A61K47/48215C07K14/72C12P21/02C07K14/565A61K47/60A61P43/00Y02A50/30
Inventor GRABSTEIN, KENNETH H.WANG, AIJUNNAIRN, NATALIE WINBLADEGRADDIS, THOMAS JAMES
Owner ALLOZYNE
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