Bispecific antibody exhibiting increased alternative fviii-cofactor-function activity

a cofactor and antibody technology, applied in the field of bispecific antibodies with enhanced can solve the problem that bypassing formulations cannot sufficiently stop bleeding, and achieve the effect of enhancing fviii cofactor function substitution activity

Inactive Publication Date: 2019-06-20
CHUGAI PHARMA CO LTD
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The present invention is a patent that describes the inventors' discovery of new variants of a drug called ACE9 10 that can enhance the function of FVIII, a protein that is important for blood clotting. The inventors also describe how they used human antibody libraries to find new light chains with different sequences that can also function as FVIII cofactors, and they identified specific amino acid substitutions that improve this function. This information can be used to develop better versions of the drug.

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Therefore, in some cases, bypassing formulations cannot sufficiently stop the bleeding.

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Screening of Variant Antibodies for Improvement of FVIII Cofactor Function-Substituting Activity

[0401]ACE910 is a humanized IgG4 antibody showing FVIII cofactor function-substituting activity and comprising anti-FIX(a) and anti-FX domains, the antibody being composed of two types of heavy chains (Q499 and J327) which recognize FIX(a) and FX, respectively, and commonly shared L chains (L404) (heavy chain SEQ ID NOs: 45 and 46, and light chain SEQ ID NO: 47). The present inventors comprehensively introduced amino acid modifications into L404 by methods known to those skilled in the art such as PCR for introducing mutations and performed a large-scale screening of FVIII cofactor function-substituting activity, thereby discovering L-chain amino acid substitutions that improve the FVIII cofactor function-substituting activity of ACE910.

[0402]Substitution variants were produced by modifying amino acids in all of the CDRs of L404 (SEQ ID NO: 47) in the L chain of the anti-FX antibody side ...

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Obtaining Novel L Chains that are Compatible with Each H Chain of ACE910

[0405]As indicated in Example 1, FVIII cofactor function-substituting activity was able to be improved by comprehensively modifying amino acids in L404, which is the commonly shared L chain of ACE910. As another method of improving the FVIII cofactor function-substituting activity of ACE910, a conceivable method is that of obtaining from human antibody libraries novel L chains having sequences completely different from that of the commonly shared L chain, which are to be paired with the respective H chains of the anti-FIX(a) antibody and the anti-FX antibody (Q499 and J327).

[0406]With reference to methods known to those skilled in the art, specifically the method of Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, (2000), 275, 2: 553-557 and such, the present inventors newly produced a library of antibodies in which the L chain portion of the ACE910 antibody has been substituted with that from a human L chai...

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Production of Variants of the Novel L Chain-Comprising Bispecific Antibodies

[0409]To improve the FVIII cofactor function-substituting activity of novel L chain-comprising bispecific antibodies obtained in Example 2, amino acid substitution modifications were introduced into QNK131 (light chain SEQ ID NO: 13) which is a novel L chain of an anti-FIX(a) antibody, to obtain QAL187 (light chain SEQ ID NO: 42) and QAL201 (light chain SEQ ID NO: 43). Similarly, amino acid substitution modifications were introduced into JNL095 (light chain SEQ ID NO: 31) which is a novel L chain of an anti-FX antibody, to obtain JYL280 (light chain SEQ ID NO: 44). In one example, a bispecific antibody (Q499 / QAL201 / J327 / JYL280) composed of an anti-FIX(a) antibody comprising heavy chain Q499 and light chain QAL201 and an anti-FX antibody comprising heavy chain J327 and light chain JYL280 was expressed and purified by a method known to those skilled in the art, and the result of measuring its FVIII cofactor fu...

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Abstract

The present invention provides light chain amino acid substitutions that improve the FVIII cofactor function-substituting activity of ACE910 (Emicizumab), novel light chains showing FVIII cofactor function-substituting activity, and heavy chain amino acid substitutions that improve the FVIII cofactor function-substituting activity of novel light chain-containing bispecific antibodies.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is the National Stage of International Application Serial No. PCT / JP2017 / 027152, filed on Jul. 27, 2017, which claims the benefit of Japanese Application Serial No. 2016-150769, filed on Jul. 29, 2016.TECHNICAL FIELD[0002]The present invention relates to antibodies having enhanced FVIII cofactor function-substituting activity, pharmaceutical formulations comprising such antibodies as active ingredients, methods for producing such antibodies, and such. More specifically, the present invention relates to bispecific antibodies having FVIII cofactor function-substituting activity higher than that of ACE910 (Emicizumab).BACKGROUND ART[0003]Hemophilia A is a bleeding abnormality caused by a hereditary decrease or deficiency of blood coagulation factor VIII (FVIII) function. Hemophilia A patients are generally administered with an FVIII formulation for the bleeding (on-demand administration). In recent years, FVIII formulations ...

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IPC IPC(8): C07K16/36C07K16/46
CPCC07K16/36C07K16/468C07K2317/565C07K2317/31C07K2317/24C07K2317/10C07K2317/40C12N15/09C07K16/46
InventorIGAWA, TOMOYUKITERANISHI, YURIKATO, KAZUKIKOGA, HIKARU
OwnerCHUGAI PHARMA CO LTD