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Anti-hepatitis b virus antibodies and use thereof

a technology of hepatitis b virus and antibody, applied in the field of molecular virology and immunology, can solve the problems of less sources of high-potency plasma, no definitively significant and effective active immunotherapy drug/vaccine that can be used to treat chronic hbv infection, and high price, so as to effectively eliminate hbv and hbv-infected cells, neutralize the virulence of hbv, and reduce the serum level of hbv

Pending Publication Date: 2022-08-11
XIAMEN UNIV +1
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Benefits of technology

The present invention is an antibody that can specifically recognize and bind to the HBsAg (a marker for hepatitis B) and neutralize its virulence. It can also reduce the levels of HBV DNA and HBsAg in the body and effectively eliminate infected cells. Moreover, it can activate the immune system to regenerate a response against HBV, increasing the likelihood of clinical cure. The antibody has enhanced antigen clearance and suppression time and can be used to prevent and treat hepatitis B infections. It also has pH-dependent antigen binding properties and can reduce the frequency and dosage of administration.

Problems solved by technology

However, the treatment with the above-mentioned drugs alone or in combination cannot completely eliminate the HBV virus in the infected persons, and the response rate of HBsAg negative conversion or HBsAg seroconversion (a sign of complete HBV virus clearance in the infected person) caused thereby is usually less than 5% (Kwon H et al., ibid.).
Currently, there is no definitely significant and effective active immunotherapy drug / vaccine that can be used to treat chronic HBV infection.
However, the direct application of HBIG in the treatment of HBV-infected patients (for example, CHB patients) has no obvious effect, and it has many limitations such as fewer sources for high-potency plasma, high price, unstable nature, and potential safety issues.

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eening of pH-Dependent Anti-HBsAg Antibodies

1.1 Determination of Mutation Sites for pH-Dependent Antibody Modification

[0191]The anti-HBV humanized antibody 162 (detailed in Chinese patent application 201610879693.5) developed in the laboratory was used as the parent antibody, and its variable region were modified for pH-dependent antigen binding. As shown in FIG. 1, the modified 162 could maintain the antigen-binding activity under neutral conditions, but its antigen-binding activity under acidic conditions was greatly reduced. The dissociated modified 162 could bind to intracellular FcRn so as to return to the plasma and bind to the antigen again, so that one molecule of the modified 162 with pH-dependent antigen binding ability could repeatedly bind and neutralize a plurality of molecules of antigen. Histidine was protonated under acidic conditions and was a key amino acid to bring the pH-dependent antigen binding properties. The 162 Fab had an analyzed crystal structure, the anal...

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on of pH-Dependent Anti-HBsAg Antibodies

2.1 Construction of Recombinant Vector for Eukaryotic Expression

[0195]In the present invention, a large amount of antibody recombination needed to be carried out, so it was necessary to construct a set of light and heavy chain vectors that can efficiently recombine antibodies. In the present invention, the existing eukaryotic expression vector pTT5 in the laboratory was specially modified to construct a set of light and heavy chain recombinant vectors for double plasmid co-transfection. MGWSCIILFLVATATGVHS (SEQ ID NO: 54) was used as the signal peptide for the light and heavy chains. The sequences encoding the constant regions of the human antibody light and heavy chains were separately ligated to the downstream of signal peptide to construct a set of eukaryotic expression vectors pTT5-CH, pTT5-Cκ and pTT5-Cλ that facilitated antibody recombination.

[0196]The six scFv antibodies obtained in 1.3 were used to amplify the light and heavy chain var...

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Analysis and Functional Evaluation of pH-Dependent Anti-HB sAg Antibodies

[0200]Through the method of Example 1, six strains of pH-dependent phage antibodies that bound to HBsAg were obtained by preliminary screening, named C26, C27, C32, D3, D4 and D5, respectively. Furthermore, the small-scale eukaryotic expression and purification of the 6 strains of phage antibodies were carried out by the method of Example 2. The VH and VL amino acid sequences of the 6 antibodies were shown in Table 4 below. In addition, the CDR sequences of the 6 antibodies were determined, and the CDR amino acid sequences of the heavy chain variable regions and the light chain variable regions thereof were shown in Table 5. The mutation sites that endowed C26, C27, C32, D3, D4 and D5 with pH-dependent antigen binding properties to HBsAg were summarized in FIG. 5.

TABLE 4Amino acid sequences of C26 / C27 / C32 / D3 / D4 / D5 light and heavy chain variable regionsSequence SEQ nameID NOAmino acid sequence C26 VH3EVQLQESGPGL...

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Abstract

Antibodies (especially humanized antibodies) against the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), a nucleic acid molecule encoding same, a method for preparing same, and a pharmaceutical composition containing same. The anti-HBsAg antibodies have a higher binding affinity to HBsAg at a neutral pH than at an acidic pH, thereby significantly enhancing virus clearance efficiency and prolonging virus inhibition time. The antibodies and pharmaceutical composition may be used to prevent and / or treat HBV infections or diseases related to HBV infection (such as hepatitis B) for use in neutralizing the virulence of HBV in the body of a subject (such as a human) to reduce a serum level of HBV DNA and / or HBsAg in the body of the subject, or to activate a humoral immune response of a subject (such as a person infected with chronic HBV or a patient who has chronic hepatitis B) against HBV.

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TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates to the field of molecular virology and immunology, especially the field of treatment of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Specifically, the present invention relates to an antibody against hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg) and a nucleic acid encoding the antibody, and a use thereof. The anti-HBsAg antibody of the present invention has a higher binding affinity for HBsAg at neutral pH than at acidic pH. The novel antibody can be used for the prevention and / or treatment of an HBV infection or a disease associated with HBV infection (for example, hepatitis B), for neutralizing a virulence of HBV in a subject (for example, a human), or for reducing a serum level of HBV DNA and / or HBsAg in a subject. Therefore, the present invention further relates to a use of the antibody and variant thereof in the manufacture of a pharmaceutical composition for the prevention and / or treatment of an HBV infection or a disease related to an HBV ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): C07K16/08A61P31/20
CPCC07K16/082A61K2039/505A61P31/20A61P1/16C07K2317/565C07K2317/92C12N15/85C07K2317/24C12P21/02C07K2317/30C07K2317/622C07K2317/56C07K2317/72G01N33/5764A61P31/12C07K2317/515A61K2039/575C07K2317/52C07K2317/567C07K2317/76
Inventor LUO, WENXINJIANG, YICHAOYU, CHAOCHEN, XIAOQINGTANG, JIXIANYUAN, QUANZHANG, TIANYINGXIA, NINGSHAO
Owner XIAMEN UNIV