302 results about "Binding peptide" patented technology

An MHCl binding peptide design method based on evolutionary information and a Transform neural network algorithm relates to the field of protein design, and comprises the following steps: S1, extracting evolutionary information features of alleles of MHCII molecules and binding core sequences of binding peptides corresponding to the alleles, S2, establishing a neural network model based on fusion of a convolution module and a Transform module, and S3, establishing a neural network model based on fusion of the convolution module and the Transform module, the method comprises the following steps: S1, extracting two frequency characteristic tensors from S11 and S12, taking the two frequency characteristic tensors extracted in S11 and S12 as double inputs, and finally obtaining probability distribution of 20 amino acids at each position of each sequence, and S3, according to an output result of a neural network model, carrying out random sampling according to the probability, and generating a binding core sequence of MHCII-peptide meeting target distribution. According to the method, evolutionary information such as sequence position amino acid frequency (first-order conservative analysis) and combined frequency (second-order conservative analysis) of amino acid pairs is introduced to design a new short peptide sequence, the problem that short peptides cannot be designed based on structures is solved, and the reliability of short peptide sequence design based on evolutionary information is provided.

The invention relates to the technical field of immune carrier microspheres, in particular to an immune carrier microsphere constructed by individualized MHC-II combined polypeptide, a vaccine and application of the immune carrier microsphere and the vaccine. A core comprises microspheres constructed by a plurality of MHC-II binding polypeptides, sequences of the MHC-II binding polypeptides are obtained based on HLA gene typing results of an inoculator, and each HLA gene corresponds to at least one high-affinity MHC-II binding polypeptide; a shell is a glucan with sulfydryl or other polymer coating layer, and sulfydryl is used as a coupling group to be connected with an antigen to construct the vaccine. The method has the advantages that competition is avoided, inhibition is generated, a better immune effect is achieved, antibodies of high-titer carrier molecules are not generated, and cross reaction side effects are avoided. The carrier molecular diversity is reduced; side effects are avoided. And antibody immunity and cellular immunity functions are generated. The particle size of the microspheres is controllable, and the immunologic function can be achieved without adjuvants. The preparation process is simple to operate and good in repeatability.

The invention discloses a universal HLA antigen presentation prediction method based on a protein language model and a multi-modal neural network, which comprises the following steps: firstly, extracting verified HLA binding peptide fragment sequences from an immune epitope database, generating equivalent non-epitope peptide fragment sequences in combination with a protein database, and constructing an HLA-I class and HLA-II class balanced data set; then, extracting sequence embedding characteristics and contact graph structure information of the peptide fragment sequence by utilizing a protein language model; the method comprises the following steps: processing a protein map constructed by a contact map through a map neural network to obtain global structure features, and meanwhile, carrying out regional convolution and residual convolution processing on sequence embedding by adopting a one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1DCNN) to extract local context sequence features; the method effectively fuses sequence semantics and space structure information, improves the accuracy and generalization ability of HLA antigen presentation prediction, and is suitable for immune recognition modeling tasks under various HLA subtypes.

The invention discloses a human albumin binding peptide 1E3 and application of the human albumin binding peptide 1E3 in promoting purification of human albumin, and belongs to the technical field of polypeptides. The human albumin binding peptide comprises an amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO. 1; and / or an amino acid sequence of a fusion protein with the same function, which is obtained by connecting tag protein to the N terminal and / or C terminal of the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO.1. The human albumin binding peptide has extremely high affinity with human albumin and can be used for separating and purifying a human albumin solution, and the purity of the purified human albumin far exceeds the pharmacopoeia standard and can reach 99.99% or above. The method is good in safety and stable in process, and has a wide application prospect in the aspect of separation and purification of the human albumin.

The present invention relates to a conjugate for inhibiting viral replication, a preparation method therefor, and use thereof. The conjugate comprises a dimer or trimer of a portion that inhibits influenza virus neuraminidase (e.g. zanamivir, peramivir, oseltamivir, or an analog thereof), the dimer or trimer being conjugated to an Fc domain monomer, an Fc domain, an Fc-binding peptide, an albumin, or an albumin-binding peptide. The conjugate can be used to treat viral infections (e.g., influenza virus infections).

The invention provides a DHODH polypeptide degradation agent and application of the DHODH polypeptide degradation agent in preparation of drugs for preventing and / or treating DHODH-mediated diseases, and belongs to the technical field of biological medicines. The invention provides a DHODH polypeptide degradation agent. The DHODH polypeptide degradation agent comprises a cell-penetrating peptide, a DHODH binding peptide, a linker and an E3 ubiquitin ligase VHL binding peptide which are sequentially connected from an N terminal to a C terminal. The DHODH polypeptide degradation agent provided by the invention can be efficiently combined with DHODH protein, and has a good anti-tumor effect on the cellular level and the animal level. The compound has a good application prospect in preparation of drugs for preventing and treating DHODH-mediated diseases, overcomes the defects that existing drugs for treating DHODH-related diseases are single in variety and insufficient in curative effect, and has important significance.

The present invention discloses a method for predicting peptides that are capable of binding to HLA molecules that incorporate the crystal structure of HLA molecules. An improved HLA-specific peptide docking workflow is used to simulate the occupancy of a peptide on the binding pocket of an HLA molecule, and three models are trained to predict the binding of the peptide to HLA molecules. The results show that these models predict HLA-allele specific binding peptides with extremely high accuracy.

T cell responses are exquisitely antigen-specific and directed against peptide epitopes displayed by human leukocyte antigen (HLA) on the surface of presenting cells. In particular, class II HLA (HLA-II) is remarkably polymorphic, which allows for presentation of diverse peptide antigens to T cells, but also forms the basis for genetic associations with diverse immunopathologies across the spectrum of infectious disease and autoimmunity. Here, Applicants employ monoallelic immunopeptidomics to retrieve over 200,000 unique peptides presented by 41 HLA-II heterodimers covering major alleles across diverse ancestries. Applicants leveraged this expansive dataset to develop computational models that predict peptide antigens based on HLA-II binding properties and infer informative features of the protein antigens from which these peptides derive. Combining both peptide and (contextual) protein features, Applicants develop Context Aware Predictor of T cell Antigens (CAPTAn) to discover novel T cell epitopes from prokaryotes in the human microbiome and the viral pandemic pathogen SARS-COV-2.

The application provides a preparation method of a functionalized phage probe and application of the functionalized phage probe in detection of escherichia coli. The functionalized phage is a recombinant phage (M13KO7@SaBP) in which streptavidin binding peptide (SaBP) is fused and expressed at the N terminal of the main capsid protein P8 protein of M13K07 phage. In the application, the gene encoding SaBP (MDVEAWLGAR) is inserted into the N terminal of the P8 protein gene of M13K07 phage by site-directed mutagenesis to prepare M13K07@SaBP. The stable signal amplification is realized by using the abundant P8 protein (about 2700) of M13 phage and the super strong binding force of biotin-streptavidin, the interference of food sample matrix is reduced by combining the magnetic separation technology, and a detection method of escherichia coli with high sensitivity and small sample matrix interference is constructed.

The invention discloses a time-space controllable T cell adapter based on a DNA nanostructure as well as a construction method and application of the time-space controllable T cell adapter, and belongs to the field of DNA nanotechnology. The T cell adapter comprises a six-spiral-bundle paper folding structure, and an internal functional layer and an external shielding layer which are assembled on the six-spiral-bundle paper folding structure; the six-spiral bundle paper folding structure is formed by assembling 63 staple chains and M13 in total; the internal functional layer comprises nucleic acid-antibody conjugates which are combined on four spiral extension sequences at the top and the bottom of the six-spiral bundle origami structure, and hand-in-hand palindromic sequences which are combined on two spiral extension sequences at the left side and the right side; the outer shielding layer comprises a C-chain modified serum albumin binding peptide and a chain I, and the chain I comprises a pH-responsive i-motif switch. The T cell adapter disclosed by the invention has the space-time control capability of pH response and the potential of inducing TCR clustering to enhance T cell activation, and has huge potential in the aspect of improving the safety and effectiveness of T cell immunotherapy.

The present disclosure relates to the use of DNA-peptide hybrid molecules to detect target molecules in a sample. In some embodiments, the DNA-peptide hybrid molecules comprise target-specific binding peptides which selectively bind to a target molecule. Kits comprising DNA-peptide hybrid molecules are also provided.

Disclosed herein are effector domains. The effector domains may be used with, for example, Cas proteins and CRISPR-Cas systems. The effectors may be used in combination with a Cas protein to form a fusion protein. The effectors may also be used in combination with an antibody that binds to a peptide epitope, wherein the peptide epitope is fused to a Cas protein. The compositions and methods comprising the effectors may be used to modulate gene expression.

Provided herein are antigen binding proteins (ABPs) that bind HLA-PEPTIDE targets. Also disclosed are methods for identifying the HLA-PEPTIDE targets and methods of treating cancers and other diseases using the disclosed ABPs.

The present invention relates to an anti-apolipoprotein E4 (ApoE4) antibody and use thereof and, more specifically, to: an anti-ApoE4 antibody or an antigen-binding fragment thereof; a fusion in which the anti-ApoE4 antibody or an antigen-binding fragment thereof and one or more blood-brain barrier (BBB) receptor-binding peptides are bound; a method for preparing the fusion; and a composition for preventing or treating neurodegenerative diseases or metabolic diseases, comprising the anti-ApoE4 antibody or an antigen-binding fragment thereof, or the fusion.

Provided are an activity-regulatable IL-12 fusion protein and the use thereof. The fusion protein comprises a first structural unit, a second structural unit, and a third structural unit. The first structural unit is selected from a first Fc fragment, or a first antibody or an antigen-binding fragment thereof, wherein the first antibody or the antigen-binding fragment thereof has the binding activity to a tumor antigen or an immune checkpoint; the second structural unit is selected from a cleavable linker or a non-cleavable linker; and the third structural unit comprises an IL-12 cytokine or a functional fragment thereof. The second structural unit mediates the steric hindrance of the first structural unit to mask the activity of the IL-12 cytokine in the third structural unit, thereby reducing the toxic side effects of in-vivo use of the IL-12 cytokine. Compared with a wild-type IL-12, the fusion protein has the advantage of high safety, and can be further fused with an antibody Fab, scFv or VHH, an antigen-binding peptide or a recombinant protein, a polypeptide, etc. to obtain a multifunctional fusion protein that can be conditionally released and activated.

The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for treating viral infections. Compositions and methods for treating viral infections include conjugates comprising a viral neuraminidase inhibitor (e.g., zanamivir, peramivir, or an analog thereof) linked to an Fc monomer, an Fc domain, and an Fc binding peptide, albumin, or an albumin binding peptide. In particular, the conjugates are useful in the treatment of viral infections (e.g., influenza virus infections).

The application provides a toxicity-enhanced neurotoxin recombinant protein and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of biological medicine. The recombinant protein comprises a botulinum toxin type A receptor binding domain and at least one GM1 binding peptide inserted into the botulinum toxin type A receptor binding domain, and the recombinin protein can recognize and bind to ganglioside GM1. The short peptide sequence capable of binding to ganglioside GM1 is introduced into the botulinum toxin type A receptor binding domain to obtain the recombinant protein, the binding capacity of the recombinant protein to ganglioside GM1 is enhanced, the target recognition and binding capacity of the recombinant protein to the nerve cell membrane are improved, the overall affinity and endocytosis efficiency of the recombinant protein to the nerve cell are improved, and the neurotoxicity of the botulinum toxin is enhanced. The application not only improves the binding efficiency of BoNT / A in the in-vitro nerve cell model, but also shows a higher toxicity level in the functional verification, and shows a good clinical conversion prospect.

A method for generating binding peptides presented by any given Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) protein is presented. The method includes, given a peptide and an MHC protein pair, enabling a Reinforcement Learning (RL) agent to interact with and exploit a peptide mutation environment by repeatedly mutating the peptide and observing an observation score of the peptide, learning to form a mutation policy, via a mutation policy network, to iteratively mutate amino acids of the peptide to obtain desired presentation scores, and generating, based on the desired presentation scores, qualified peptides and binding motifs of MHC Class I proteins.

The present disclosure relates to collagen binding modification engineering of anti-inflammatory agents using collagen binding peptides (CBP) and vWF A3 to achieve targeted therapy of inflammatory diseases. Accordingly, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to compositions comprising an anti-inflammatory agent operably linked to an extracellular matrix (ECM) affinity peptide. Also disclosed are cytokines and anti-inflammatory agents, such as CD200, linked to serum proteins and / or ECM affinity peptides. Other aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods for treating an autoimmune or inflammatory disorder in a subject comprising administering to the subject a composition of the present disclosure.

Provided is an antibody capable of specifically binding to CD38, or an antigen-binding portion thereof. Also provided is a recombinant fusion protein, comprising: i) a CD38 antibody or an antigen-binding portion thereof; and ii) a CD47 binding peptide, wherein the CD47 binding peptide is linked to an N-terminus of a heavy chain or light chain of the CD38 antibody or the antigen-binding portion thereof, and the CD47 binding peptide is an extracellular Ig-like domain of a signal regulatory protein (SIRP).

This invention describes of a means of stabilizing lipophilic drugs for long-term storage by incorporating them into a “thermally stabilized nanoemulsion” that has a phase transition temperature that is at or below the body temperature of 37 C and above a storage temperature of 4-8 C. One or more lipid soluble drugs are incorporated into the nanoemulsion at an elevated temperature above the phase transition temperature of the nanoemulsion and then stabilized for extended storage by lowering the temperature to below its phase transition temperature. This causes the nanoemulsion to transform into solid lipid nanospheres entrapping the drug within the solid lipid matrix. Upon rewarming the lipid nanospheres they will reconvert to an oil-in-water nanoemulsion suitable for administration to the patient in need. This invention further discloses disease targeting thermally stabilized nanoemulsions utilizing targeting agents such as antibodies, aptamers, binding peptides, hormones, cytokines and the like, attached to the exterior of the nanodroplets comprising the nanoemulsion.

The invention relates to a ligand targeting neutrophil and neurons as well as a preparation method and application of the ligand. The ligand for targeting the neutrophil and the neuron is prepared from the following raw materials in parts by weight: 30 to 50 parts of DSPE-PEG-Tet1, 2 to 3 parts of ketal thiol with carboxyl groups at two ends and 30 to 50 parts of a neutrophil targeting ligand, the neutrophil targeting ligand is one or more of sialic acid, an anti-CD66b antibody, an anti-CD177 antibody, an anti-CD16b antibody, N-formylmethionine peptide (fMLF) and an analogue thereof, a CXCR1 / CXCR2 binding peptide, an integrin binding peptide, a selectin ligand and lectin. According to the invention, sequential targeting of neutrophile granulocytes-neurons can be realized, target cells of ischemic lesions can be accurately protected, and the improvement effect on the cerebral infarction area of MCAO rats can be obviously enhanced.

Disclosed herein, are peptides that bind urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptors. The peptides may comprise amino acid sequences of IPPWEAPK (SEQ ID NO: 1), DLAQCQTPTQAAPPTPVSPR (SEQ ID NO: 2), or LHVPLMPAQPAPPK (SEQ ID NO: 3), or retro-inverso amino acid sequences of the above enumerated sequences. Also described herein, are methods of administering compounds comprising peptides that bind urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptors to subjects for the treatment of ovarian cancer and improving wound closure.

The present technology generally relates to peptides that bind to the growth hormone receptor (GhR), to peptides that bind to the GhR and have antagonistic activity, and to compositions comprising such peptides.

Provided is an antibody capable of specifically binding to CD38, or an antigen-binding portion thereof. Also provided is a recombinant fusion protein, comprising: i) a CD38 antibody or an antigen-binding portion thereof; and ii) a CD47 binding peptide, wherein the CD47 binding peptide is linked to an N-terminus of a heavy chain or light chain of the CD38 antibody or the antigen-binding portion thereof, and the CD47 binding peptide is an extracellular Ig-like domain of a signal regulatory protein (SIRP).

The present invention provides novel antigen-binding peptides, such as antibodies or antibody fragments, that specifically bind to selective FXIa inhibitors and / or dual inhibitors of FXIa and plasma kallikrein.The present invention further relates to a method of reducing the antithrombotic effect of FXIa inhibitors by administering to a subject a pharma- ceutical effective amount of the antigen-binding peptides disclosed herein.In addition, the present invention provides detection reagents and methods for detecting FXIa inhibitor levels in biological samples. TIFF2024505390000129.tif113125

A system for binding peptide search for immunotherapy is presented. The system includes employing a deep neural network to predict a peptide presentation given Major Histocompatibility Complex allele sequences and peptide sequences, training a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) to reconstruct peptides by converting the peptide sequences into continuous embedding vectors, running a Monte Carlo Tree Search to generate a first set of positive peptide vaccine candidates, running a Bayesian Optimization search with the trained VAE and a Backpropagation search with the trained VAE to generate a second set of positive peptide vaccine candidates, using a sampling from a Position Weight Matrix (sPWM) to generate a third set of positive peptide vaccine candidates, screening and merging the first, second, and third sets of positive peptide vaccine candidates, and outputting qualified peptides for immunotherapy from the screened and merged sets of positive peptide vaccine candidates to support downstream clinical decision making.

The present disclosure relates to methods of producing and screening libraries of disulfide rich proteins, for instance to identify binding peptides specific for a target molecule. In some embodiments, the binding peptides comprise disulfide rich proteins. Also provided herein are methods of producing and screening libraries comprising disulfide-rich proteins and molecular chaperones. The present disclosure also relates to methods of producing or expressing soluble disulfide rich proteins, for instance using a suitable host cell. Also provided herein are compositions comprising soluble disulfide rich proteins.

The present invention relates to compositions and methods of GDNF fusion polypeptides, wherein the GDNF fusion polypeptides include an Fc domain, an albumin-binding peptide, a fibronectin domain, or a human serum albumin, joined to a GDNF variant either directly or by the way of a linker. The GDNF fusion polypeptides may used to treat metabolic diseases, such as obesity and Type-1 and Type-2 diabetes, and neurological diseases, such as Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Parkinson's disease.

The invention relates to β-catenin-binding peptides and peptidomimetics comprising an amino acid sequence ESILDEHXQRVW or EYPESILDEHXQRVWR, wherein X is L, M, I, F, Y, W or C, or a variant of said amino acid sequences, and to uses thereof.