150 results about "FGF21" patented technology

The present invention relates to chimeric proteins that include an N-terminus coupled to a C-terminus, where the N-terminus includes an N-terminal portion of fibroblast growth factor 21 (“FGF21”) and the C-terminus includes a C-terminal portion of fibroblast growth factor 19 (“FGF19”). The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions including chimeric proteins according to the present invention, as well as methods for treating a subject suffering from diabetes, obesity, or metabolic syndrome, methods of treating a subject in need of increased FGF21-βKlotho-FGF receptor complex formation, methods of causing increased FGF21 receptor agonist-βKlotho-FGF receptor complex formation, and methods of screening for compounds with enhanced binding affinity for the βKlotho-FGF receptor complex involving the use of chimeric proteins of the present invention.

The invention relates to variants and fusions of fibroblast growth factor 19 (FGF19), variants and fusions of fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), fusions of FGF19 and/or FGF21, and variants or fusions of FGF19 and/or FGF21 proteins and peptide sequences (and peptidomimetics), having one or more activities, such as glucose lowering activity, and methods for and uses in treatment of hyperglycemia and other disorders.

The invention relates to the identification of new polypeptide and protein variants of fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) that have improved pharmaceutical properties. Also disclosed are methods for treating FGF21-associated disorders, including metabolic conditions.

The invention relates to variants and fusions of fibroblast growth factor 19 (FGF19), variants and fusions of fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), fusions of fibroblast growth factor 19 (FGF19) and/or fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), and variants or fusions of fibroblast growth factor 19 (FGF19) and/or fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) proteins and peptide sequences (and peptidomimetics), having one or more activities, such as glucose lowering activity, and methods for and uses in treatment of hyperglycemia and other disorders.

Provided herein are methods of modulating bile acid homeostasis or treating a bile-acid related or associated disorder, comprising using variants and fusions of fibroblast growth factor 19 (FGF19), variants and fusions of fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), fusions of FGF19 and/or FGF21, and variants or fusions of FGF19 and/or FGF21 proteins and peptide sequences (and peptidomimetics), in combination with agents effective in modulating bile acid homeostasis or treating a bile-acid related or associated disorder.

Provided herein are variants and fusions of fibroblast growth factor 19 (FGF19), variants and fusions of fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), fusions of FGF19 and/or FGF21, and variants or fusions of FGF19 and/or FGF21 proteins and peptide sequences (and peptidomimetics), having one or more activities, such as glucose lowering activity, and methods for and uses in treatment of hyperglycemia and other disorders.

The invention provides a fusion protein used for detecting and treating human I-type diabetes mellitus and human II-type diabetes mellitus and obesity as well as a preparation and an application of the fusion protein. The fusion protein contains a human FGF21 or a mutant thereof and a human IgG2-Fc (hinge region -CH2-CH3) or a human IgG2-Fc mutant ( T250Q/M428L and T307Q/N434A), can improve the living condition of the obesity patients, reduce the blood sugar level of diabetics, effectively reduce aggregation and degradation of the FGF21 protein, and meanwhile prolong in vivo half-life period of the FGF21, and especially through the fusion of the FGF21 and the mutant and the IgG-Fc (T250Q/M428L and T307Q/N434A) mutant, the affinity with FcRn is enhanced, and in vivo half-life period of the FGF21 is further prolonged.

The invention provides a method for producing FGF21. The invention first designs and synthetizes full-length FGF21 nucleotide sequence which is integrated with secreted signal peptide to be structured into an expression carrier capable of secreting and expressing FGF21 protein; the expression carrier is led into an appropriate host cell; under the guidance of the secreted signal peptide, FGF21 is expressed in cell periplasm, so that the purification procedure is convenient, the finished product ratio is improved and the mass production of rhFGF-21 becomes possible.

The invention provides, inter alia, methods for treating cancer and vascular disease, compositions for treating cancer and vascular disease, and methods and compositions for diagnosing and/or detecting cancer and vascular disease.

The invention relates to a synergistic bifunctional protein for regulating blood sugar and lipid. The synergistic bifunctional protein comprises a human GLP-1 analog and human FGF21. In one aspect, the invention provides a method for preparing the synergistic bifunctional protein, and on the other hand, the invention also provides an application of the synergistic bifunctional protein for treatment of type 2 diabetes, obesity, dyslipidemia, fatty liver disease and/or metabolism syndrome drugs. The synergistic bifunctional protein provided by the invention can synergistically regulate blood sugar and lipid levels in vivo, and meet the multiple needs of hypoglycemia, alleviation of liver fatty degeneration, weight reduction and improvement of circulating lipid metabolism disorder in type 2 diabetic patients.

The invention relates to the use of a Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 (FGF21) compound and a Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 (GLP-1) compound in combination for the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of diabetes, more in particular type 2 diabetes, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising certain FGF21 and GLP-1 compounds in combination, together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The combination has a significant effect on parameters of relevance for diabetes type 2, viz. on the viability of beta cells ex vivo in the presence of free fatty acids, on caspase activity of beta cells ex vivo (a measure of cell apoptosis), and a blood glucose lowering effect on db/db mice in vivo.

The invention relates to variants and fusions of fibroblast growth factor 19 (FGF19), variants and fusions of fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), fusions of FGF19 and/or FGF21, and variants or fusions of FGF19 and/or FGF21 proteins and peptide sequences (and peptidomimetics), having one or more activities, such as bile acid homeostasis modulating activity, and methods for and uses in treatment of bile acid and other disorders.