Super Versatile Method for Imparting New Binding Specificity to Antibody

    公开(公告)号:US20210317233A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-14

    申请号:US17264496

    申请日:2019-07-31

    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an efficient and versatile method for granting an additional binding activity to an antibody by inserting a peptide sequence into the antibody. The present invention provides a method of granting a binding ability to a second target molecule to an antibody, comprising inserting an internal peptide sequence of a cyclic peptide into an Fc region of the antibody, wherein the cyclic peptide has the binding ability to the second target molecule different from a first target molecule to be recognized by the antibody.

    Fragment antibody and method for crystallizing protein using fragment antibody

    公开(公告)号:US10513562B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-12-24

    申请号:US16345639

    申请日:2017-11-07

    Inventor: Junichi Takagi

    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a fragment antibody which can be conveniently produced as one having antigen-binding activity, and which has a greater ability to crystallize itself alone or as a complex with an antigen molecule than that of Fv-clasp (v1) even in a case where the fragment antibody is obtained in an E. coli expression system. The present invention relates to a fragment antibody including a complex of a peptide (VH(112C)-SARAH) in which an N-terminus of a SARAH domain is linked to a C-terminus of a heavy chain domain (VH region) of an antibody, and an amino acid residue of antibody residue 112 according to Chothia numbering scheme in the VH region is mutated to cysteine; and a peptide (VL-SARAH(37C)) in which an N-terminus of a SARAH domain is linked to a C-terminus of a light chain domain (VL region) of an antibody, and an amino acid residue at position 13 from the C-terminus in the SARAH domain is mutated to cysteine.

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