Cilag International Gmbh

Covagen Ag

Elena Kage

Dragan Grabulovski

Julian Bertschinger

Richard Woods

Patricia Henne

Michela Silacci Melkko

Barbara Zubler

The present invention relates to a polypeptide binding to fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 isoforms 3b and 3c (FGFR3b and FGFR3c), wherein the polypeptide comprises an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of: (a) GVTLFVALYDYEVYGPTPMLSFHKGEKFQIL(X)(X)(X) (X)GPYWEARSL(X)TGETG(X)IPSNYVAPVDSIQ (SEQ ID NO: 1), wherein amino acid positions (X1) to (X) may be any amino acid sequence; (b) an amino acid sequence which is at least 95% identical to the amino acid sequence of (a), wherein the identity determination excludes amino acid positions (X) to (X) and provided that the amino acid sequence EVYGPTPM (SEQ ID NO: 2) in amino acid positions 12 to 19 of SEQ ID NO: 1 is conserved and the amino acids P and Y in amino acid positions 37 and 38 of SEQ ID NO: 1 are conserved; (c) GVTLFVALYDYEVMSTTALSFHKGEKF QILSQSPHGQYWEARSLTTGETG(X)IPSNYVAPVDSIQ (SEQ ID NO: 19), wherein the amino acid position (X) may be any amino acid; and (d) an amino acid sequence which is at least 95% identical to the amino acid sequence of (c), wherein the identity determination excludes amino acid position (X) and provided that the amino acid sequences EVMSTTA (SEQ ID NO: 20) in amino acid positions 12 to 18 of SEQ ID NO: 19 and SQSPH (SEQ ID NO: 21) in amino acid positions 31 to 35 of SEQ ID NO: 19 are conserved and the amino acids Q and Yin amino acid positions 37 and 38 of SEQ ID NO: 19 are conserved.

FGFR3 binding molecules

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Dietikon, Switzerland

Elena Kage