Creative Biomolecules, Inc.

A. Menarini S.a.s.

Gay-May Wu

Hermann Oppermann

Charles M Cohen

Roy H Pang

Peter C Keck

Roberto Crea

Gabriel Alvarado-Urbina

Protein analogues of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) are described. The analogues exhibit the proteolytic function of natural tPA and optionally fibrin binding activity, but are molecules, generally of lower molecular weight than natural tPA, designed for efficient expression in prokaryotic host cell systems. The analogues can comprise a catalytic fragment of tPA or a catalytic fragment of tPA linked to a polypeptide which stabilizes the catalytic fragment, provides for efficient expression of the fragment or confers a fibrin binding capability. Fibrin binding polypeptides can be a polypeptide fragments derived from tPA which embody the fibrin binding domain(s) of natural tPA or they can be an exogenous (non-tPA) polypeptides of eukaryotic or prokaryotic origin which exhibit fibrin binding affinity such as the antigen binding fragment of an antifibrin immunoglobulin or the B domain of protein A. Genetic constructs for expression of the analogues are also provided.

Protein analogues of tissue plasminogen activator

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