Merck Patent Gmbh

Evercyte Gmbh

Gerhard Stadlmayr

Gordana Wozniak-Knopp

Johannes Grillari

Florian Rüker

Florian Rueker

Stephan Dickgiesser

Madhusudhan Reddy Bobbili

Jakub Rybka

Nicolas Rasche

Stefan Vogt

Provided herein is a method of producing a protein comprising a target-specific extravesicular domain (TED) of an extracellular vesicle (EV) surface protein comprising modifying a polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding the extravesicular domain (ED) of an EV surface protein by a mutagenesis method within at least one modified region within the ED amino acid sequence with a length of 3-20 contiguous amino acids flanked by regions of the wild-type ED sequence at its N-terminus and C-terminus, to incorporate a target binding site within the ED, thereby producing a repertoire of polynucleotides encoding a variety of TEDs, each comprising a different target binding site, and selecting a TED specifically recognizing a predetermined target, and producing the protein comprising the selected TED.

Target-specific extracellular vesicles

A specific antigen-binding member (ABM) comprising a specific antigen-binding moiety and an antibody Fc region comprising a CH2 domain, which is engineered for a cysteine substitution at position 108 and/or 113, wherein numbering is according to the IMGT, and wherein the antibody Fc region does not comprise an antigen-binding CH3 domain; and an ABM conjugate (ABMC) comprising the ABM and at least one heterologous molecule covalently conjugated to one or both of the cysteines at positions 108 and 113 of the CH2 domain.

Cysteine engineered antigen-binding molecules

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Gerhard Stadlmayr