Jcr Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.

Hiroyuki Sonoda

Kenichi Takahashi

Yuri Koshimura

Miroslav Matev

Atsushi Sugimura

Shinji Kakimoto

Hideto Morimoto

Masafumi Kinoshita

Tsuyoshi Fukui

Yukichi Hatano

Katsuya Daimon

Haruna Takagi

Yoshiko Yoshii

The present invention provides a fusion protein of BDNF and an anti-human transferrin receptor antibody, in which in a heavy chain variable region of the antibody, (a) CDR1 includes an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 66 or SEQ ID NO: 67, (b) CDR2 includes an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 13 or SEQ ID NO: 14, and (c) CDR3 includes an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 15 or SEQ ID NO: 16.

Fusion protein including BDNF

Provided is an anti-human transferrin receptor antibody or an analog thereof, wherein in the heavy chain variable region of the antibody, (a) CDR1 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 62 or SEQ ID NO: 63, (b) CDR2 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 13 or SEQ ID NO: 14, and (c) CDR3 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 15 or SEQ ID NO: 16, and an analogue thereof.

Anti-human transferrin receptor antibody capable of penetrating blood-brain barrier

Disclosed is a fusion protein containing a brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). The fusion protein is a fusion protein of BDNF and a specific range of human anti-transferrin receptor antibody, which makes BDNF administered into the blood able to pass through the blood-brain barrier.

Fusion proteins containing a BDNF and an anti-human transferrin receptor antibody

Disclosed is a method for production of a fusion protein in which an antibody and a lysosomal enzyme are fused. The method comprises; (a) a step of culturing mammalian cells producing the fusion protein in a serum-free medium to let the mammalian cells secrete the fusion protein in the culture medium, (b) a step of collecting culture supernatant by removing the mammalian cells from the culture medium, and (c) a step of purifying the fusion protein from the culture supernatant by using a column chromatography employing as a solid phase a material to which a substance having affinity for the fusion protein has been bound, a column chromatography employing as a solid phase a material having affinity for the phosphate group, and a size exclusion column chromatography.

Method for producing antibody fusion protein

Disclosed are a means to convert compounds having physiological or pharmacological activity and unable to pass through the blood-brain barrier into a form that allows them to pass through the blood-brain barrier, and compounds converted thereby. The means is an anti-human transferrin receptor antibody and the converted compounds are molecular conjugates between physiologically active protein or pharmacologically active low-molecular-weight compounds and an anti-human transferrin receptor antibody.

Anti-human transferrin receptor antibody permeating blood-brain barrier

Disclosed is a method for production of recombinant human DNase I which is of such high purity as may be directly used as a medical drug. The method includes the steps of; culturing recombinant DNase I-producing mammalian cells, subjecting a culture supernatant to an anion-exchange column chromatography, subjecting to a column chromatography employing as solid phase a material having affinity for phosphate group, subjecting to a cation-exchange column chromatography, and subjecting to a dye affinity column chromatography.

Production for recombinant human DNase I

Disclosed are a novel anti-human transferrin receptor antibody comprising an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 4, 5, 6 and 7 that can pass through the blood-brain barrier, a fusion protein comprising a protein necessary to be brought into function in the central nervous system and the antibody, and method of their production. The fusion protein comprises amino acid sequences of an anti-human transferrin receptor antibody that recognizes an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs:1, 2, and 3, and of other protein that is bound thereto on the C-terminal side.

Anti-human transferrin receptor antibody that passes through blood-brain barrier

Disclosed is an efficient method for production of aminopeptidase. The method comprises either transforming host bacteria with an aminopeptidase gene and with a neutral protease gene, or transforming some part of host bacteria with an aminopeptidase gene while transforming the other part of the host bacteria with a neutral protease gene, culturing in a medium the hose bacteria transformed with the aminopeptidase gene and with the neutral protease gene, or culturing a mixture of the host bacteria transformed with the aminopeptidase gene and the host bacteria transformed with the neutral protease gene, to let both the aminopeptidase and the neutral protease be expressed, and collecting the aminopeptidase thus produced from the culture mixture.

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Kobe, Japan

Hiroyuki Sonoda