Genefrontier Corporation

The University of Tokyo

Keio University

Chiba University

Kanehisa Kojoh

Takashi Kanamori

Akira Miyakoshi

Shizue Katoh

Mikiko Nakamura

Kumiko Tsuihiji

Takuya Ueda

Yuki Hayami

Yasunori Okada

Satsuki Mochizuki

Tomoe Fuse

Shizue Kato

Toshinori Nakayama

Masayuki Shimoda

Chiaki Iwamura

The present invention provides an antibody that specifically binds to human CD69, has an activity to suppress allergic inflammation, and has cross-reactivity with mouse CD69. In addition, the present invention provides an antibody having high binding affinity for human CD69 and an activity to suppress allergic inflammations. The antibody of the present invention can be a human antibody.

Anti-human CD69 antibody, and use thereof for medical purposes

The present invention provides an antibody that specifically binds to human aggrecanase, and inhibits enzymatic activity of the human aggrecanase. In one embodiment, aggrecanase is ADAMTS4. In one embodiment, the antibody recognizes a particular epitope in human ADAMTS4, and inhibits not only aggrecanase activity of human ADAMTS4 but also aggrecanase activity of human ADAMTS5. In addition, the present invention also provides use of said antibody in the prophylaxis or treatment of the progression of arthritis.

Human antibody against aggrecanase-type ADAMTS species for therapeutics of aggrecanase-related diseases

The present invention provides an antibody having an activity to specifically bind to human membrane-anchored form ADAM28 at an epitope in a region of the 524th-659th amino acids in the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2. In addition, the present invention provides a drug delivery vehicle for delivering a drug to a cell or tissue that expresses human membrane-anchored form ADAM28, which contains the antibody.

Anti-human membrane-type ADAM28 antibody

The invention provides a method of producing a protein multimer-nucleic acid complex comprising a protein multimer and any one target component of the protein multimer. A nucleic acid encoding the target component is subjected to in vitro translation to provide a translation product containing a target component-nucleic acid complex of the target component and the nucleic acid encoding the target component. A nucleic acid encoding a non-target component constituting the protein multimer together with the target component is translated into the non-target component by adding the nucleic acid encoding the non-target component to the previously provided translation product to provide the non-target component. The non-target component then is associated with the target component contained in the target component-nucleic acid complex to form a protein multimer, thus affording the protein multimer-nucleic acid complex of the protein multimer and the nucleic acid encoding the target component.

Efficient method for displaying protein multimer

According to the present invention, a composition possessing cell-free protein synthesis activity with reduced contaminating lipopolysaccharide, and a method for producing a protein using the same are provided. When ribosome display is performed using the composition and method for protein production of the present invention, the background that is caused by non-specific binding is reduced, so that a nucleic acid that encodes the desired polypeptide can be selected with high accuracy and high efficiency.

Composition for synthesizing protein with reduced lipopolysaccharide contamination, method for producing protein using said composition

Provided is an antigen-binding protein prepared merely by a method of in vitro selection using the RNF8-FHA domain, which has no intramolecular disulfide bond and functions in cells as it is. One to four loops extending from the FHA domain are randomized, and a recognition site for a target molecule is artificially created on the FHA domain surface to construct an RNF8-FHA domain library. Using the library, an antigen-binding protein is efficiently selected in vitro.

RNF8-FHA domain-modified protein and method of producing the same

The present invention provides a method of producing a maturated oligonucleotide library, including a step of obtaining a terminal-modified product of a maturation target oligonucleotide library, including adding a tag sequence to the 5' terminus of the maturation target oligonucleotide library and an arrest sequence, which stalls translation elongation on a ribosome, to the 3&#x2032; terminus of the maturation target oligonucleotide library, a step of transcribing the terminal-modified sequence product to give a transcript, and a step of in vitro translation for translating the transcript in vitro, wherein the maturation target oligonucleotide library is a random oligonucleotide library.

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Kanehisa Kojoh