Mipsalus Aps

Medtronic Minimed, Inc.

Precisense A/s

Klaus Gregorius

Nicolas Otto Krogh

Jesper Svenning Kristensen

Yihua Yu

Casper Struve

Ian Alan Nicholls

John Myhre Frederiksen

Elena Fernandez Laborda

Disclosed is agents and methods that target metabolism malfunctions, inborne as well as acquired, as well as methods for preparation of the agents. In particular, the invention relates to methods for preparing molecular imprinted polymers with high binding capacity for phenylalanine or tyrosine, MIPs that bind phenylalanine or tyrosine, and methods for treating phenylketonuria, alkaptonuria, and hypertyrosinemia.

Molecular imprinted polymers targeting phenylalanine

Disclosed is a FRET based assay and related products. The assay employs molecular imprinted polymers having a very high affinity for their target.

Detection method and means therefor

Provided is an improved method for preparation of insoluble molecular imprinted polymers (MIPs), the method comprising: a) providing soluble or semi-soluble MIPs that 1) substantially all bind template agents and 2) have sizes which enable their separation in a chromatographic step utilizing packed bed chromatography, b) cross-linking the template agent binding soluble MIPs provided in step a so as to obtain insoluble template agent binding MIPs, and c) optionally isolating, concentrating or purifying the MIPs obtained by the cross-linking in step b. In an interesting embodiment, step a includes an affinity purification procedure, which ensures that the MIPs provided in step a are indeed all binders of the template.

Preparation of molecular imprinted polymers by cross-linking

Disclosed is a method for preparing a composition enriched for receptors (typically molecular impringet polymers, MIPs) that bind an agent, where said receptors each specifically bind at least two discrete sites on said agent, by subjecting a sample of receptors to a first step of affinity purification with the agent where one binding site on the agent is non-accessible for binding to the receptors and subsequently subjecting the purified receptors to at least one further step of affinity purification with the agent where a second binding site on the agent is non-accessible. Also disclosed is a method for treatment, amelioration or prophylaxis of a disease selected from the group consisting of phenylketonuria (PKU, F&#xf8;lling's disease), hyperphenylalaninemia (HPA), alcaptonuria (black urine disease), tyrosinemia, hypertyrosinemia, myasthenia gravis, histidinemia, urocanic aciduria, maple syrup urine disease (MSUD), isovaleric acidemia (isovaleryl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency), homocystinuria, propionic acidemia, methylmalonic acidemia, and glutaric aciduria Type 1 (GA-I), galactosemia, comprising administering to the gastrointestinal tract of a patient in need thereof an effective amount of a composition of molecular imprinted polymers (MIPs), said composition being capable of binding a symptom provoking agent of said disease.

Purification of multi-specific receptors

A sensor for the detection or measurement of carbohydrate analyte (such as glucose) in fluid comprises components of a competitive binding assay the readout of which is a detectable or measurable optical signal (such as FRET assay) retained by a material that permits diffusion of analyte but not the assay components, the assay components comprising: an animal lectin; and an analyte analogue capable of competing with analyte for binding to the lectin.

Sensor for detection of carbohydrate

A sensor for the detection or measurement of a carbohydrate analyte in fluid comprises components of a competitive binding assay the readout of which is a detectable or measurable optical signal retained by a material that permits diffusion of the analyte but not the assay components, the assay components comprising: a carbohydrate binding molecule labelled with one of a proximity based signal generating/modulating moiety pair; and a carbohydrate analogue capable of competing with the analyte for binding to the carbohydrate binding molecule, the carbohydrate analogue being a flexible water-soluble polymer comprising: polymerized or co-polymerised residues of monomer units, the monomer unit residues bearing pendant carbohydrate or carbohydrate mimetic moieties and pendant moieties which are the other of the proximity based signal generating/modulating moiety pair.

Flexible carbohydrate-bearing polymer

A sensor for sensing analyte concentration comprises at least two different variants of an appropriate competitive binding assay, the sensor being capable of sensing accurately a required range of analyte concentrations by means of the variants of the assay each being capable of sensing accurately a part only of the required range of analyte concentrations and the variants of the assay being chosen to sense overlapping or adjoining ranges of concentration covering the whole of the required range.

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Klaus Gregorius