Rhone-poulenc Rorer Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Armour Pharmaceutical Company

Rorer Pharmaceutical Corporation

The Immune Response Corporation

Centeon L.l.c.

Michael E Hrinda

Ted C Lee

Christopher P Prior

David L Farb

George C Tarr

Jonathan J Mitschelen

Fred Feldman

Joseph D Fisher

Willie M Curry

Sudhish Chandra

Godfrey W Amphlett

Arthur B Shaw

James J Harter

David M Weber

Richard S Gore

Mark S Klekamp

Lida Y Akhnana

Thomas L Darling

Pierre M Bay

Thomas W Irish

Rose D'Alisa

David Weber

Processes for preparing aqueous solutions of cysteine-altered von Willebrand Factor fragment which are substantially free of aggregate and capable of therapeutic use for treating thrombosis are provided. The claimed process comprises providing an aqueous solution of vWF fragment and denaturant and containing undesired contaminants, said solution having an acidic pH; separating said contaminants from said solution by contacting said solution with an affinity chromatography medium to which said vWF fragments adhere; eluting said vWF fragment from said affinity chromatography medium in the presence of the denaturant; and separating the eluted fragment from said denaturant while maintaining the aqueous solution of the fragment at a pH of about 2.5 to less than about 5.5 to increase monomerization of, and decrease aggregation of, said fragment, thereby forming an aqueous solution of vWF fragment which is substantially free of aggregate.

Therapeutic fragments of von Willebrand factor

This invention is directed to a continuous process for producing viral particles by providing in a perfused growth medium a population of viable virally infected non-lytic cells, and removing medium containing said cells at a rate to maintain the steady-state log-phase growth of cells remaining in the perfused growth medium. The invention is also directed to a process for purifying retroviral particles by passing a solution comprising the retroviral particles and contaminants through an anion exchange resin, and eluting the retroviral particles from the resin. The preferred exchange resin is a tentacle anion exchange resin.

Production and purification of retroviral particles using tentacle anion

Stable, highly purified Factor VIII protein formulations are provided in high ionic strength media which comprises: sodium chloride, potassium chloride or mixtures thereof; calcium chloride; and histidine as the buffering agent.

Factor VIII formulations in high ionic strength media

An aqueous solution of cysteine-altered von Willebrand Factor fragment which is substantially free of aggregate and capable of therapeutic use for treating thrombosis and a process for preparing such a solution comprising: (A) providing an aqueous solution of the fragment and denaturant; (B) purifying the solution of fragment and denaturant under conditions which promote conversion of aggregated forms of the fragment to the dimeric and/or monomeric forms thereof to provide purified fragment; (C) separating the dissolved, purified fragment from the denaturant while maintaining the aqueous solution of the fragment at a pH of about 2.5 to less than about 5.5 to increase monomerization of, and decrease aggregation of, said purified fragment, thereby forming an aqueous solution of fragment which is substantially free of aggregate.

Recovery of the 52/48 kDa tryptic fragment of vWF or peptide subfragments thereof produced in the form of inclusion bodies from recombinant host cells is carried out by providing a washed recombinant host cell suspension, adding a detergent and subjecting the cells to mechanical disruption. A second detergent is added, followed by another mechanical disruption and centrifugation to a pellet. The pellet is resuspended in a buffer and subjected to another mechanical disruption. Inclusion bodies are washed, resuspended and then recovered. In addition, endotoxins and DNA are removed from inclusion bodies containing the 52/48 kDa tryptic fragment of vWF or peptide subfragments thereof by mechanically disrupting the inclusion bodies in an aqueous buffer containing a detergent. A washed pellet is formed from these mechanically disrupted inclusion bodies and dissolved in a denaturant. Alkylation is then performed and the suspension is subjected to column chromatography, where the alkylated fragment or subfragment is recovered by elution.

Methods for purification of recombinantly produced proteins

The present invention provides a fail-safe combination of chemical and physical means for rendering a blood product which comprises a labile blood protein free of viruses without incurring protein denaturation. The blood product is contacted with an effective amount of a selected chemical disinfectant, preferably, sodium thiocyanate in combination with a physical process, preferably, ultrafiltration. The blood product may be plasma, serum, plasma concentrate, cryoprecipitate, cryosupernatant, plasma fractionation precipitate or plasma fractionation supernatant containing viruses such as hepatitis or human immunodeficiency virus.

Methods for the inactivation of viruses in viral-contaminated

Disclosed is a method of recovery of antihemophilic factor (AHF) from human plasma by precipitation with citric acid, sodium citrate, or potassium citrate.

High recovery process for antihemophilic factor

Stable factor VIII and other plasma protein formulations are provided in low ionic strength media which comprises: sodium chloride, potassium chloride or mixtures thereof; lysine hydrochloride; and histidine as the buffering agent.

Pharmaceutical plasma protein formulations in low ionic strength media

A method of inactivating pathogens in proteinaceous biological and pharmaceutical products which comprises: mixing the product in an aqueous solution with one or more primary stabilizers selected from the group consisting of sugars and sugar alcohols and one or more secondary stabilizers selected from the group consisting of sodium acetate, potassium acetate, lithium acetate, magnesium acetate, ammonium acetate, barium acetate, sodium sulfate, ammonium sulfate, lithium sulfate, potassium sulfate and magnesium sulfate; and subjecting said aqueous solution to a pathogen inactivating process.

Stabilization of biological and pharmaceutical products during thermal

Factor VIII:C is purified by chromatographic absorption on aminohexyl agarose at a pH above 5.5 up to about 8, and preferably 6.5 to 7.2, and a conductivity of about 25 to about 35 mS/cm.

Process for purifying factor VIII:C

Purified plasma albumin is obtained by ion exchange chromatographic procedures and in the absence of process steps involving precipitation or desorption of the albumin.

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Michael E Hrinda