Alteogen, Inc.

Sun-Ah You

Soon Jae Park

Hye-Shin Chung

Chang Woo Lee

Sunbae Lee

Seung Joo Lee

Yong Mo Kim

Hyung-Nam Song

Sang Hoon Yun

Seonhun Kwon

Jaehyeong Ko

The present invention is related to the field of protein engineering technology which increases the enzymatic activity and thermal stability of human hyaluronidase which is an enzyme that hydrolyzes hyaluronic acid; and more particularly to hyaluronidase PH20 variants or fragments thereof, which comprise one or more amino acid residue substitutions in the region corresponding to the alpha-helix region and its linker region in the amino acid sequence of wild-type PH20 of SEQ ID NO: 1 and in which one or more amino acid residues at the N-terminus and/or the C-terminus are selectively cleaved additionally. Specifically, the present invention relates to PH20 variants or fragments thereof, which comprise one or more amino acid residue substitutions selected from the group consisting of T341A, T341C, T341G, S343E, M345T, K349E, L353A, L354I, N356E and I361T in wild-type PH20 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, and additionally comprise the substitution of amino acids located in the alpha-helix 8 region and/or a linker region between alpha-helix 7 and alpha-helix 8 in the amino acid sequence of wild-type PH20, and in which one or more amino acids located at the N-terminal and C-terminal regions are deleted.

Hyaluronidase variants and pharmaceutical composition comprising the same

The present invention relates to a growth hormone receptor antagonist comprising a growth hormone variant which is modified by substitution of one or more amino acids of growth hormone. Further, the growth hormone receptor antagonist of the present invention may further comprise a long-acting carrier which is fused to the growth hormone variant. The growth hormone receptor antagonist may have strong binding potency to growth hormone receptor and may exhibit a long-lasting antagonistic action.

Growth hormone receptor antagonists and fusion proteins thereof

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