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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2018
Cytomx Therapeutics, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Stephen James Moore, Danville, CA (US);
Margaret Thy Luu Nguyen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Daniel Robert Hostetter, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Olga Vasiljeva, Cupertino, CA (US);
CytomX Therapeutics, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention relates generally to polypeptides that include a cleavable moiety that is a substrate for at least one protease selected from matriptase and u-plasminogen activator (uPA), to activatable antibodies and other larger molecules that include the cleavable moiety that is a substrate for at least one protease selected from matriptase and u-plasminogen activator, and to methods of making and using these polypeptides that include a cleavable moiety that is a substrate for at least one protease selected from matriptase and u-plasminogen activator in a variety of therapeutic, diagnostic and prophylactic indications.