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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 1992
Filed:
May. 10, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kirston E Koths, El Cerrito, CA (US);
Robert F Halenbeck, San Rafael, CA (US);
David F Mark, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Danutee Nitecti, Berkeley, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cetus Corporation, Emeryville, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07K / ; A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
530351 ; 530820 ; 530825 ; 435 6952 ; 435 6951 ; 435 695 ; 424 852 ; 424 851 ; 424 854 ; 424 855 ; 424 856 ; 424 857 ;
Abstract
A biologically active reference therapeutic protein is protected against oxidation by a method involving substituting a conservative amino acid for each methionyl residue susceptible to chloramine T or peroxide oxidation, wherein additional, non-susceptible methionyl residues are not so substituted. The oxidation-resistant mutein so produced is preferably a human mutein of interleukin-2 or interferon-.beta., and the conservative amino acid is most preferably alanine.