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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2010
Douglas Hanahan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Erkki Ruoslahti, San Francisdo, CA (US);
Douglas Hanahan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Erkki Ruoslahti, San Francisdo, CA (US);
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a conjugate that contains a therapeutic moiety linked to a homing peptide or peptidomimetic which selectively homes to vasculature of pre-malignant dysplastic skin and which includes the amino acid sequence SRPRR (SEQ ID NO: 1) or a conservative variant or peptidomimetic thereof. The present invention further provides a conjugate containing a therapeutic moiety linked to a homing peptide or peptidomimetic which selectively homes to vasculature of malignant skin and which includes the amino acid sequence CGKRK (SEQ ID NO: 6) or the amino acid sequence CDTRL (SEQ ID NO: 7), or a conservative variant or peptidomimetic of one of these sequences.