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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2012
Grant Gallagher, Milltown, NJ (US);
Raymond Yu, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Jonathan Brazaitis, Parlin, NJ (US);
Grant Gallagher, Milltown, NJ (US);
Raymond Yu, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Jonathan Brazaitis, Parlin, NJ (US);
Medical Diagnostic Laboratories, LLC., Hamilton, NJ (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to novel polypeptides that bind to IL-23 receptor and inhibit the binding of IL-23 to its corresponding receptor and cell signaling thereof. The novel polypeptides of the present invention has a core structure of WXXXW, where W is tryptophan, and X, Xand Xare amino acids, with the proviso that when one of X, Xor Xis W, the remaining two of X, Xor Xcannot be W. The present invention relates a composition containing the novel polypeptides, and use of same in treating IL-23 associated human diseases including, for example, inflammatory bowel diseases, psoriasis and Crohn's disease.