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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2015
Eisai R&d Management Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Toshio Imai, Kyoto, JP;
James Bradford Kline, Morgantown, PA (US);
Tetsu Kawano, Kobe, JP;
Luigi Grasso, Bryn Mawr, PA (US);
Yoshimasa Sakamoto, Nishinomiya, JP;
Jared Spidel, Downingtown, PA (US);
Miyuki Nishimura, Kobe, JP;
Kenzo Muramoto, Tsukuba, JP;
Tatsuo Horizoe, Moriya, JP;
Eisai R&D Management Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to novel humanized, chimeric and murine antibodies that have binding specificity for the human CC chemokine ligand 20 (CCL20). The present invention further relates to heavy chains and light chains of said antibodies. The invention also relates to isolated nucleic acids, recombinant vectors and host cells that comprise a sequence which encodes a heavy chain and/or a light chain of said antibodies, and to a method of preparing said antibodies. The anti-CCL20 antibodies of the invention can be used in therapeutic applications to treat, for example, inflammatory and autoimmune disorders and cancer.