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Modified pseudomonas exotoxin a

a technology of pseudomonas exotoxin and modified pseudomonas, which is applied in the direction of immunoglobulins, peptides, drugs against animals/humans, etc., can solve the problems of reducing the effectiveness of pe for treating disease, etc., to achieve the effect of optimizing treatment schedule, enhancing serum half life, and reducing side effects

Active Publication Date: 2015-04-09
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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The patent relates to a method of making proteins that can treat cancer. These proteins are designed to have reduced harmful side effects and to have a longer half life in the body. The patent also covers methods for making these proteins using genetic engineering techniques. Overall, the patent provides a way to make safer and more effective cancer treatments using specialized proteins.

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However, PE may be highly immunogenic.
Such immunogenicity may reduce the amount of PE that can be given to the patient which may, in turn, reduce the effectiveness of the PE for treating the disease, e.g., cancer.
Without being bound to a particular theory, it is believed that the reduced immunogenicity and fewer side effects of PE24 could, at least in part, be due to the reduced size of PE24, which disadvantageously results in a shorter serum half life.
For example, deimmunization of previous immunotoxins has been incomplete with respect to the human B-cell epitopes because immunogenic reactions still occurred.
The linkers of previous immunoxins also contained T-cell epitopes and poor developability such as, for example, a poor stability at 37° C. In addition, previous anti-mesothelin (MSLN) immunotoxins have only used mouse-derived dsFv fragments fused to PE, which may further contribute to immunogenicity.

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[0353]This example demonstrates the identification of T cell epitopes in domain III of PE38.

[0354]To identify the T cell epitopes in PE38, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were first incubated with a recombinant immunotoxin (RIT) for 14 days to allow the RIT to be processed by donor APCs to relevant peptides to be presented to T cells. The enriched PBMCs were subsequently exposed to a peptide library composed of 111 partially overlapping peptides spanning the sequence of PE38 and T cell activation was measured using an ELISpot assay for interleukin-2 (IL-2).

[0355]Samples from 50 normal donors with no recorded previous exposure to PE38 and with a broad distribution of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles were analyzed. The cells of this population contained naïve T cell epitope. Samples from nine mesothelioma and seven hairy cell leukemia (HCL) patients that were previously treated with PE-based RIT and who had developed high levels of neutralizing antibodies were also ana...

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[0362]This example demonstrates the elimination of T cell epitopes in domain III.

[0363]For each one of the epitopes in domain III that are described in Table 1, alanine scanning mutagenesis was performed. The alanine mutant was incorporated into the RIT according to the following 11 steps: (1) a list was made of all alanine peptide variants for each epitope; (2) in silico prediction was performed to rule out alanine variants that had increased binding to at least six HLA alleles using an HLA binding algorithm (Immune Epitope Database, IEDB) (Wang et al., PLoS Comput. Biol., 4:e1000048 (2008)) that measured their ability to bind to 13 major HLA groups; (3) alanine variants were assayed using 8-15 donors and patient samples with in vitro expansion and ELIspot; (4) an alanine mutation with diminished T cell activation was identified; (5) the alanine mutation was cloned into the HA22-LR plasmid, and a RIT was constructed with a single point mutation; (6) activity was studied using the W...

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[0368]This example demonstrates the cytotoxic activity of point mutation proteins in HA22-LR.

[0369]Step 4 of Example 2 was carried out. The best variants identified in the alanine scan or using further in silico prediction are described in Table 1A.

[0370]Forty mutant RITs were constructed. The cytotoxic activity of point mutation proteins in HA22-LR was evaluated with respect to CA46, Raji, and Daudi cells. Yields of purified protein, calculated accessible surface areas (Lee et al., J. Mol. Biol., 55:379-400 (1971); Roscoe et al., Infect. Immunity, 62:5055-5065 (1994)) of WT amino acids residues and cytotoxic activity of each RIT are shown in Table 8.

TABLE 8Protein activityProteinMean relativeASAyieldactivity (%) ± SDPeptideMutation(Å2)*(mg)CA46RajiDaudi76R500A0A76L498A4A76L499A0.1A76R494A352.021 ± 3 33 ± 1036 ± 8 76R494D353.231177R505A150478 ± 13185 ± 10676 / 77Y502A0A76 / 77Y502H0A76 / 77Y502F0A76 / 77Y502K0A67I471A41.62467I471V448310867I471M43367I471H4A67I471G4A67I471S41.3267I471D4A67Y47...

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Abstract

The invention provides a Pseudomonas exotoxin A (PE) comprising an amino acid sequence having a substitution of one or more B-cell and / or T-cell epitopes. The invention further provides related chimeric molecules, as well as related nucleic acids, recombinant expression vectors, host cells, populations of cells, and pharmaceutical compositions. Methods of treating or preventing cancer in a mammal, methods of inhibiting the growth of a target cell, methods of producing the PE, and methods of producing the chimeric molecule are further provided by the invention.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This patent application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Nos. 61 / 887,418, filed Oct. 6, 2013; 61 / 908,464, filed Nov. 25, 2013; 61 / 982,051, filed Apr. 21, 2014; and 62 / 052,665, filed Sep. 19, 2014, each of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.INCORPORATION-BY-REFERENCE OF MATERIAL SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY[0002]Incorporated by reference in its entirety herein is a computer-readable nucleotide / amino acid sequence listing submitted concurrently herewith and identified as follows: one 144,473 Byte ASCII (Text) file named “718352_ST25.txt,” dated Oct. 1, 2014.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]Pseudomonas exotoxin A (PE) is a bacterial toxin with cytotoxic activity that may be effective for destroying or inhibiting the growth of undesirable cells, e.g., cancer cells. Accordingly, PE may be useful for treating or preventing diseases such as, e.g., cancer. However, PE may be highly immunogenic. Accordin...

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IPC IPC(8): C07K14/21A61K47/48
CPCC07K14/21A61K47/48376A61K47/48484A61K38/00C07K2319/33C07K16/1214C07K2319/50C07K2319/30A61K39/39558A61K31/337C07K16/303C07K16/40A61K2039/505C07K2317/24C07K2317/55C07K2317/624C07K2317/73C07K2317/92C07K2317/94C07K2319/55A61K47/6803A61K47/6829A61K47/6851A61K47/6859A61K47/6871C07K16/30A61P35/00A61K2300/00
Inventor PASTAN, IRA H.MAZOR, RONITONDA, MASANORILEE, BYUNGKOOKNIEDERFELLNER, GERHARDIMHOF-JUNG, SABINEBRINKMANN, ULRICHSCHEUER, WERNERGEORGES, GUY
Owner UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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