Abstract: This invention describes the design of bispecific antibodies that function as conditionally effective therapeutics by binding to a functionally silent epitope on one component of a targeted signaling complex and simultaneously binding to a second protein, whose expression or accessibility is cell- or disease environment-specific, and whose antibody-driven proximity to the signaling complex leads to an alteration of signal transduction.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 9, 2018
Date of Patent:
September 7, 2021
Assignee:
TORCH THERAPEUTICS
Inventors:
Todd M. Kinsella, Donald G. Payan, Ramesh Bhatt, Kristen Baltgalvis