Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Fukae

Kazuhiro Fukae has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10358470
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a glycosylated polypeptide having uniform sugar chain structure which has interferon ? activity. It was found that a glycosylated polypeptide having uniform sugar chain structure as well as having interferon ? activity can be prepared by a method comprising a step of synthesizing a glycosylated peptide fragment and at least two peptide fragments and a step of linking the glycosylated peptide fragment and the at least two peptide fragments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: GLYTECH, INC.
    Inventors: Izumi Sakamoto, Kazuhiro Fukae, Katsunari Tezuka, Keisuke Tazuru, Masatoshi Maeda, Yasuhiro Kajihara, Takashi Tsuji
  • Patent number: 9937264
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a glycosylated polypeptide having an affinity to somatostatin receptors, and, compared to somatostatins, having improved in-blood stability. [Solution] The glycosylated polypeptide is characterized by at least one amino acid in a somatostatin or an analog thereof being replaced with a glycosylated amino acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: GLYTECH, INC.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ochiai, Taiji Shimoda, Kazuhiro Fukae, Masatoshi Maeda, Kazuyuki Ishii, Kenta Yoshida, Katsunari Tezuka, Keisuke Tazuru
  • Patent number: 9802996
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a glycosylated polypeptide having affinity to somatostatin receptors and, compared to somatostatins, having improved in-blood stability. [Solution] The glycosylated polypeptide is characterized by at least two amino acids in a somatostatin or an analog thereof being replaced by glycosylated amino acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Glytech, Inc.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ochiai, Taiji Shimoda, Kazuhiro Fukae, Masatoshi Maeda, Keisuke Tazuru, Kenta Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20170240655
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] The importance of sugar chains having ?2,3- or ?2,6-linked sialic acid at their non-reducing ends is known. Industrial production has been demanded for these sugar chain compounds. Particularly, the production of glycoprotein drugs or the like inevitably requires producing in quantity sugar chains having homogeneous structures by controlling the linking pattern (?2,6-linkage or ?2,3-linkage) of sialic acid. Particularly, a triantennary or tetraantennary N-type complex sugar chain having sialic acid at each of all non-reducing ends is generally considered difficult to chemically synthesize. There has been no report disclosing that such a sugar chain was chemically synthesized. Furthermore, these sugar chains are also difficult to efficiently prepare enzymatically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: Glytech, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasunori Chiba, Yoshie Takahashi, Hisashi Narimatsu, Kazuhiro Fukae
  • Publication number: 20170157260
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a glycosylated polypeptide having an affinity to somatostatin receptors, and, compared to somatostatins, having improved in-blood stability. [Solution] The glycosylated polypeptide is characterized by at least one amino acid in a somatostatin or an analogue thereof being replaced with a glycosylated amino acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ochiai, Taiji Shimoda, Kazuhiro Fukae, Masatoshi Maeda, Kazuyuki Ishii, Kenta Yoshida, Katsunari Tezuka, Keisuke Tazuru
  • Publication number: 20160368961
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a glycosylated polypeptide having affinity to somatostatin receptors and, compared to somatostatins, having improved in-blood stability. [Solution] The glycosylated polypeptide is characterized by at least two amino acids in a somatostatin or an analogue thereof being replaced by glycosylated amino acids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ochiai, Taiji Shimoda, Kazuhiro Fukae, Masatoshi Maeda, Keisuke Tazuru, Kenta Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9441024
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a glycosylated polypeptide having affinity to somatostatin receptors and, compared to somatostatins, having improved in-blood stability. [Solution] The glycosylated polypeptide is characterized by at least two amino acids in a somatostatin or an analogue thereof being replaced by glycosylated amino acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Glytech, Inc.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ochiai, Taiji Shimoda, Kazuhiro Fukae, Masatoshi Maeda, Keisuke Tazuru, Kenta Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9422357
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a glycosylated polypeptide having an affinity to somatostatin receptors, and, compared to somatostatins, having improved in-blood stability. [Solution] The glycosylated polypeptide is characterized by at least one amino acid in a somatostatin or an analog thereof being replaced with a glycosylated amino acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Glytech, Inc.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ochiai, Taiji Shimoda, Kazuhiro Fukae, Masatoshi Maeda, Kazuyuki Ishii, Kenta Yoshida, Katsunari Tezuka, Keisuke Tazuru
  • Patent number: 9376506
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] The importance of sugar chains having ?2,3- or ?2,6-linked sialic acid at their non-reducing ends is known. Industrial production has been demanded for these sugar chain compounds. Particularly, the production of glycoprotein drugs or the like inevitably requires producing in quantity sugar chains having homogeneous structures by controlling the linking pattern (?2,6-linkage or ?2,3-linkage) of sialic acid. Particularly, a triantennary or tetraantennary N-type complex sugar chain having sialic acid at each of all non-reducing ends is generally considered difficult to chemically synthesize. There has been no report disclosing that such a sugar chain was chemically synthesized. Furthermore, these sugar chains are also difficult to efficiently prepare enzymatically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: GLYTECH, INC.
    Inventors: Yasunori Chiba, Yoshie Takahashi, Hisashi Narimatsu, Kazuhiro Fukae
  • Publication number: 20140369964
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a glycosylated polypeptide having uniform sugar chain structure which has interferon ? activity. It was found that a glycosylated polypeptide having uniform sugar chain structure as well as having interferon ? activity can be prepared by a method comprising a step of synthesizing a glycosylated peptide fragment and at least two peptide fragments and a step of linking the glycosylated peptide fragment and the at least two peptide fragments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Izumi Sakamoto, Kazuhiro Fukae, Katsunari Tezuka, Keisuke Tazuru, Masatoshi Maeda, Yasuhiro Kajihara, Takashi Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20140336116
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a glycosylated polypeptide having an affinity to somatostatin receptors, and, compared to somatostatins, having improved in-blood stability. [Solution] The glycosylated polypeptide is characterized by at least one amino acid in a somatostatin or an analog thereof being replaced with a glycosylated amino acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Glytech, Inc.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ochiai, Taiji Shimoda, Kazuhiro Fukae, Masatoshi Maeda, Kazuyuki Ishii, Kenta Yoshida, Katsunari Tezuka, Keisuke Tazuru
  • Publication number: 20140315800
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a glycosylated polypeptide having affinity to somatostatin receptors and, compared to somatostatins, having improved in-blood stability. [Solution] The glycosylated polypeptide is characterized by at least two amino acids in a somatostatin or an analogue thereof being replaced by glycosylated amino acids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Glytech, Inc.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ochiai, Taiji Shimoda, Kazuhiro Fukae, Masatoshi Maeda, Keisuke Tazuru, Kenta Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20140235822
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a peptide, characterized in that it comprises converting an —SH group of a peptide comprising an amino acid residue having the —SH group to an —OH group, wherein said method comprises the following steps (a) to (c): (a) allowing an —SH group in a peptide to react with a methylating agent to convert the —SH group to an -SMe group; (b) allowing the -SMe group obtained in the step (a) to react with a cyanizing agent to produce a reaction intermediate; and (c) converting the reaction intermediate obtained in the step (b) to a peptide comprising an amino acid residue having an —OH group under more basic conditions than the conditions in the step (b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Glytech, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kajihara, Izumi Sakamoto, Yuri Nambu, Kazuhiro Fukae, Hiroaki Asai
  • Patent number: 8809258
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a peptide, characterized in that it comprises converting an —SH group of a peptide comprising an amino acid residue having the —SH group to an —OH group, wherein said method comprises the following steps (a) to (c): (a) allowing an —SH group in a peptide to react with a methylating agent to convert the —SH group to an -SMe group; (b) allowing the -SMe group obtained in the step (a) to react with a cyanizing agent to produce a reaction intermediate; and (c) converting the reaction intermediate obtained in the step (b) to a peptide comprising an amino acid residue having an —OH group under more basic conditions than the conditions in the step (b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Glytech, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kajihara, Izumi Sakamoto, Yuri Nambu, Kazuhiro Fukae, Hiroaki Asai
  • Patent number: 8765669
    Abstract: Oligosaccharide chain added GLP-1 peptides are more stable in blood and more active in controlling blood-sugar levels than GLP-1 peptides without added oligosaccharides. Oligosaccharide chain added GLP-1 peptides having GLP-1 activity include at least one or at least two amino acids each substituted with an oligosaccharide chain added amino acid in GLP-1; a peptide having the amino acid sequence of GLP-1 with deletion, substitution or addition of one or several amino acids; or a GLP-1 analog. Oligosaccharide chain added GLP-1 peptides with at least one amino acid substituted with an oligosaccharide chain added amino acid include an oligosaccharide chain with oligo hyaluronic acid. Oligosaccharide chain added amino acids include oligosaccharide chains attached to amino acids via linkers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Glytech, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kajihara, Takashi Tsuji, Izumi Sakamoto, Yuri Nambu, Naohiro Hayashi, Kazuyuki Ishii, Kazuhiro Fukae, Katsunari Tezuka, Hiroaki Asai
  • Publication number: 20140066617
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] The importance of sugar chains having ?2,3- or ?2,6-linked sialic acid at their non-reducing ends is known. Industrial production has been demanded for these sugar chain compounds. Particularly, the production of glycoprotein drugs or the like inevitably requires producing in quantity sugar chains having homogeneous structures by controlling the linking pattern (?2,6-linkage or ?2,3-linkage) of sialic acid. Particularly, a triantennary or tetraantennary N-type complex sugar chain having sialic acid at each of all non-reducing ends is generally considered difficult to chemically synthesize. There has been no report disclosing that such a sugar chain was chemically synthesized. Furthermore, these sugar chains are also difficult to efficiently prepare enzymatically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: Yasunori Chiba, Yoshie Takahashi, Hisashi Narimatsu, Kazuhiro Fukae
  • Publication number: 20130345129
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an oligosaccharide chain added GLP-1 peptide that has higher stability in blood than that of GLP-1 and, preferably, exhibits higher activity of controlling blood-sugar levels than that of GLP-1. The present invention relates to an oligosaccharide chain added GLP-1 peptide having GLP-1 activity, wherein at least one amino acid is substituted with an oligosaccharide chain added amino acid, in: (a) GLP-1; (b) a peptide having the amino acid sequence of GLP-1 with deletion, substitution or addition of one or several amino acids; or (c) a GLP-1 analog.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: GLYTECH, INC.
    Inventors: YASUHIRO KAJIHARA, TAKASHI TSUJI, IZUMI SAKAMOTO, YURI NAMBU, KAZUHIRO FUKAE, KATSUNARI TEZUKA, HIROAKI ASAI
  • Patent number: 8507429
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an oligosaccharide chain added GLP-1 peptide that has higher stability in blood than that of GLP-1 and, preferably, exhibits higher activity of controlling blood-sugar levels than that of GLP-1. The present invention relates to an oligosaccharide chain added GLP-1 peptide having GLP-1 activity, wherein at least one amino acid is substituted with an oligosaccharide chain added amino acid, in: (a) GLP-1; (b) a peptide having the amino acid sequence of GLP-1 with deletion, substitution or addition of one or several amino acids; or (c) a GLP-1 analog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Glytech, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kajihara, Takashi Tsuji, Izumi Sakamoto, Yuri Nambu, Kazuhiro Fukae, Katsunari Tezuka, Hiroaki Asai
  • Publication number: 20120114595
    Abstract: Disclosed is a synthetic AILIM extracellular domain which has high ligand-binding ability and a quality sufficient for a pharmaceutical product. Also disclosed is a method for synthesizing the synthetic AILIM extracellular domain. Specifically disclosed is a sugar chaim-added AILIM extracellular domain wherein a sugar chain is bound at a position corresponding to the 69-position of the amino acid sequence of human AILIM extracellular domain, said amino acid sequence being depicted in SEQ ID NO: 7, and no sugar chain is added at positions corresponding to the 3-position and the 90-position of the amino acid sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: OTSUKA CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kajihara, Takashi Tsuji, Katsunari Tezuka, Kenta Yoshida, Kazuhiro Fukae
  • Patent number: 8158763
    Abstract: An asparagine-linked ?2,3-oligosaccharide having undeca- to hepta-saccharides, an asparagine-linked ?2,6-oligosaccharide having undeca- to hepta-saccharides and containing fluorine and an asparagine-linked oligosaccharide derivative containing at least one fucose in N-acetylglucosamine on the nonreducing terminal side of an asparagine-linked oligosaccharide wherein the asparagine has amino group protected with a lipophilic protective group, and a process for producing these compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignees: Otsuka Chemical Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kajihara, Kazuaki Kakehi, Kazuhiro Fukae