Materials And Products Related To Genetic Engineering Or Hybrid Or Fused Cell Technology, E.g., Hybridoma, Monoclonal Products, Etc. Patents (Class 530/808)

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Fused cells, e.g., hybridoma, etc. (Class 530/809)
  • Patent number: 12135265
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the chromatographic isolation of a target cell or another complex biological material, in particular by column chromatography such as affinity chromatography or gel permeation chromatography. The invention employs a receptor binding reagent that binds to a receptor molecule that is located on the surface of a target cell. The invention in general provides novel methods for the traceless isolation of biologic materials such as cells, cell organelles, viruses and the like. The invention also relates to an apparatus for the isolation of cells and other complex biological materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Juno Therapeutics GmbH
    Inventor: Herbert Stadler
  • Patent number: 12066365
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the chromatographic isolation of a target cell or another complex biological material, in particular by column chromatography such as affinity chromatography or gel permeation chromatography. The invention employs a receptor binding reagent that binds to a receptor molecule that is located on the surface of a target cell. The invention in general provides novel methods for the traceless isolation of biologic materials such as cells, cell organelles, viruses and the like. The invention also relates to an apparatus for the isolation of cells and other complex biological materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Juno Therapeutics GmbH
    Inventor: Herbert Stadler
  • Patent number: 12050218
    Abstract: The use of mitochondrial protease OMA1 as a theranostic marker for breast cancer, tumor progression, metastatis and drug responsiveness is disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: NUtech Ventures
    Inventors: Srivatsan Kidambi, Oleh Khalimonchuk
  • Patent number: 8945857
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for isolating cells, particularly antibody-secreting cells that have a high likelihood of secreting antibodies specific for a desired antigen for the purpose of making monoclonal antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Inventor: John Schrader
  • Patent number: 8883980
    Abstract: The present invention relates to antigen binding molecules (ABMs). In particular embodiments, the present invention relates to recombinant monoclonal antibodies, including chimeric, primatized or humanized antibodies specific for human CD20. In addition, the present invention relates to nucleic acid molecules encoding such ABMs, and vectors and host cells comprising such nucleic acid molecules. The invention further relates to methods for producing the ABMs of the invention, and to methods of using these ABMs in treatment of disease. In addition, the present invention relates to ABMs with modified glycosylation having improved therapeutic properties, including antibodies with increased Fc receptor binding and increased effector function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Roche Glycart AG
    Inventors: Pablo Umaña, Peter Brünker, Claudia Ferrera Koller, Tobias Suter, Ursula Püntener, Ekkehard Mössner
  • Patent number: 8790643
    Abstract: Monoclonal antibodies to the IL-21 receptor and multimeric complexes comprising the IL-21 receptor; including monoclonal antibodies to the heterodimeric receptor, IL-21/IL-2R?; have been prepared. The invention also describes a method of producing said antibodies. And, the invention also describes a method of treatment comprising using said antibodies to suppress an immune response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: ZymoGenetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Pallavur V. Sivakumar, Stephen R. Jaspers
  • Patent number: 8741586
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of diagnosis and therapy of cancers expressing the HER2 receptor. The invention provides antibodies or fragments thereof that recognise an epitope of the HER2 receptor truncated form CTF-611, said epitope being defined by a sequence included in SEQ ID NO: 2, and that are capable of discriminating between CTF-611 and CTF-616 (represented by SEQ ID NO:7), preferably additionally capable of discriminating between CTF-611 and CTF-613 (represented by SEQ ID NO:6). The invention also provides a method of cancer diagnosis using the disclosed antibodies, which comprises the detection of the presence of the HER2 receptor truncated form consisting of the amino acid sequence SEQ ID NO: 1 in a patient sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignees: Fundacio Privada Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats, Fundacio Privada Institut d'Investigacio Oncologica de vall d'Hebron
    Inventors: Joaquin Arribas Lopez, Kim Pedersen, Pier-Davide Angellini, Josep Lluis Parra Palau, Jose Baselga Torres
  • Patent number: 8715996
    Abstract: The invention provides variants of the Thermoanaerobacter brockii CglT beta-glucosidase that have improve beta-glucosidase activity compared to the wild type enzyme. The invention also provides polynucleotides that encode the variants, as well as methods of producing the variants, enzyme compositions comprising the variants, and methods for using the variants in industrial applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Codexis, Inc.
    Inventors: Dipnath Baidyaroy, Louis Clark, Lisa M. Newman, Charlene Ching
  • Patent number: 8592559
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an antibody inhibiting infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV). The present invention provides an anti-hepatitis C virus antibody that recognizes a whole or a part of the conformation of a hepatitis C virus particle as an epitope and binds thereto, so as to be able to inhibit the binding of hepatitis C virus to the surface of a host cell and to inhibit HCV infection, a humanized antibody thereof, and an inhibitory agent for infection with hepatitis C virus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignees: Toray Industries, Inc., Japan as Represented by Director-General of National Institute of Infectious Diseases
    Inventors: Takaji Wakita, Kazumi Nishimura, Noriko Nakamura, Daisuke Akazawa
  • Patent number: 8557544
    Abstract: The present invention relates to blocking, inhibiting, reducing, antagonizing or neutralizing the activity of IL-17A and IL-17F. IL-17A and IL-17F are cytokines that are involved in inflammatory processes and human disease. The present invention includes antibodies that bind both IL-17A and IL-17F, hybridomas that produce the antibodies, and methods of using the same in inflammation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: ZymoGenetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen R. Jaspers, Scott R. Presnell, Monica J. Huber
  • Patent number: 8507214
    Abstract: The present invention provides an ELISA kit for detecting lincomycin comprising a coating antigen and an enzyme labeled reagent, wherein the coating antigen is selected from the group consisting of a lincomycin hapten-carrier protein conjugate, a lincomycin antibody and a lincomycin anti-antibody; when the coating antigen is the lincomycin hapten-carrier protein conjugate, the enzyme labeled reagent is an enzyme-labeled lincomycin anti-antibody; when the coating antigen is the lincomycin antibody, the enzyme labeled reagent is an enzyme-labeled lincomycin hapten-carrier protein conjugate; and when the coating antigen is the lincomycin anti-antibody, the enzyme labeled reagent is an enzyme-labeled lincomycin hapten-carrier protein conjugate; and the lincomycin hapten is obtained through the condensation reaction between lincomycin and succinic anhydride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Beijing Kwinbon Biotechnology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fangyang He, Yuping Wan, Caiwei Feng, Zhengmiao Zhao, Caimao Feng, Shanliang Wang, Xiaoqin Luo, Xiaobin Ma
  • Patent number: 8481288
    Abstract: The present invention relates to blocking, inhibiting, reducing, antagonizing or neutralizing the activity of IL-17A and IL-17F. IL-17A and IL-17F are cytokines that are involved in inflammatory processes and human disease. The present invention includes antibodies that bind both IL-17A and IL-17F, hybridomas that produce the antibodies, and methods of using the same in inflammation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: ZymoGenetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen R. Jaspers, Scott R. Presnell, Monica J. Huber
  • Patent number: 8475793
    Abstract: The invention relates to binding compounds that specifically bind to human TSLPR, as well as uses thereof, e.g., in the treatment of inflammatory disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Rene De Waal Malefyt, Leonard G. Presta
  • Patent number: 8394931
    Abstract: This invention concerns a panel of monoclonal antibodies against the High Mobility Group A 1 protein (HMGA1) and a process for preparing them, as well as the use of said antibodies for the quantitative determination of HMGA1 in biological fluids or in protein Iy sates deriving from lymphocyte cells. This invention also concerns a diagnostic kit for assessing risk factors related to the expression of the HMGA1 proteins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Areta International S.R.L.
    Inventors: Alfredo Fusco, Antonio Orlandi, Maria Luisa Nolli
  • Patent number: 8389227
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of diagnosis and therapy of cancers expressing the HER2 receptor. The invention provides antibodies or fragments thereof that recognizes an epitope of a HER2 receptor truncated form, said epitope being defined by a sequence included in SEQ ID NO: 2. The invention also provides a method of cancer diagnosis, which comprises the detection of the presence of the HER2 receptor truncated form consisting of the amino acid sequence SEQ ID NO: 1 in a patient sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignees: Fundacio Privada Institut de Recerca Hospital Universitari Vall Hebron, Fundacio Privada Institucio Catalana de Recera I Estudis Avancats, Fundacio Privada Institut d'Investigacio Oncologica de Vall Hebron
    Inventors: Joaquin Arribas Lopez, Kim Pedersen, Pier-Davide Angellini, Josep Liuis Parra Palau, Sirle Laos, Jose Baselga Torres
  • Patent number: 8323653
    Abstract: The present invention provides chimeric and humanized versions of anti-CD19 mouse monoclonal antibodies. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions, immunotherapeutic compositions, and methods using therapeutic antibodies that bind to the human CD19 antigen and that may mediate ADCC, CDC, and/or apoptosis for the treatment of B cell diseases and disorders, such as, but not limited to, B cell malignancies, for the treatment and prevention of autoimmune disease, and for the treatment and prevention of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), humoral rejection, and post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disorder in human transplant recipients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: MedImmune, LLC
    Inventors: Melissa Damschroder, Peter Kiener, Herren Wu, William Dall'Acqua, Ronald Herbst, Anthony Coyle
  • Patent number: 8304258
    Abstract: The present invention concerns antibodies specific for the C-terminus of human hepcidin, and related methods and kits for diagnosing and/or treating a disease condition characterized by non-physiological levels of hepcidin protein, including prohepcidin and fragments thereof, comprising obtaining a tissue or fluid sample from a subject; contacting the sample with an antibody or fragment thereof that specifically binds to a polypeptide corresponding to the amino acid sequence between and including amino acids 60 and 84, or, in another embodiment, amino acids 74 and 81, as aligned with the human pre-pro-hepcidin precursor protein, and quantifying the pro-hepcidin and/or mature hepcidin level using an assay based on binding of the antibody and the polypeptide; wherein the non-physiological level of prohepcidin/mature hepcidin is indicative of the disease condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: DRG International, Inc.
    Inventors: Hasan Kulaksiz, Cyril E. Geacintov, Alfred Janetzko
  • Patent number: 8278424
    Abstract: Antibodies and molecules derived therefrom that bind to novel PSCA protein, and variants thereof, are described wherein PSCA exhibits tissue specific expression in normal adult tissue, and is aberrantly expressed in the cancers listed in Table I. Consequently, PSCA provides a diagnostic, prognostic, prophylactic and/or therapeutic target for cancer. The PSCA gene or fragment thereof, or its encoded protein, or variants thereof, or a fragment thereof, can be used to elicit a humoral or cellular immune response; antibodies or T cells reactive with PSCA can be used in active or passive immunization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Agensys, Inc.
    Inventors: Jean Gudas, Aya Jakobovits, Xiao-chi Jia, Robert Kendall Morrison, Karen Jane Meyrick Morrison, Hui Shao, Pia M. Challita-Eid, Arthur B. Raitano
  • Patent number: 8187602
    Abstract: The present invention discloses anti-histone H1 monoclonal antibodies, hybridomas for the production thereof, and polypeptides, which are useful for suppressing, predicting, or diagnosing transplant rejection in organ transplantation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Amateraspharma Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Goto, Shuji Sato, Kazuhisa Ono, Seiko Shigeta, Seiji Kawamoto, Shigeru Goto
  • Patent number: 7906624
    Abstract: A multimeric peptidomimetic that comprises two or more monomers is disclosed. The monomers comprise an exocyclic peptide comprising a ring structure, a flexible linker sequence and a multimeric motif. Use of the monomers, a nucleic acid molecule encoding monomers, recombinant expression vectors comprising the nucleic acid molecule and host cells comprising a recombinant expression vector are disclosed. Methods of delivering a drug, a toxin, a nucleic acid molecule, a radionuclide or a detectable compound to a cell are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: Mark I. Greene, Ramachandran Murali, Hongtao Zhang
  • Patent number: 7879984
    Abstract: A human antibody or antigen-binding fragment of an antibody that specifically binds human CD20 and is capable of inducing complement dependent cytotoxicity (CDC), and is capable of increasing symptom free survival time between about 2-fold to about 9-fold or more, relative to control-treated animals in a mouse model of human lymphoma. The antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof is useful in a therapeutic method for treating a CD20-mediated disease or condition, such as for example, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, Crohn's disease, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and inflammatory diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel H. Martin, Li-Hsien Wang, Sean Stevens, Erin M. Allison
  • Patent number: 7772372
    Abstract: The present invention features polypeptides, such as antibodies, and their use in the treatment and diagnosis of neoplasms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Patrys Limited
    Inventors: Hans-Konrad Mueller-Hermelink, Heinz Vollmers
  • Patent number: 7598344
    Abstract: The present invention includes a bifunctional specificity structure that includes a peptide linker having a first and a second binding domain, wherein the first binding domain is selective for a first biomaterial and the second binding domain is selective for a second biomaterial. The present invention also includes a method of making and identifying the bifunctional structure of the present invention and methods of using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Angela M. Belcher, Christine J. Schmidt, Kiley P. H. Miller, Archit Sanghvi
  • Patent number: 7572895
    Abstract: The invention provides further characterization of the disease and cancer-associated antigen, transferrin receptor. The invention also provides a novel family of antibodies that bind to the transferrin receptor, methods of diagnosing and treating various human cancers and diseases that express transferrin receptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Raven Biotechnologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennie P. Mather, Penelope E. Roberts, Ronghao Li
  • Patent number: 7514082
    Abstract: Disclosed are a novel virus suppressing factor (VSF) protein having antiviral activity against a variety of viruses and a hybridoma secreting such a VSF protein. In addition, the present invention discloses a pharmaceutical composition comprising the VSF protein for prevention or treatment of viral infections in humans and animals, and a method of preventing or treating viral infections using such a pharmaceutical composition. The VSF protein has strong antiviral activity against a variety of viruses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Immunemed, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoon-Won Kim, Young-Jin Kim, Yo-Han Choi, Jee-Yin Ahn, Soo-Dong Woo, Song-Woo Sin, Min-Kee Cho, Young-Hwan Byun, Jeung-Yul Kang
  • Patent number: 7422739
    Abstract: Disclosed are chimeric, immunologically active, isolated, and radiolabeled antibodies directed against the CD20 antigen. The antibodies are useful for treating and diagnosing B cell disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Biogen Idec Inc.
    Inventors: Darrell R. Anderson, Nabil Hanna, Roland A. Newman, Mitchell E. Reff, William H. Rastetter
  • Patent number: 7220559
    Abstract: This invention provides: a heteromyeloma, other than B6B11, capable of producing a trioma when fused with a human lymphoid cell, wherein the trioma is capable of producing a monoclonal antibody-secreting tetroma when fused with a second, antibody-secreting human lymphoid cell; a trioma fusion partner which does not produce antibody, obtained by fusing a heteromyeloma which does not produce antibody with a human lymphoid cell; a monoclonal antibody-secreting tetroma, obtained by fusing a trioma which does not produce antibody with an antibody-secreting human lymphoid cell; a method of producing a monoclonal antibody that specifically recognizes an antigen associated with a condition; a method of identifying an antigen associated with a condition using the trioma fusion partner; a method of diagnosing a condition using the trioma fusion partner; a method for preventing a condition; and compositions and therapeutic compositions comprising monoclonal antibodies produced using the trioma fusion partner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventor: Ilya Trakht
  • Patent number: 7186686
    Abstract: A composition is disclosed that comprises a mixture of polypeptides of opposite charge and an excipient selected from the group consisting of arginine, lysine, glutamic acid, sodium dodecyl sulfate, beta-hydroxy cyclodextrin, and beta-cyclodextrin sulfobutyl ether.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: James Q. Oeswein, John R. Smikahl, Sharon X. Wang, Douglas A. Yeung
  • Patent number: 7166697
    Abstract: The present invention relates to binding moieties comprising at least one monomeric V-like domain (VLD) derived from a non-antibody ligand, the at least one monomeric V-like domain being characterized in that at least one CDR loop structure or part thereof is modified or replaced such that the solubility of the modified VLD is improved when compared with the unmodified VLD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Diatech Pty. Ltd.
    Inventors: Maria Galanis, Peter John Hudson, Robert Alexander Irving, Stewart Douglas Nuttall
  • Patent number: 6844423
    Abstract: The production of a purified extracellular bacterial signal called autoinducer-2 is regulated by changes in environmental conditions associated with a shift from a free-living existence to a colonizing or pathogenic existence in a host organism. Autoinducer-2 stimulates LuxQ luminescence genes, and is believed also to stimulate a variety of pathogenesis related genes in the bacterial species that produce it. A new class of bacterial genes is involved in the biosynthesis of autoinducer-2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignees: Princeton University, University Technologies Transfer International
    Inventors: Bonnie L. Bassler, Michael G. Surette
  • Patent number: 6596536
    Abstract: An isolated antibody that specifically binds a peptide coded by a nucleotide sequence coding for a variable region of &agr; chain of an human T lymphocyte receptor, said nucleotide sequence having a nucleotide sequence chosen from any of: V&agr; segments having any one of the sequences SEQ ID Nos. 1 to 11 or J&agr; segments having one of the sequence SEQ ID Nos. 13 or 15 to 19 and hybridomas producing said antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Aventis Pharma S.A.
    Inventors: Thierry Hercend, Frederic Triebel, Sergio Roman-Roman, Laurent Ferradini
  • Publication number: 20020198360
    Abstract: Polypeptides containing a series of heptad-repeats that mimic a transmembrane domain and a selected cytoplasmic domain attached to the series of heptad repeats are provided which can be used in construction of structural models for evaluating the structure and activity of occupied, clustered and heteromeric transmembrane proteins and identifying therapeutic compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 1999
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Inventors: MARK H. GINSBERG, MARTIN PFAFF
  • Patent number: 6432402
    Abstract: The present invention provides an anti-idiotypic monoclonal antibody which specifically induces an immune response against a glycosphingolipid. Additionally, this invention provides a method of producing the anti-idiotypic monoclonal antibody. Finally, this invention provides a composition of matter comprising an effective amount of a cytokine and a melanoma ganglioside-specific antibody attached to a carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
    Inventors: Paul B. Chapman, Alan N. Houghton
  • Patent number: 6407217
    Abstract: The present invention provides an imidazolinone hapten having the structural formula Further provided are an antigen and an enzyme conjugate which are prepared from the imidazolinone hapten. The haptens, antigens and enzyme conjugates provided are useful in immunoassays for determining the presence and concentration of an imidazolinone compound in the presence of one or more other imidazolinone compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: American Cyanamid Company
    Inventors: Rosie Bick-Har Wong, Joseph Luke Pont, Alvin Donald Crews, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6407218
    Abstract: The methods and compositions of the present invention are directed to enhancing an immune response and increasing vaccine efficacy through the simultaneous or sequential targeting of specific immune system components. More particularly, specific immune components, such as macrophages, dendritic cells, B cells and T cells, are individually activated by component-specific immunostimulating agents. One such component-specific immunostimulating agent is an antigen-specific, species-specific monoclonal antibody. The invention is also directed to a method for the in vitro production of the antigen-specific, species-specific monoclonal antibodies which relies upon the in vitro conversion of blood-borne immune cells, such as macrophages and lymphocytes. Vaccine efficacy is enhanced by the administration of compositions containing component-specific immunostimulating agents and other elements, such as antigens or carrier particles, such as colloidal methods, such as gold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: CYTImmune Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Tamarkin, Giulio F. Paciotti
  • Patent number: 6395282
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an immunogenic conjugate comprising a carrier molecule coupled to an autoinducer of a Gram negative bacteria. The immunogenic conjugate, when combined with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, forms a suitable vaccine for mammals to prevent infection by the Gram negative bacteria. The immunogenic conjugate is also used to raise and subsequently isolate antibodies or binding portions thereof which are capable of recognizing and binding to the autoinducer. The antibodies or binding portions thereof are utilized in a method of treating infections, a method of inhibiting autoinducer activity, and in diagnostic assays which detect the presence of autoinducers or autoinducer antagonists in fluid or tissue samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: University of Rochester
    Inventors: Andrew S. Kende, Barbara H. Iglewski, Roger Smith, Richard P. Phipps, James P. Pearson
  • Patent number: 6326159
    Abstract: Receptors are disclosed that are antibodies that exhibit a binding affinity for an immune complex of a monoepitopic antigen and an antibody for such antigen that is substantially greater than the binding affinity for the monoepitopic antigen or the antibody for the monoepitopic antigen apart from the immune complex. Normally, the monoepitopic antigen has a molecular weight less than 1500 and is an organic compound. The antibodies of the present invention find use in a method for determining a monoepitopic antigen in a sample suspected of containing such antigen. The method comprises forming an immune sandwich complex comprising the monoepitopic antigen or an analog thereof, a first monoclonal antibody that binds to the monoepitopic antigen, and a second monoclonal antibody that is an antibody of the present invention and detecting the immune sandwich complex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Dade Behring Marburg GmbH
    Inventors: Edwin F. Ullman, John Jelesko, Marcel R. Pirio, Thomas D. Kempe
  • Patent number: 6300104
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing secretory Ig molecules. The method comprises transfecting a cell producing an Ig with a polynucleotide encoding an SC to fonn SC transfected Ig producing cells. Secretory Ig molecules, such as secretory IgA, can be used to treat or prevent infection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Sherie L. Morrison, Kote R. Chintalacharuvu
  • Patent number: 6277964
    Abstract: The present invention provides monoclonal antibodies suitable for monitoring polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) by an immunoasay, hybridoma cell lines producing said antibodies, and an immunoassay for analyzing PAHs in a sample using said monoclonal antibodies. In addition, the present invention provides PAH conjugates useful as an immunogen in preparing said antibodies and as a standard substance in a competitive assay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Osaka Gas Company Limited
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Yamashita, Kazunobu Miura, Naoya Ichimura, Chiwa Kataoka, Junko Sakaki, Yutaka Ohtani, Hirohisa Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 6239259
    Abstract: A multivalent antigen-binding protein comprises a first polypeptide comprising, in series, three or more variable domains of an antibody heavy chain and a second polypeptide comprising, in series, three of more variable domains of an antibody light chain, said first and second polypeptides being linked by association of the respective heavy chain and light chain variable domains, each associated variable domain pair forming an antigen binding site. Methods for their production and uses thereof, in particular for therapeutic and diagnostic applications, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Patent Holdings B.V.
    Inventors: Paul J. Davis, Cornelis P. Logt van der, Martine E. Verhoeyen
  • Patent number: 6222014
    Abstract: The invention provides nrdE polypeptides and polynucleotides encoding nrdE polypeptides and methods for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques. Also provided are methods for utilizing nrdE polypeptides to screen for antibacterial compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: SmithKline Beecham Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Terence Black, Christopher M Traini, Edwina Imogen Wilding
  • Patent number: 6172188
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel variants of the fluorescent protein GFP having improved fluorescence properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Inventors: Ole Thastrup, Søren Tullin, Lars Kongsbak Poulsen, Sara Petersen Bjørn
  • Patent number: 6165472
    Abstract: The invention provides folC polypeptides and DNA (RNA) encoding folC polypeptides and methods for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques. Also provided are methods for utilizing folC polypeptides to screen for antibacterial compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: SmithKline Beecham Corporation
    Inventors: Stewart Campbell Pearson, Rebecca Claire Greenwood
  • Patent number: 6159751
    Abstract: This invention provides a method for preparing a hybridoma cell line which produces a monoclonal antibody which specifically recognizes and binds to a tumor associated antigen which comprises: (a) cotransfecting a CREF-Trans 6 cell line with DNA isolated from a neoplastic, human cell and a plasmid which encodes a selectable or identifiable trait; (b) selecting transfected cells which express the selectable or identifiable trait; (c) recovering the cells so selected in step (b); (d) injecting the cells so recovered in step (c) into a suitable marine host; (e) maintaining the resulting first murine host for a period of time effective to induce the cells injected in step (d) to form a tumor in the murine host; (f) isolating the tumor formed in step (e); (g) obtaining tumor cells from the isolated tumor in step (f); (h) coating the tumor cells obtained in step (9) with an antiserum generated against the CREF Trans-6 cell line (i) injecting the antiserum-coated cells from step (h) into a plurality of suitable seco
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventor: Paul B. Fisher
  • Patent number: 6072029
    Abstract: The invention relates to an analog of human .alpha..sub.1 -antitrypsin characterized in that it is all or part of the protein corresponding to human .alpha..sub.1 -antitrypsin in which, in 358 position, the amino-acid is selected from among arginine and little or non-oxidizable natural amino-acids when they are integrated into a protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Transgene S.A.
    Inventors: Michael Courtney, Luc-Henri Tessier, Sophie Jallat, Jean-Pierre Lecocq
  • Patent number: 6048527
    Abstract: Novel bactericidal antibodies against Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B ("MenB") are disclosed. The antibodies either do not cross-react or minimally cross-react with host tissue polysialic acid and hence pose minimal risk of autoimmune activity. The antibodies are used to identify molecular mimetics of unique epitopes found on MenB or E. coli K1. Examples of such peptide mimetics are described that elicit serum antibody capable of activating complement-mediated bacteriolysis of MenB. Vaccine compositions containing such mimetics can be used to prevent MenB or E. coli K1 disease without the risk of evoking autoantibody.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Assignees: Chiron Corporation, Children's Hospital Medical Center of Northern California
    Inventors: Dan M. Granoff, Gregory R. Moe
  • Patent number: 6022951
    Abstract: The present invention relates to streptavidin proteins and peptides having a altered physical properties such as an increased stability or increased or decreased affinity for binding biotin. The invention also relates to methods for the detection, identification, separation and isolation of targets using streptavidin proteins or peptides. Streptavidin with increased or reduced affinity allows for the use of the streptavidin-biotin coupling systems for detection and isolation systems wherein it is necessary to remove of one or the other of the binding partners. Such systems are useful for the purification of functional proteins and viable cells. The invention also relates to nucleic acids which encode these streptavidin proteins and peptides and to recombinant cells such as bacteria, yeast and mammalian cells which contain these nucleic acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Inventors: Takeshi Sano, Charles R. Cantor, Sandor Vajda, Gabriel O. Reznik, Cassandra L. Smith, Mark W. Pandori
  • Patent number: 6013478
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for the systematic analysis of the structure and function of polypeptides by identifying active domains which influence the activity of the polypeptide with a target substance. Such active domains are determined by substituting selected amino acid segments of the polypeptide with an analogous polypeptide segment from an analog to the polypeptide. The analog has a different activity with the target substance as compared to the parent polypeptide. The activities of the segment-substituted polypeptides are compared to the same activity for the parent polypeptide for the target. A comparison of such activities provides an indication of the location of the active domain in the parent polypeptide. The invention also provides methods for identifying the active amino acid residues within the active domain of the parent polypeptide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: James A. Wells, Brian C. Cunningham
  • Patent number: 5990297
    Abstract: A human monoclonal antibody specifically binding to a surface antigen of cancer cell membrane, an isolated DNA encoding the antibody, and a hybridoma producing the antibody. An anti-cancer formulation comprising the monoclonal antibody bonded to the surface of a liposome enclosing an anti-cancer agent or toxin is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Saiko Hosokawa, Toshiaki Tagawa, Yoko Hirakawa, Norihiko Ito, Kazuhiro Nagaike
  • Patent number: 5972628
    Abstract: A qualitative, quantitative, as well as local determination of pyruvatkinase (ATP:pyruvate-2-O-phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.40)-isoenzyme typ M2 (Tumor-M2-PK) is possible in blood, plasma, tissue culture, tissue sections as well as in the animal and human organism with the help of antibodies.Corresponding antisera are obtained if highly purified pyruvatekinase-isoenzymes type M2 (Tumor-M2-PK) or fragments of these, are used as immunogen. Preferable are antisera with monoclonal antibodies.These antibodies can be used in ELISA-Test systems for the diagnosis of cancer, to determine the malignancy of cells, to localize a tumor in an organism as well as for the therapy of cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: ScheBo Tech Medizinisch-Biologische Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Eigenbrodt, Manfred Reinacher, Ursula Scheefers-Borchel, Hans Scheefers