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US 11,453,703 B2Granted
Heterotandem bicyclic peptide complexes
AssigneeBicycleTx Limited
InventorsNicholas Keen, Kevin McDonnell, Peter Park, Punit Upadhyaya, Gemma Mudd
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Abstract
The present invention relates to heterotandem bicyclic peptide complexes which comprise a first peptide ligand, which binds to a component present on an immune cell, conjugated via a linker to a second peptide ligand, which binds to a component present on a cancer cell. The invention also relates to the use of said heterotandem bicyclic peptide complexes in preventing, suppressing or treating cancer.
Claims17
A heterotandem bicyclic peptide complex comprising:
- (a) a first peptide ligand which binds to CD137 on an immune cell;
- conjugated via a linker to
- (b) a second peptide ligand which binds to a component present on a cancer cell, wherein the component present on a cancer cell is EphA2;
- wherein each of said peptide ligands comprises a polypeptide comprising three cysteine residues, separated by two loop sequences, and a molecular scaffold which forms covalent bonds with the cysteine residues of the polypeptide such that two polypeptide loops are formed on the molecular scaffold,
- wherein the first peptide ligand is a CD137 binding bicyclic peptide ligand comprising an amino acid sequence selected from:
- CiIEEGQYCiiFADPY[Nle]Ciii (SEQ ID NO:
- 1);
- Ci[tBuAla]PE[D-Ala]PYCiiFADPY[Nle]Ciii (SEQ ID NO:
- 3);
- CiIEEGQYCiiF[D-Ala]DPY[Nle]Ciii (SEQ ID NO:
- 4);
- Ci[tBuAla]PK[D-Ala]PYCiiFADPY[Nle]Ciii (SEQ ID NO:
- 5);
- Ci[tBuAla]PE[D-Lys]PYCiiFADPY[Nle]Ciii (SEQ ID NO:
- 6);
- Ci[tBuAla]P[K(PYA)][D-Ala]PYCiiFADPY[Nle]Ciii (SEQ ID NO:
- 7);
- Ci[tBuAla]PE[D-Lys(PYA)]PYCiiFADPY[Nle]Ciii (SEQ ID NO:
- 8);
- CiIEE[D-Lys(PYA)]QYCiiFADPY(Nle)Ciii (SEQ ID NO:
- 9);
- and
- [dCi][dI][dE][dE][K(PYA)][dQ][dY][dCii][dF][dA][dD][dP][dY][dNle][dCiii] (SEQ ID NO:
- 10);
- and
- wherein the second peptide ligand is an EphA2 binding bicyclic peptide ligand comprising an amino acid sequence selected from:
- Ci[HyP]LVNPLCiiLHP[dD]W[HArg]Ciii (SEQ ID NO:
- 2);
- and
- CiLWDPTPCiiANLHL[HArg]Ciii (SEQ ID NO:
- 11);
- wherein Ci, Cii and Ciii represent first, second and third cysteine residues, respectively, Nle represents norleucine, tBuAla represents t-butyl-alanine, PYA represents 4-pentynoic acid, HyP represents hydroxyproline, dD represents aspartic acid in D-configuration, and HArg represents homoarginine, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
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