Polypeptide compositions comprising spacers
AssigneePrecigen, Inc.
InventorRutul R. Shah
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are methods and compositions including antigen-binding polypeptides comprising a stalk region and a stalk extension region. In some cases, the antigen-binding compositions comprising the stalk extension region has increased expression on a cell surface and, in some cases, has increased antigen-binding efficiency. A subject antigen binding polypeptide can be a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR).
Claims34
A chimeric polypeptide comprising:
- (a) an antigen-binding region;
- (b) a transmembrane region;
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- (c) a spacer region connecting the trans-membrane region with the antigen binding region, wherein the spacer region comprises:
- (i) a stalk region comprising about 20 to about 60 amino acids and at least one dimerization site;
- and (ii) one to five stalk extension regions, wherein each stalk extension region comprises fewer dimerization sites than the stalk region.
A method of increasing expansion of an engineered T cell expressing a chimeric polypeptide comprising engineering a nucleic acid encoding the chimeric polypeptide to comprise a stalk extension domain, thereby generating an engineered T cell.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.