Glycosyl-etoposide prodrugs, a process for preparation thereof and the use thereof in combination with functionalized tumor-specific enzyme conjugates
AssigneeAventis Pharma Deutschland GmbH
InventorsCenek Kolar, Jörg Czech, Klaus Bosslet, Gerhard Seemann, Hans-Harald Sedlacek, Dieter Hoffman
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The present invention relates to glycosyl-etoposide prodrugs, a process for the preparation thereof and the use thereof in combination with functionalized tumor-specific enzyme conjugates for treating cancers.
Claims6
A fusion protein for prodrug activation of the formula huTuMab-L-β-Gluc, where huTuMab is a tumor-binding fragment of a humanized monoclonal antibody wherein the tumor-binding fragment huTuMab comprises a VH region, a CH1 region, and at least one hinge region, L is a peptide linker which comprises a hinge region, and β-Gluc is human β-glucuronidase.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.