Anti-CD98hc VNARs for Crossing the Blood Brain Barrier and Type IV VNAR Libraries

    公开(公告)号:US20220177597A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-09

    申请号:US17255378

    申请日:2019-06-19

    Applicant: Ossianix, Inc.

    Abstract: The present invention relates to CD98hc binding moieties with high specificity and with ability to cross the blood brain barrier (BBB). Such moieties may be used alone or as components in specific conjugates that target the amino acid transporter complexes formed with a light chain and CD98hc. The invention relates more specifically to VNAR single chain antibodies derived from nurse shark that bind to CD98hc, compounds and compositions comprising a CD98hc-specific binding moiety, diagnostic and therapeutic methods of use in vitro or in vivo, e.g., to diagnose, treat and/or prevent a pathological condition, disorder or disease in which it is beneficial to deliver a heterologous biomolecule across the blood brain barrier by association with a CD98hc-specific VNAR binding moiety. The invention also includes Type IV semi-synthetic VNAR libraries derived from shark VNARs for selection of binding moieties that specifically bind to a molecular or cellular target of interest.

    Shark VNARs for treating COVID-19
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11345742B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-31

    申请号:US17343444

    申请日:2021-06-09

    Applicant: Ossianix, Inc.

    Abstract: The present disclosure provides coronavirus S1-fragment specific binding moieties comprising Type II VNAR domains, VNAR antibodies, methods of using those moieties and antibodies to treat COVID-19. In some embodiments, a VNAR antibody, originally selected from a phage display library as a VNAR clone using S1fragments from the SARS-CoV-2 Wuhan strain, are also effective at specifically binding to and/or neutralizing SARS-CoV-2 and certain SARS-CoV-2 mutants.

    Semi-synthetic nurse shark VNAR libraries for making and using selective binding compounds

    公开(公告)号:US11339389B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-24

    申请号:US16592017

    申请日:2019-10-03

    Applicant: Ossianix, Inc.

    Abstract: The present invention relates to VNAR single chain antibodies and more particularly, to semi-synthetic VNAR libraries derived from nurse shark which may be used to identify individual clones, nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides which encode binding moieties that specifically bind to a cellular target of interest, thereby altering (e.g., antagonizing) target activity in a cell or mimicking the activity of a native molecule. The present invention thus also relates to compounds and compositions comprising a target specific VNAR binding moiety, methods for preparing them, and diagnostic and therapeutic methods of use relating to regulation, e.g., agonism or antagonism of the selected cellular target or target pathway e.g., to treat and/or prevent a pathological condition, disorder or disease in which it is beneficial to alter, e.g., agonize or augment, antagonize, reduce or eliminate the specific cellular target activity.

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