Polymeric Carriers of Therapeutic Agents and Recognition Moieties for Antibody-Based Targeting of Disease Sites
申请人:Govindan Serengulam V.
公开号:US20080171067A1
公开(公告)日:2008-07-17
The present invention concerns methods and compositions for delivery of therapeutic agents to target cells, tissues or organisms. In preferred embodiments, the therapeutic agents are delivered in the form of therapeutic-loaded polymers that may comprise many copies of one or more therapeutic agents. In more preferred embodiments, the polymer may be conjugated to a peptide moiety that contains one or more haptens, such as HSG. The agent-polymer-peptide complex may be delivered to target cells by, for example, a pre-targeting technique utilizing bispecific or multispecific antibodies or fragments, having at least one binding arm that recognizes the hapten and at least a second binding arm that binds specifically to a disease or pathogen associated antigen, such as a tumor associated antigen. Methods for synthesizing and using such therapeutic-loaded polymers and their conjugates are provided.
本发明涉及将治疗剂递送到目标细胞、组织或生物体的方法和组合物。在优选的实施例中,治疗剂以负载治疗剂的聚合物形式递送,该聚合物可能包含一个或多个治疗剂的许多拷贝。在更优选的实施例中,聚合物可以与含有一种或多种半抗原的肽部分结合,例如HSG。例如,通过使用双特异性或多特异性抗体或片段的预定位技术,将治疗剂-聚合物-肽复合物递送到目标细胞,该抗体或片段至少有一个结合臂识别半抗原,并且至少有第二个结合臂特异性地结合到与疾病或病原体相关的抗原,例如肿瘤相关抗原。本发明提供了合成和使用此类负载治疗剂的聚合物及其缀合物的方法。