申请人:Prolinx, Inc.
公开号:US05594151A1
公开(公告)日:1997-01-14
The present invention relates to a novel class of phenylboronic acid complexing reagents useful for the preparation of bioconjugates, and the method of making and using such reagents. In the present invention, in the place of prior art Avidin-Biotin and Digoxigenin-anti-Digoxigenin systems, phenylboronic acid complexing reagents are utilized in conjunction with phenylboronic acid reagents (many of which are known in the prior art) to facilitate chemical conjugation without the use of intermediary biological macromolecules. Reagents suitable for the modification of a bioactive species for the purpose of incorporating a phenylboronic acid complexing moiety for subsequent conjugation to a different bioactive species having pendant phenylboronic acid moleties are of General Formula I or General Formula II. ##STR1## wherein group X is selected from either H, OH, NH.sub.2, NHCH.sub.3, NHOH and NHOCH.sub.3, wherein group Y is selected from either O, S and NH, and wherein group Z comprises a spacer which either separates the boronic acid complexing moiety from group R, as in General Formula I, or seperates two boronic acid complexing moieties, as in General Formula II. Group R is a reactive electrophilic or nucleophilic moiety suitable for reaction of the phenylboronic acid complexing reagent with a bioactive species.
本发明涉及一种新型苯硼酸络合试剂类,用于制备生物共轭物,并且涉及制备和使用此类试剂的方法。在本发明中,苯硼酸络合试剂与苯硼酸试剂(其中许多已知于现有技术)一起使用,以取代以往的亲和素-生物素和地高辛-抗地高辛系统,从而在不使用中间生物大分子的情况下促进化学共轭。适用于修饰生物活性物种以将苯硼酸络合基团并入以后与具有挂链苯硼酸基团的不同生物活性物种共轭的试剂的一般公式I或一般公式II如下:##STR1## 其中,基团X从H、OH、NH.sub.2、NHCH.sub.3、NHOH和NHOCH.sub.3中选择,基团Y从O、S和NH中选择,基团Z包括将硼酸络合基团与基团R分离的间隔,如一般式I中所示,或将两个硼酸络合基团分离的间隔,如一般式II中所示。基团R是适合将苯硼酸络合试剂与生物活性物种反应的反应性亲电或亲核基团。