申请人:Newbiotics Inc.
公开号:EP1167972A2
公开(公告)日:2002-01-02
This invention provides a method for identifying potential therapeutic agents by contacting a target cell with a candidate therapeutic agent which is a selective substrate for an endogenous, intracellular enzyme in the cell which is enhanced in its expression as a result of selection by biologic or chemotherapy. This invention also provides methods and examples of molecules for selectively killing a pathological cell by contacting the cell with a prodrug that is a selective substrate for an endogenous, intracellular enzyme. The prodrug is subsequently converted to a cellular toxin. Further provided by this invention is a method for treating a pathology characterized by pathological, hyperproliferative cells in a subject by administering to the subject a prodrug that is a selective substrate for an endogenous, overexpressed, intracellular enzyme, and converted by the enzyme to a cellular toxin in the hyperproliferative cell.
本发明提供了一种用于鉴定潜在治疗剂的方法,方法是将候选治疗剂与靶细胞接触,候选治疗剂是细胞中内源性细胞内酶的选择性底物,这种细胞内酶由于生物或化疗的选择而表达增强。本发明还提供了选择性杀死病理细胞的分子的方法和实例,方法是使细胞与一种原药接触,该原药是一种内源性细胞内酶的选择性底物。原药随后转化为细胞毒素。本发明还提供了一种治疗以病理细胞过度增殖为特征的病症的方法,该方法是向受试者施用一种原药,该原药是一种内源性、过度表达的细胞内酶的选择性底物,并在过度增殖细胞中被该酶转化为细胞毒素。