ENGINEERED IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN-LIGHT CHAIN PAIRS AND USES THEREOF

摘要

The present invention provides heterodimer pairs that can comprise a first heterodimer and a second heterodimer wherein each heterodimer comprises an immunoglobulin heavy chain or fragment thereof and an immunoglobulin light chain or fragment thereof. At least one of the heterodimers can comprise one or more amino acid modifications in the C H and/or C L domains, one or more amino acid modifications in the V H and/or V L domains, or a combination thereof. The modified amino acid(s) can be part of the interface between the light chain and heavy chain and are typically modified to create preferential pairing between each heavy chain and a desired light chain such that when the two heavy chains and two light chains of the heterodimer pair are co-expressed in a cell, the heavy chain of the first heterodimer preferentially pairs with one of the light chains rather than the other. Likewise, the heavy chain of the second heterodimer typically preferentially pairs with the second light chain rather than first.

主权项

1. An isolated antigen binding polypeptide construct comprising at least a first heterodimer and a second heterodimer,
the first heterodimer comprising a first immunoglobulin heavy chain polypeptide sequence (H1), and a first immunoglobulin light chain polypeptide sequence (L1); and the second heterodimer comprising a second immunoglobulin heavy chain polypeptide sequence (H2), and a second immunoglobulin light chain polypeptide sequence (L2), wherein at least one of the H1 or L1 sequences of the first heterodimer is distinct from the corresponding H2 or L2 sequence of the second heterodimer, and wherein H1 and H2 each comprise at least a heavy chain variable domain (VH domain) and a heavy chain constant domain (CH1 domain); L1 and L2 each comprise at least a light chain variable domain (VL domain) and a light chain constant domain (CL domain); and at least one of H1, H2, L1 and L2 comprises at least one amino acid modification of at least one constant domain and/or at least one variable domain, wherein H1 preferentially pairs with L1 as compared to L2 and H2 preferentially pairs with L2 as compared to L1.