Recombinant antibodies specific for a growth factor receptor

• Main Authors: NORMAN HARDMAN, BERND GRONER, INA-MARIA HARWERTH, WINFRIED STEPHAN WELS, MARKUS ZWICKL, NANCY E HUNES
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 07.05.1997
• Edition: 5
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CULTURE MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS; ENZYMOLOGY; FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIREDCHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERSFROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; IDENTIFICATION; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEASURING; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PEPTIDES; PHYSICS; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PROCESSES USING MICROORGANISMS; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS; SPIRITS; SURGERY; TESTING; VINEGAR; WINE

The invention concerns recombinant antibodies directed to the extracellular domain of the human growth factor receptor c-erbB-2 comprising a light chain variable domain and a heavy chain variable domain of a monoclonal antibody, monoclonal antibodies directed to c-erbB-2 themselves, a method of manufacture of said recombinant antibodies and said monoclonal antibodies, hybridoma cells secreting said monoclonal antibodies, a method of manufacture of said hybridoma cells, DNA coding for the heavy chain variable domain, for the light chain variable domain and for the recombinant antibody, a method of manufacture of said DNA, hybrid vectors suitable for expression of said DNA, host cells transformed with said DNA, and the use of said recombinant antibodies and said monoclonal antibodies in the diagnosis and treatment of tumors.