ANTIBODY MOLECULES HAVING SPECIFICITY FOR HUMAN TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA, AND USE THEREOF

• Main Authors: DEREK THOMAS BROWN, ANDREW NEIL CHARLES WEIR, ANDREW PAUL CHAPMAN, DILJEET SINGH ATHWAL, ANDREW GEORGE POPPLEWELL, DAVID JOHN KING
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Portuguese
• Published: 08.03.2010
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYMOLOGY; FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIREDCHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERSFROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PEPTIDES; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS; SPIRITS; VINEGAR; WINE

There is disclosed antibody molecules containing at least one CDR derived from a mouse monoclonal antibody having specificity for human TNF± There is also disclosed a CDR grafted antibody wherein at least one of the CDRs is a hybrid CDR Further disclosed are DNA sequences encoding the chains of the antibody molecules, vectors, transformed host cells and uses of the antibody molecules in the treatment of diseases mediated by TNF±