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USOO82363.08B2 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 8.236,308 B2 Kischel et al. (45) Date of Patent: Aug. 7, 2012 (54) COMPOSITION COMPRISING McLaughlin et al., Cancer Immunol. Immunother, 1999.48, 303 CROSS-SPECIES-SPECIFIC ANTIBODES 3.11. AND USES THEREOF The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, “Points to Consider in the Manufacture and Testing of Monoclonal (75) Inventors: Roman Kischel, Karlsfeld (DE); Tobias Antibody Products for Human Use.” pp. 1-50 Feb. 28, 1997.* Raum, München (DE); Bernd Hexham et al., Molecular Immunology 38 (2001) 397-408.* Schlereth, Germering (DE); Doris Rau, Gallart et al., Blood, vol.90, No. 4 Aug. 15, 1997: pp. 1576-1587.* Unterhaching (DE); Ronny Cierpka, Vajdos et al., J Mol Biol. Jul. 5, 2002:320(2):415-28.* München (DE); Peter Kufer, Moosburg Rudikoff et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 79: 1979-1983, Mar. (DE) 1982.* Colman P. 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Primary Examiner — Zachary Skelding (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm — Foley & Lardner LLP (56) References Cited (57) ABSTRACT U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS The present invention relates to uses of bispecific antibodies 2002/0142000 A1 10/2002 Digan et al. exhibiting cross-species specificity for evaluating the in vivo 2002/0147312 A1 10, 2002 O'Keefe et al. 2005/020 1994 A1 9, 2005 Korman et al. safety and/or activity and/or pharmacokinetic profile of the 2006.0034835 A1 2, 2006 Adams et al. same in non-human species and humans. The present inven tion moreover relates to methods for evaluating the in vivo FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS safety and/or activity and/or pharmacokinetic profile of said WO WO 2004/106380 12, 2004 bispecific anti-bodies exhibiting cross-species specificity. WO WO 2005/061547 7/2005 The present invention also relates to methods of measuring WO WO 2006/084264 8, 2006 the biological activity and/or efficacy of such bispecific anti WO WO 2007OO8943 A2 * 1, 2007 bodies exhibiting cross-species specificity. In addition, the WO WO 2010.042904 A2 * 4, 2010 present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions OTHER PUBLICATIONS comprising bispecific single chain antibodies exhibiting Macket al., The Journal of Immunology, 1997, 158: 3965-3970.* cross-species specificity and to methods for the preparation of Yoshino et al., Exp Anim. Apr. 2000:49(2):97-110.* pharmaceutical compositions comprising said bispecific Harlow etal. Antibodies, A Laboratory Manual, Cold Spring Harbor single chain antibodies exhibiting cross-species specificity Laboratory, 1988, pp. 567-569.* for the treatment of diseases. Lammers et al., Experimental Hematology 30 (2002), pp. 537-545.* Offner et al., Cancer Immunol Immunother (2005) 54: 431-445.* 9 Claims, 41 Drawing Sheets US 8.236,308 B2 Page 2 OTHER PUBLICATIONS Office Action Received in the corresponding European Patent Appli Schlereth, Bernd et al., “T-Cell Activation and B-Cell Depletion in cation No. EP 06806 155.5, dated Mar. 24, 2010. Chimpanzees Treated with a Bispecific Anti-CD19/Anti-CD3 Davis, et al., "Affinity improvement of single antibodyVH domains: Single-Chain Antibody Construct”. Cancer Immunology and residues in all three hypervariable regions affect antigen binding'. Immunotherapy, Springer-Verlag, BE, May 2006, vol. 55(5), pp. Immunotechnology, vol. 2, 1996, pp. 169-179. 503-5 14. (XPO19333227). Holt, et al., “Domain antibodies: proteins for therapy”. TRENDs in Wolf, et al. “Bites: Bispecific Antibody Constructs with Unique Biotechnolgy, vol. 21, No. 11, pp. 484-490, 2003. Anti-Timor Activity”. DDT-Drug Discovery Today, Elsevier Science Ltd, GB, vol. 10 (18), pp. 1237-1244. (XP005103829), 2005. * cited by examiner U.S. Patent Aug. 7, 2012 Sheet 1 of 41 US 8,236,308 B2 FIGURE 1 Anti-CD3 OKT-3 g Comprising SEO D NOS. 6 and 8 g comprising SEO D NOS. 2 and 4 UCHT-1 U.S. Patent Aug. 7, 2012 Sheet 2 of 41 US 8,236,308 B2 FIGURE 2 Cynomolgus PBMC HPB-ALL lg comprising SEQID NOS. 2 and 4 g Comprising SEO D NOS. 6 and 8 FN-18 U.S. Patent Aug. 7, 2012 Sheet 3 of 41 US 8,236,308 B2 FIGURE 3 Kato ill HPB-ALL 8 5-1 OLHXSEOD 2 NO.16 d5 1 00 101 102 103 104 F 2-H y 3. 5-1 OLHXSEOD NO.14 3 so of 2 3 4 FL2-H human EpCAM transfected CHO HPB-ALL S 8 t 5-10LHxSEQID 8 NO.12 8 currences10 Oto 10 m 102 103 to F2H 8 8 t 5-1 OLHXSEO D gto 8 NO.10 8 00 O00 U.S. Patent Aug. 7, 2012 Sheet 4 of 41 US 8,236,308 B2 FIGURE 4 9 O A 5-1 OLHXSEOD NO.14 - v 5-1 OLHXSEQ D NO.12 O5 A. Y. ) 0 5-1 OLHXSEQD NO.10 1 5 - 10 105 10 103 102 1 0 1 OP 10 1 0 10° 10' concentration in ng/ml of bispecific antibody U.S. Patent Aug. 7, 2012 Sheet 5 of 41 US 8,236,308 B2 FIGURE 5 65 5-1OLHXSECR D NO.14 40 5-1 OLHXSECR D NO.12 8 5-1 OLHXSECR D NO.10 s 5-1 OLHXdi-anti CD3 O 15 SS - 10 10-5 10-4 10-3 10-2 10-1 100 101 102 103 104 concentration in ng/ml of bispecific antibody U.S. Patent Aug. 7, 2012 Sheet 7 of 41 US 8,236,308 B2 FIGURE 7 M79 3B10 2G8 Cd Cd Cs O C Co E ce a C C d O O d C O A O O . 'N M c) C) A 100 of 102 103 104 100 0 102 103 o' 100 0 1 102 0304 U.S. Patent Aug. 7, 2012 Sheet 8 of 41 US 8,236,308 B2 FIGURE 8 FIGURE 8(A) Kato HPB-ALL d O to 2 tle . 2G8LHXSEQID A Oo NO.12 Oo MY 100 to 102 103 10? O O 2 E. 2. 2G8LHXSEOD Oo 3. NO.1O Oo 100 to 102 103 to 100 to 102 103 to F 2-H F2H O O in 2 29 2G8HLXSEOD O O NO.12 () O 100 to 102 103 10? 00 F2H O O in 2 29 2C8HLXSEOD Oo g 2. NO.1 O Oo 100 to 102 103 10? 1 U.S. Patent Aug. 7, 2012 Sheet 9 of 41 US 8,236,308 B2 FIGURE 8(B) cynomolgus EpCAM transfected CHO HPB-ALL 2G8LHXSEOD NO.16 OO 10 O2 103 04 FL2-H 2G8LHXSEOD NO.14 2G8HLXSEO ED NO.16 2G8HLXSEOD NO.14 5-1 OLHXSEO D NO.10 OO 101 102 103 101 F 2-- U.S. Patent Aug. 7, 2012 Sheet 10 of 41 US 8,236,308 B2 FIGURE 9 60 A 2G8LHXSEOD NO.1O 50 k () () v 2G8HLXSEOD NO.12 40 o 5-1 OLHXdi-anti CD3 30 20 10 O 10-4 10-3 10-2 10-1 10 0 1 0 1 102 103 104 concentration in ng/ml of bispecific antibody U.S. Patent Aug. 7, 2012 Sheet 11 of 41 US 8,236,308 B2 FIGURE 10 A 2G8LHXSEOD NO.1 O v 2G8HLXSECR D NO.12 O 5-1 OLHXCi-anti CD3 1 O O 10-4 10-3 10-2 10-1 100 101 102 103 104 concentration in ng/ml of bispecific antibody U.S.
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