IP Library Granted Patent US 12,508,311
Granted Patent B2
US 12,508,311 · App. 17/766,450 · Granted Dec 30, 2025

Fusion protein, and preparation method and use thereof

Inventors: Musheng Zeng (Guangdong, CN); Jie Yang (Guangdong, CN); Guokai Feng (Guangdong, CN); Qiaoli Wang (Guangdong, CN)
Assignees: SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY; SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER (SYSUCC)
A61K39/3955A61K31/5377A61K38/46A61P35/00C07K16/40C12N9/6424C12Y304/21C07K2317/569C07K2319/33
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Patent No.
US 12,508,311
App. No.
17/766,450
Granted
Dec 30, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed are a fusion protein, and a preparation method and use thereof, which belong to the field of biomedicine technologies. The fusion protein comprises a polypeptide specifically bound to a KRas protein, a specific tumor-cell-penetrating peptide and a lysosome recognition peptide. The fusion protein with tumor targeting, penetrability and specific protein degradation is designed and constructed direct to an undruggable protein for the first time, thus providing a new idea for development of an anti-cancer targeted drug. Different from the prior art in which one molecule can only target one target protein, the fusion protein can simultaneously induce degradation of wild-type and mutant-type KRas proteins. Meanwhile, the fusion protein can improve the sensitivity of the KRas mutant-type tumor to the tumor-targeted drug by inducing degradation of KRas, thus expanding an application range of existing anti-cancer targeted drugs and having important significance in tumor clinic treatment.

Claims (38)

1 . A fusion protein, comprising an anti-KRas protein nanobody, a ganglioside binding peptide and a lysosome recognition peptide; and

wherein the amino acid sequence of the anti-KRas protein nanobody comprises:

(SEQ ID NO: 1)

DVQLQESGGGLVQAGGSLRLSCVASGRTFSTYPTGWFRQA

PGKEREFVARINLSGGITNYADSVKGRFTISRDNAKNTVY

LQMNSLKPEDTAVYYCGGGSTTWAGGIPTNFDYWGQGTQV

TVSSGR;

wherein the amino acid sequence of the ganglioside binding peptide comprises:

(SEQ ID NO: 2)

RAGLQFPVGRLLRRLLR;

and

wherein the amino acid sequence of the lysosome recognition peptide comprises:

(SEQ ID NO: 3)

KFERQKILDQRFFE.

2 . A nucleic acid molecule encoding the fusion protein according to claim 1 .

3 . A vector, comprising the nucleic acid molecule according to claim 2 .

4 . A host cell, comprising the vector according to claim 3 .

5 . A preparation method of the fusion protein according to claim 1 , comprising the step of: culturing the host cell according to claim 4 to obtain the fusion protein.

6 . A drug, comprising the fusion protein according to claim 1 and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient.

7 . A combination drug, comprising a fusion protein and an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-targeted drug, wherein the fusion protein comprises an anti-KRas protein nanobody, a ganglioside binding peptide and a lysosome recognition peptide; and

wherein the amino acid sequence of the anti-KRas protein nanobody comprises:

(SEQ ID NO: 1)

DVQLQESGGGLVQAGGSLRLSCVASGRTFSTYPTGWFRQA

PGKEREFVARINLSGGITNYADSVKGRFTISRDNAKNTVY

LQMNSLKPEDTAVYYCGGGSTTWAGGIPTNFDYWGQGTQV

TVSSGR;

wherein the amino acid sequence of the ganglioside binding peptide comprises:

RAGLQFPVGRLLRRLLR (SEQ ID NO: 2); and

wherein the amino acid sequence of the lysosome recognition peptide comprises:

KFERQKILDORFFE (SEQ ID NO: 3).

8 . The host cell according to claim 4 , wherein the host cell is selected from the group consisting of prokaryotic cell and eukaryotic cell.

9 . The drug according to claim 6 , wherein the drug is any one selected from the group consisting of a preparation for degrading a KRas protein, an anti-tumor drug, and a drug for improving a sensitivity of a KRas mutant-type colorectal cancer to a tumor-targeted drug.

10 . The drug according to claim 9 , the KRas protein is selected from wild-type KRas protein or mutant-type KRas protein.

11 . The drug according to claim 10 , the mutant-type KRas protein is the KRas protein mutated at one or more amino acid positions of G12, G13, S17, P34, A59, Q61 and A146.

12 . The drug according to claim 9 , wherein the KRas mutant-type tumor is a tumor related to a mutant-type KRas protein.

13 . The drug according to claim 9 , wherein the tumor-targeted drug is a human epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-targeted drug.

14 . The drug according to claim 13 , wherein the tumor-targeted drug is gefitinib.

15 . A method for treating or ameliorating colorectal cancer, comprising administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of the fusion protein according to claim 1 and gefitinib.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 4, 2022
From: ZENG, MUSHENG; YANG, JIE; FENG, GUOKAI; WANG, QIAOLI
To: SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY; SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER (SYSUCC)
Reel/Frame 059491/0919 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 202110398255.8 · Apr 14, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20240058441A1 · Feb 22, 2024
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