AU2016346595A1 - Antibody to be cross-linked to human and mouse Sema3A, and use thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides an antibody having the ability to be cross-linked to human Sema3A and mouse Sema3A. The antibody of the present invention can be used as a therapeutic antibody for inhibiting Sema3A in various carcinomas in which Sema3A expression is high, such as glioblastoma, pancreatic cancer and liver cancer. Since Sema3A is considered to be a therapeutic target of diabetic retinopathy, autoimmune arthritis, neuropathic pain and osteoporosis, the antibody of the present invention or an antigen binding fragment thereof can be used as an agent, in addition to being used as an anticancer drug, for treating associated diseases. The antibody of the present invention inhibits the growth of cancer cells derived from various carcinomas, by using high anti-Sema3A binding and Sema3A function inhibition caused thereby, and inhibits the migration of cancer cells by inhibiting the phosphorylation of ERK among the downstream signaling materials of Sema3A, thereby being very effective in cancer prevention and treatment.

Description

The present invention provides an antibody having the ability to be cross-linked to human Sema3A and mouse Sema3A. The antibody of the present invention can be used as a therapeutic antibody for inhibiting Sema3A in various carcinomas in which Sema3A expression is high, such as glioblastoma, pancreatic cancer and liver cancer. Since ’ Ά ·’ Sema3A is considered to be a therapeutic target of diabetic retinopathy, autoimmune arthritis, neuropathic pain and osteoporosis, the antibody of the present invention or an antigen binding fragment thereof can be used as an agent, in addition to being used as an anticancer drug, for treating associated diseases. The antibody of the present invention inhibits the growth of cancer cells derived from various carcinomas, by using high anti-Sema3A binding and Sema3A function inhibition caused thereby, and inhibits the migration of cancer cells by inhibiting the phosphorylation of ERK among the downstream signaling materials of Sema3A, thereby being very effective in cancer prevention and treatment.

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[specification] [title of invention]

ANTIBODY TO BE CROSS-LINKED TO HUMAN AND MOUSE SEMA3A AND

USES THEREOF [technical field]

This application claims the priority to Korean Patent Application No. 10-2015-0149272 filed on October 27, 2015 and Korean Patent Application No. 10-2016-0123233 filed on September 26, 2016 with the Korean Intellectual Property

Office, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.

The present invention relates to antibody to be crosslinked to human and mouse Sema3A, and uses thereof.

[background of art]

Sema3A is a secretory protein that is composed of an Iglike(immunoglobulin-like) C2-type domain, a PSI domain and a Serna domain, and it has been known to induce associated signaling by binding to NRP1 and PLXNA1.

Also, it has been reported that a high level of Sema3A specific carcinoma has a high growth rate of cancer cells, increases cancer cell migration, promotes cancer metastasis, and has poor prognosis.

Currently, no anti-cancer agent that inhibits Sema3A has been reported as an anti-cancer target, thus an anti-Sema3A antibody that inhibits the associated signaling by neutralizing the Sema3A may be a new anti-cancer treatment strategy.

Antibodies that inhibit Sema3A can be used as therapeutic agents for anti-cancer therapy such as glioblastoma, pancreatic cancer and liver cancer which are highly expressed in Sema3A.

Further, Sema3A is a factor which plays an important role in the migration of tumor-associated macrophage (AM) that is involved in the growth of cancer, and it is expected that the antibodies against Sema3A would exhibit anti-tumor effects in a variety of cancers.

Sema3A is considered as a therapeutic target for diabetic retinopathy, autoimmune arthritis, neuropathic pain or osteoporosis, and it can be used as therapeutic agents in many associated diseases in addition to anti-cancer therapeutic agents .

Throughout the entire specification, many papers and patent documents are referenced and their citations are presented in the brackets.

The disclosures of cited papers and patent documents are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety and thus the level of the technical field to which the invention belong and details of the present invention are explained more clearly.

[DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE invention] [Technical Problem]

The present inventors have endeavored to develop antibodies that can bind to Sema3A, i.e., a factor involved in the growth of cancer cells, and prevent and treat cancers.

As a result, the present inventors have discovered novel antibody that has the ability to be cross-linked to human Sema3A and mouse Sema3A, and exhibits the ability to inhibit cancer cell growth and migration, thereby having excellent effects of preventing and treating cancers, and completed the present invention.

It is an object of the invention to provide an antibody against human Sema3A or an antigen binding fragment thereof.

It is another object of the invention to provide a nucleic acid molecule encoding a heavy chain variable region of an antibody against the human Sema3A.

It is another object of the invention to provide a nucleic acid molecule encoding a light chain variable region of an antibody against the human Sema3A.

It is another object of the invention to provide a recombinant vector composing the nucleic acid molecule.

It is another object of the invention to provide a host cell transformed with the recombinant vector.

It is another object of the invention to provide a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating cancer.

Other objects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description together with the appended claims.

[Technical Solution]

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an antibody (clone name A08) to human Sema3A or its antigen binding fragment comprising:

(a) a heavy chain variable region comprising the following heavy chain complementarity determining region(CDR)

amino acid	sequences :
CDRH1 1	consisting	of	the	amino	acid	sequence	of	SEQ	ID	NO
1 t CDRH2	consisting	of	the	amino	acid	sequence	of	SEQ	ID	NO
2, and
CDRH3	consisting	of	the	amino	acid	sequence	of	SEQ	ID	NO

3; and (b) a light chain variable region comprising the following light chain CDR amino acid sequences:

CDRL1 consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:

4,

CDRL2 consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:

5, and

CDRL3 consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:

.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an antibody (clone name CIO) to human Sema3A or its antigen binding fragment comprising:

(a) a heavy chain variable region comprising the following heavy chain CDR amino acid sequences:

7	CDRH1	consisting	of	the	amino	acid	sequence	of	SEQ	ID	NO
‘ r	CDRH2	consisting	of	the	amino	acid	sequence	of	SEQ	ID	NO
8,	and
	CDRH3	consisting	of	the	amino	acid	sequence	of	SEQ	ID	NO

9; and (b) a light chain variable region comprising the following light chain CDR amino acid sequences:

CDRL1	consisting	of	the	amino	acid	sequence	of	SEQ	ID	NO
CDRL2	consisting	of	the	amino	acid	sequence	of	SEQ	ID	NO
and
CDRL3	consisting	of	the	amino	acid	sequence	of	SEQ	ID	NO

.

According to still another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an antibody (clone name Fll) to human Sema3A or its antigen binding fragment comprising:

(a) a heavy chain variable region comprising the following heavy chain CDR amino acid sequences:

CDRH1	consisting	of	the	amino	acid	sequence	of	SEQ	ID	NO
CDRH2	consisting	of	the	amino	acid	sequence	of	SEQ	ID	NO
and
CDRH3	consisting	of	the	amino	acid	sequence	of	SEQ	ID	NO

15; and (b) a light chain variable region comprising the following light chain CDR amino acid sequences:

CDRL1	consisting	of	the	amino	acid	sequence	of	SEQ	ID	NO
CDRL2	consisting	of	the	amino	acid	sequence	of	SEQ	ID	NO
and
CDRL3	consisting	of	the	amino	acid	sequence	of	SEQ	ID	NO

18.

The present inventors have endeavored to develop antibodies that can bind to Sema3A, i.e., a factor involved in the growth of cancer cells, and prevent and treat cancers.

As a result, the present inventors have discovered novel antibody that has the ability to be cross-linked to human Sema3A and mouse Sema3A, and exhibits the ability to inhibit cancer cell growth and migration, thereby having excellent effects of preventing and treating cancers.

The antibody of the present invention has a specific binding ability to human Sema3A. In Particular, the antibody of the present invention has cross-linking ability against human Serna3A and mouse Sema3A.

As used herein, the term antibody relating to an antibody to human Sema3A refers to a specific antibody to human Sema3A which specifically binds to human Sema3A. The antibody is meant to include complete antibody forms as well as antigen binding fragments of antibody molecules.

The complete antibody includes two full-length light chains and two full-length heavy chains, and each light chain is linked to the heavy chain by disulfide bond.

The heavy chain constant region includes a gamma (γ) , mu (u) , alpha (a) , delta (δ) and epsilon (c) type, which is classified into sub-classes such as gamma 1 (yl), gamma2 (γ2), gamma3 (γ3), gamma4 (γ4), alphal (al) and alpha2 (a2).

The light chain constant region includes a kappa (k) and ramda (λ) type (Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Wonsiewicz, M. J., Ed., Chapter 45, pp. 41-50, W. B. Saunders Co. Philadelphia, PA(1991); Nisonoff, A., Introduction to Molecular Immunology, 2nd Ed., Chapter 4,pp. 45-65, sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, MA (1984)).

As used herein, the term antigen binding fragments refers to fragments retaining an antigen binding function, and include Fab, F(ab'), F(ab')2 Fv and the like.

Among antibody fragments, Fab has one antigen binding site which is composed of one variable domain from each heavy and light chain of the antibody, one constant region of light chain and the first constant region (C_Hi) of heavy chain.

Fab' is different to Fab in the senses that there is a hinge region containing one or more cysteine residues at Cterminal of C_Hi domain of heavy chain.

F(ab')2 antibody is produced by forming a disulfide bond between cysteine residues of hinge region of Fab'.

Fv is a minimal antibody fragment including only variable region from each heavy and light chain. And recombinant technique to prepare a Fv fragment is disclosed in PCT International Publications WO 88/10649, WO 88/106630, WO 88/07085, WO 88/07086 and WO 88/09344.

Two-chain Fv is linked by non-covalent bond between variable regions of each heavy and light chain, and singlechain Fv is generally linked by covalent bond via a peptide linker between variable regions of each heavy and light chain, or is directly linked to each other at C-terminal, forming a

dimer-like structure	such as two-chain Fv.	obtained using	a
Such	antibody	fragments	may	be
proteolytic	enzymes	(e.g.,	Fabs	can	be obtained	by

restriction-cleaved of whole antibodies to papain, The F (ab ' ) fragment can be obtained by restriction-cleaved of the whole antibody to pepsin), and may be preferably prepared by genetic recombination techniques.

In one embodiment, the antibody of the present invention is a scFv form or a complete antibody form.

In addition, the heavy chain constant region may be selected from the isotypes consisting of gamma (γ) , mu (u), alpha (a), delta (δ) and epsilon (c).

As used herein, the term heavy chain refers to both a full-length heavy chain and its fragment, which includes variable domain (V_H) containing the amino acid sequence with a variable region sequence for imparting a specificity to antigen and three constant domains (C_Hi, C_H2 and Cb) .

The term light chain refers to both a full-length light chain and its fragment, which includes variable domain (V_L) containing the amino acid sequence with a variable region sequence for specifically binding to antigen and constant domain (C_L) .

As used herein, the term CDR (complementarity determining region) refers to an amino acid sequence of hypervariable region of immunoglobulin heavy and light chain (Rabat et al., Sequences of Proteins of Immunological Interest, 4th Ed., U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health (1987)). Three CDRs are involved in heavy chain (CDRH1, CDRH2 and CDRH3) and light chain (CDRL1, CDRL2 and CDRL3), respectively. CDR provides a main contacting residue to combine antibody with antigen or epitope.

Human Sema3A antibody or its antigen binding fragment may include variants of amino acid sequences set forth in the appended Sequence Listing, which are capable of specifically recognizing human Sema3A.

For example, amino acid sequence of antibody may be altered to improve binding ability and/or other biological characteristics of antibody. These alterations include, for example, deletion, insertion and/or substitution of amino acid residues of antibody.

Such amino acid variations may be provided on the basis of a relative similarity of amino acid side chains, e.g., hydrophobicity, hydrophilicity, charge, size and the like. By the analysis for size, shape and type of the amino acid side chains, it could be seen that all of arginine, lysine and histidine residues are those having positive charge; alanine, glycine and serine have a similar size; phenylalanine, tryptophan and tyrosine have a similar shape.

Accordingly, based on these considerable factors, arginine, lysine and histidine; alanine, glycine and serine; and phenylalanine, tryptophan and tyrosine may be considered to be biologically functional equivalents.

When introducing variation, a hydropathic index of amino acids may be considered. Based on the hydrophobicity and the charge, the hydropathic index is given to each amino acid:

Isoleucine (+4.5); Valine (+4.2); Leucine (+3.8); Phenylalanine (+2.8); Cysteine/Cystaine (+2.5); Methionine (+1.9); Alanine (+1.8); Glycine (-0.4); Threonine (-0.7); Serine (-0.8); Tryptophan (-0.9); Tyrosine (-1.3); Proline (-1.6); Histidine (-3.2); Glutamate (-3.5); Glutamine (-3.5); Aspartate (-3.5); Asparagine (-3.5); Lysine (-3.9); and Arginine (-4.5).

When imparting an interactive biological function of proteins, the hydropathic index of the amino acid is very important. It is well known to one of skill in the art that variations can possess a similar biological activity only where proteins are replaced with amino acids having similar hydropathic index.

Where variations are intended to introduce based on the hydropathic index, the substitution is preferably performed between amino acid residues having no more than +2 difference in hydropathic index values, more preferably within +1, still more preferably within +0.5.

On the other hand, it is well-known that substitutions between amino acids having similar hydrophilicity values may result in the generation of proteins having biologically equivalent activities .

As disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 4,554,101, each amino acid residue is assigned the following hydrophilicity values:

Arginine (+3.0); Lysine (+3.0); Aspartate (+3.0 + 1); Glutamate (+3.0+1); Serine (+0.3); Asparagine (+0.2); Glutamine (+0.2); Glycine (0); Threonine (-0.4); Proline (-0.5 + 1); Alanine (-0.5); Histidine (-0.5); Cysteine (-1.0); Methionine (-1.3); Valine (-1.5); Leucine (-1.8); Isoleucine (-1.8); Tyrosine (-2.3); Phenylalanine (-2.5); and Tryptophan (-3.4).

Where variations are intended to introduce based on the hydrophilicity values, the substitution is preferably performed between amino acid residues having no more than ±2 difference in hydropathic index values, more preferably within ±1, still more preferably within ±0.5.

The amino acid exchanges in proteins that do not substantially change the activity of the molecule are well known to one skilled in the art (H. Neurath, R. L. Hill, The Proteins, Academic Press, New York, 1979).

The most commonly occurring exchanges include exchanges between amino acid residues:

Ala/Ser, Val/Ile, Asp/Glu, Thr/Ser, Ala/Gly, Ala/Thr, Ser/Asn, Ala/Val, Ser/Gly, Thy/Phe, Ala/Pro, Lys/Arg, Asp/Asn, Leu/Ile, Leu/Val, Ala/Glu and Asp/Gly.

Considering the afore-mentioned variations having biologically equivalent activities, it would be understood that either antibody of the present invention or the nucleic acid encoding the same includes sequences that are substantially identical to the sequences set forth in the appended Sequence Listing.

The substantially identical sequences refers to those showing preferably at least 61%, more preferably at least 70%, still more preferably at least 80%, most preferably at least 90% nucleotide similarity to the sequences of the appended Sequence Listing, as measured using one of the sequence comparison algorithms known to those ordinarily skilled in the art, by which the nucleotide sequence of this invention is maximally aligned corresponding on random other nucleotide sequences .

Methods of alignment	of sequences	for	comparison are
well-known in the art. Various	methods	and	algorithms of
alignment are described in: Smith and Waterman,	Adv.	Appl.	Math	2:482(1981);

Needleman and Wunsch, J. Mol. Bio. 48:443(1970); Pearson and Lipman, Methods in Mol. Biol. 24: 307-31(1988); Higgins and Sharp, Gene 73:237-44(1988); Higgins and Sharp, CABIOS 5:1513(1989); Corpet et al., Nuc. Acids Res. 16:10881-90(1988); Huang et al., Comp. Appl. BioSci. 8:155-65(1992) and Pearson et al., Meth. Mol. Biol. 24:307-31(1994).

The NCBI Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) (Altschul et al., J. Mol. Biol. 215: 403-10 (1990)) is available from several sources, including the National Center for Biological Information (NBCI, Bethesda, Md.) and on the Internet, for use in connection with the sequence analysis programs blastp, blasm, blastx, tblastn and tblastx. It can be accessed at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.qov/BLAST/. A description of how to determine sequence identity using this program is available at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BI-AST/blast help.html. In addition, sequencing of framework region (FR) and CDRs in antibody variable regions may be indicated based on the sequences of IMGT (www.imgt.org/) generally accessible in the art.

According	to an	embodiment of	the invention,	the	heavy
chain variable	region	of A08 antibody	comprises the	amino	acid
sequence of SEQ	ID NO:	:19.
According	to an	embodiment of	the invention,	the	light
chain variable	region	of A08 antibody	comprises the	amino	acid
sequence of SEQ	ID NO:	:20.
According	to an	embodiment of	the invention,	the	heavy
chain variable	region	of CIO antibody	comprises the	amino	acid
sequence of SEQ	ID NO:	:21.
According	to an	embodiment of	the invention,	the	light
chain variable	region	of CIO antibody	comprises the	amino	acid
sequence of SEQ	ID NO:	:22 .
According	to an	embodiment of	the invention,	the	heavy
chain variable	region	of Fll antibody	comprises the	amino	acid
sequence of SEQ	ID NO:	:23.
According	to an	embodiment of	the invention,	the	light
chain variable	region	of Fll antibody	comprises the	amino	acid
sequence of SEQ	ID NO:	:24 .

The antibody of the present invention includes, but not limited to, monoclonal antibody, polyclonal antibody, human antibody, humanized antibody, chimeric antibody, single-chain Fvs(scFV), single-chain antibody, Fab fragment, F(ab') fragment, disulfide-linked Fvs (sdFV) and anti-idiotype (antiid) antibody, and epitope-binding fragment thereof.

The antibody of the present invention is basically composed of heavy chain variable region (V_H)-linker—light chain variable region (V_L) .

In the scFv antibody of the present invention, the linker refers to an amino acid sequence having a predetermined length which artificially links the heavy chain and light chain variable regions .

The scFv antibody of the present invention may be represented by V_H (SEQ ID NO: 19)-linker-V_L (SEQ ID NO: 20); V_H (SEQ ID NO: 21)-linker-V_L (SEQ ID NO: 22); and V_H (SEQ ID NO: 23)—linker—V_L (SEQ ID NO: 24) .

The antibody or its antigen binding fragment of the present invention is specifically cross-linked to human Sema3A and mouse Sema3A.

Since the antibody or its antigen binding fragment of the present invention is capable of specifically binding to human Sema3A as well as mouse Sema3A, more accurate preclinical results can be confirmed in the efficacy evaluation using mouse tumor models.

In another aspect of this invention, there is provided a nucleic acid molecule encoding a heavy chain variable region of an antibody to be cross-linked to human Sema3A and mouse Sema3A comprising the amino acid seguence of SEQ ID NO :19, SEQ ID NO :21 or SEQ ID NO :23.

In another aspect of this invention, there is provided a nucleic acid molecule encoding a light chain variable region of an antibody to be cross-linked to human Sema3A and mouse Sema3A comprising the amino acid seguence of SEQ ID NO :20, SEQ ID NO :22 or SEQ ID NO :24.

As used herein, the term nucleic acid molecule collectively refers to RNA (gDNA and cDNA) and DNA molecules, and the basic nucleotides of nucleic acid molecules also include analogues with modified sugar or base as well as natural nucleotides (Scheit, Nucleotide Analogs, John Wiley, New York (1980); Uhlman and Peyman, Chemical Reviews, 90:543584 (1990)). The seguence of the present nucleic acid molecule encoding the variable region of heavy and light chain could be modified. Such modification includes addition, deletion or non-conservative or conservative substitution of nucleotide.

The nucleic acid molecule of this invention encoding a human Sema3A antibody also includes a nucleotide seguence sharing substantial homology with the above nucleotide seguence.

The substantial homology is determined by aligning the nucleotide seguence of the present invention with other random sequences as much as possible and analyzing the aligned sequence using an algorithm commonly used in the art, wherein the nucleotide sequence sharing homology is at least 80%, more preferably 90% and most preferable 95%.

In still further aspect of this invention, there is provided a recombinant vector comprising the above-described nucleic acid molecules.

As used herein, the term vector refers to a tool for expressing target gene in a host cell, including a plasmid vector; a cosmid vector; and a virus vector such as a bacteriophage vector, an adenovirus vector, a retrovirus vector and an adeno-associated virus vector.

According to a preferable embodiment, the nucleic acid molecules encoding the variable regions of light and heavy chains in the vector of the present invention are operatively linked to a promoter.

As used herein, the term operatively linked refers to functional linkage between a nucleic acid expression control sequence (for example, a promoter, signal sequence or array of transcription factor binding sites) and a second nucleic acid sequence, wherein the expression control sequence affects transcription and/or translation of the nucleic acid corresponding to the second sequence.

The vector system of the present invention may be performed by various methods known to those skilled in the art and its practical method is described in Sambrook et al., Molecular Cloning, A Laboratory Manual, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (2001), which is incorporated herein by reference .

Typically, the vector of the present invention may be constructed as cloning or expression vector.

In addition, the vector of the present invention may be constructed using a prokaryotic or eukaryotic cell as a host cell.

For instance, in each a vector of the present invention and an eukaryotic cell used as the expression vector and the host cell, the promoter derived from genome of mammalian cell (example: methallothionein promoter, β-actin promoter, human hemoglobin promoter and human muscle creatine promoter) or mammalian virus (example: adenovirus late promoter, vaccinia virus 7.5K promoter, SV40 promoter, cytomegalovirus promoter, tk promoter of HSV, mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) promoter, LTR promoter of HIV, promoter of moloney virus, Epstein barr virus (EBV) and Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) ) might be used, and polyadenylated sequence might be commonly used as the transcription termination sequence.

The vector of the present invention could be fused with other sequences to facilitate the purification of an antibody expressed from it.

For example, a fused sequence includes glutathione-S18 transferase (Pharmacia, USA), maltose-binding protein (NEB, USA) , FLAG (IBI, USA) and 6 X His (hexahistidine; Quiagen, USA) and so on.

Since the protein expressed in the vector of the present invention is antibody, expressed antibody could be also purified throughout protein A column in an easy manner without additive seguences for purification.

On the other hand, the expression vector of the present invention includes an antibiotics-resistance gene known to those ordinarily skilled in the art as a selection marker, for example, resistant genes against ampicillin, gentamycin, carbenicillin, chloramphenicol, streptomycin, kanamycin, geneticin, neomycin and tetracycline.

In still another aspect of this invention, there is provided a host cell transformed with the above-described recombinant vector.

The host cells in which the present vector is stably and successively cloned and expressed, also utilize any one known to those skilled in the art, for example, the suitable eukaryotic host cell of the above vector includes COS7(monkey kidney cell), NSO cell, SP2/0, CHO (Chinese hamster ovary) cell, W138, BHK (baby hamster kidney) cell, MDCK, myeloma cell line, HuT 78 cell and 293 cell, but not limited thereto.

In another aspect of this invention, there is provided a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating cancer comprising:

(a) a pharmaceutically effective amount of an antibody or its binding fragment against a human Sema3A; and (b) a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.

A pharmaceutical composition of the present invention uses, as an active ingredient, the antibody to human Sema3A or its antigen binding fragment of the present invention. Therefore, the overlapping descriptions therebetween are omitted to avoid excessive complication of the specification due to repetitive descriptions thereof.

As can be verified by the following examples, the antibody to human Sema3A of the present invention inhibits the growth of cancer cells derived from various cancers by a considerable binding ability to anti-Sema3A and the suppression of Sema3A function therefrom, inhibits the ERK phosphorylation of downstream signaling molecules of Sema3A and thus suppress the migration of cancer cells, thereby being very efficient in the prevention and treatment of cancers.

The cancers that can be prevented or treated by the composition of the invention may include various cancers known in the art, and examples thereof may include breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, blood cancer, bone cancer, pancreatic cancer, skin cancer, brain cancer, cervical cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, laryngeal cancer, colon cancer, ovarian cancer, rectal cancer, colorectal cancer, vaginal cancer, small intestine cancer, endocrine cancer, thyroid cancer, parathyroid cancer, ureter cancer, urinary tract cancer, prostate cancer, bronchial cancer, bladder cancer, kidney cancer and marrow cancer.

Specifically, the cancers that can be prevented or treated by the composition of the present invention are Sema3A expressing cancers.

In the pharmaceutical compositions of the present invention, the pharmaceutically acceptable carrier may be conventional one for formulation, including lactose, dextrose, sucrose, sorbitol, mannitol, starch, Acacia gum, potassium phosphate, alginate, gelatin, potassium silicate, microcrystalline cellulose, polyvinylpyrrolidone, cellulose, water, syrups, methyl cellulose, methylhydroxy benzoate, propylhydroxy benzoate, talc, magnesium stearate and mineral oils, but not limited thereto.

The pharmaceutical composition according to the present invention may further include a lubricant, a humectant, a sweetener, a flavoring agent, an emulsifier, a suspending agent and a preservative.

Details of suitable pharmaceutically acceptable carriers and formulations can be found in Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences (19th ed., 1995), which is incorporated herein by reference .

The pharmaceutical composition according to the present invention may be administered parenterally. Such parenteral administration includes, for example, intravenous injection, subcutaneous injection, intramuscular injection, intraperitoneal injection or the like.

A suitable dose of the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention may vary depending on various factors such as methods of formulating, methods of administrating, the patient's ages, weights, sex, severities of diseases, diet, administration times, administration routes, excretion rates and reaction sensitivities, and a skilled physician may determine and prescribe pharmaceutically effective dose for the required treatment or prophylaxis easily. In a preferred embodiment, proper daily dose may be 0.0001-100 mg/kg (weight).

As used herein, the term pharmaceutically effective amount refers to an amount suitable for preventing or treating cancers.

According to the conventional techniques known to those skilled in the art, the pharmaceutical composition may be formulated with pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and/or vehicle as described above, finally providing several forms including a unit dose form and a multiple dose form.

The formulation may be a solution, a suspension or an emulsion in oily or aqueous media or may be extracts, powders, granules, tablets or capsules, and may further comprise a dispersion agent or a stabilizer.

[ADVANTAGEOUS EFFECTS]

The features and advantages of one or more embodiments of the present invention are summarized as follows:

(a) The present invention provides an antibody having the ability to be cross-linked to human Sema3A and mouse Sema3A.

(b) The antibody of the present invention can be used as therapeutic antibody drugs for inhibiting Sema3A in various cancers such as glioblastoma, pancreatic cancer and liver cancer that exhibit high Sema3A expression levels.

(c) Sema3A is considered to be a therapeutic target of diabetic retinopathy, autoimmune arthritis, neuropathic pain and osteoporosis, the antibody of the present invention or an antigen binding fragment thereof can be used as an agent for treating associated diseases in addition to being used as an anti-cancer drug.

(d) The antibody of the present invention inhibits the growth of cancer cells derived from various cancers by using high Sema3A binding and Sema3A function inhibition caused thereby, and inhibits the migration of cancer cells by inhibiting the phosphorylation of ERK among the downstream signaling materials of Sema3A, thereby being very effective in cancer prevention and treatment.

[brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic scheme of a phage display selection process for identifying anti-Sema3A scFv antibody fragments.

FIG. 2 is a graph showing the phage display panning results .

FIG. 3 shows results analyzing binding abilities of 52 species of scFv antibody fragments cross-linked to human

Sema3A.

FIG. 4 shows results re-verifying binding abilities of 52 species of Sema3A scFv.

FIG. 5 shows results confirming the sequences of 31 species of Sema3A scFv.

FIG. 6 is a diagram of phagemid vector for the production of scFv antibody fragments.

FIG. 7 shows Coomassie staining results of three species of purified Sema3A scFv antibody fragments.

FIG. 8 is a graph showing Indirect ELISA results according to concentrations with respect to three species of anti-Sema3A scFv antibody fragment.

FIG. 9 shows results confirming Sema3A-secreting cells using Sandwich ELISA.

FIG. 10 shows results confirming the abilities to inhibit cell growth using anti-Sema3A.

FIG. 11 shows results confirming the abilities to inhibit cell migration using anti-Sema3A scFv and U87-MG cells.

FIG. 12 shows results confirming the abilities to inhibit cell migration using anti-Sema3A scFv and 131 cells.

FIG. 13 shows results confirming the abilities to inhibit cell migration using anti-Sema3A scFv and 83 cells.

FIG. 14 shows results confirming the purity of antiSema3A IgG by HPLC analysis.

FIG. 15 shows results confirming the size of anti-Sema3A IgG by Coomassie staining.

FIG. 16 shows results confirming binding abilities of antibodies to human and mouse Sema3A.

FIG. 17 shows the results of SPR analysis on binding abilities of three species of anti-Sema3A IgG to human and mouse Sema3A.

FIG. 18 shows the results confirming the abilities to inhibit cell migration using anti-Sema3A IgG and U87-MG cells.

FIG. 19 shows the results confirming the abilties to inhibit cell migration using anti-Sema3A IgG and 131 cells.

FIG. 20 shows the results confirming the abilities to inhibit cell migration using anti-Sema3A IgG and 83 cells.

FIG.	21	shows	the	results	confirming the	efficacy	of
anti-Sema3A antibody	that	inhibits	ERK phosphorylation.
FIG.	22	shows	the	results	confirming the	abilities	to

inhibit the growth of glioblastoma cells in anti-Sema3A IgG.

FIG. 23 shows the measurement results on the degree of inhibition of cell proliferation according to concentrations of anti-Sema3A IgG.

FIG. 24 shows the results confirming reductions in tumor size by anti-Sema3A IgG in animal models.

FIG. 25 shows the measurement results on tumor weight changes by anti-Sema3A IgG in animal models.

FIG. 26 shows the measurement results on body weight changes according to the administration of anti-Sema3A IgG in animal models.

FIG. 27 shows the results confirming apoptotic effects by subjecting immunofluorescence staining after administration of anti-Sema3A IgG in animal models.

FIG. 28 shows the results confirming TAM distribution after administration of anti-Sema3A IgG in animal models.

[DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE embodiments]

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to examples. These examples are only for illustrating the present invention more specifically, and it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the scope of the present invention is not limited by these examples.

EXAMPLE

Example 1: Panning using recombinant human Sema3A protein

The scFv antibody fragments cross-linked to human Sema3A were identified through phage display screening by using the existing constructed synthetic scFv phage library (Yang et al., Mol. Cells. 27:225-235, 2009). The phage display screening procedure was shown in FIG. 1.

Specifically, for the collection of phagemid vectors in a phage type, which were introduced into E. coli host ER2537, four sub-library samples were respectively cultured in 400 ml of media (SB/ampicillin/2% glucose) for 2 hours. When OD600 is 0.5-0.7, the host cells were centrifuged at 5,000 g for 20 minutes to remove the supernatant, and then suspended in 400 ml of secondary media (SB/ampicillin). Then, 10¹² pfu (plaque forming unit) of helper phage (VCSM13) was added thereto and cultured for 1 hour.

After that, the antibiotic Kanamycin (antibiotic gene introduced into helper phage) was added at a concentration of 70 ug/ml, followed by culturing overnight at 30°C, so that the phage library was secreted outside the host cell. Then, the centrifuged culture was treated with the polyethylene glycol (PEG) solution to precipitate only phage form, thereby collecting the phage library.

Using the phage library thus obtained, phage display screening was performed through repeated rounds of panning. The counted sub-libraries were collected to 2.5><10¹² pfu, and then treated with the immunotube coated with rhSema3A-Fc protein diluted to 10 ug/ml in TBS for 1 hour. The immunotube and the phage particles before the treatment were treated with a blocking solution containing 3% skim milk for 1 hour, thereby preventing non-specific binding thereof. The immunotube was washed with TBST(0.1% Tween 20) solution and 100 mM TEA was added thereto and kept to stand for 10 minutes, thereby collecting phages bound to Sema3A. For the confirmation of the number of collected phages (output), after infecting the host cells, phage counting was performed in the medium. The remaining collected solution was centrifuged at 3,000 rpm for 15 minutes and then the settled ER2537 was mixed in 500 ul of a culture medium (SB). The mixture was plated on the 15 cm-media and then cultured, and then 5 ml of SB medium (50% glycerol) was added, followed by collection and storage (-80°C) of colonies.

For the repeated rounds of panning, 50 ul of aliquot was taken from the stored phage solution from the previous round of panning, and subjected to phage particle amplification.

The phage particles which were cultured in the host cell ER2537, added with helper phages, and collected, were separated by PEG precipitation, and the next round of panning using the phage particles were progressed in the same manner.

As the number of panning was increased, it was confirmed that percentages of the phage particles after panning were increased as compared to those before panning. This means that the phage particles specific to Sema3A through the panning were amplified. The results were shown in FIG. 2.

Example 2: ELISA and Sequence Analysis for selection of

Anti-Sema3A scFv Candidates

The phage particles collected from the fourth round of panning were confirmed as colonies in the medium through infection of host cell ER2537. These colonies were taken and inoculated in a 96 well plate containing 200 ul of

SB/ampicillin media and then cultured at 37°C for 2-3 hours.

After that, for the induction of scFv-pIII protein expression, the final concentration of 1 mM of IPTG (isopropyl β-D-l-thiogalactopyranoside) was added to each well, followed by culturing overnight at 30°C. The cultured plate was centrifuged at 3,000 rpm for 15 minutes to remove the supernatant.

Then, for the collection of phage particles in the periplasm of the cultured cells, the culture plate was added with 40 ul of TES solution (20% w/v sucrose, 50 mM Tris, 1 mM EDTA, pH 8.0) in each well and then kept to stand at 4°C for 30 minutes, so that the cells were lysed.

After that, the cells were treated with 60 ul of 0.2* TES solution, and then kept to stand for at 4°C for 30 minutes.

After lysing the cells under osmotic pressure, the plate was centrifuged at 3,000 rpm for 15 minutes, thereby obtaining scFv-pIII protein of the supernatant.

ul of the supernatant thus obtained was added to each well of a 96 well plate coated with Sema3A protein, which was previously prepared, followed by binding at room temperature for 1 hour, and subsequently, washing procedures were performed for six times using TBST and distilled water.

Then, anti-HA antibody bound to HRP capable of binding to HA-tag in scFv pIH was added, followed by binding at room temperature for 1 hour, and subsequently, washing procedures were performed for six times using TBST (0.1% Tween20) and distilled water.

After induction of a color reaction using TMB solution, the color reaction was stopped with addition of H₂SO₄ solution and the values thereof were measured at O.D. 450 nm. A total of 86 clones were analyzed, and 52 clones (binding affinity >2-fold) out of them showed a higher binding affinity to Sema3A (FIG. 3).

As a control group, the BSA solution was used, and among 52 clones, 31 clones having high binding affinities reverified through ELISA were selected (FIG. 4).

After that, phagemid was collected from the 31 clones, and DNA sequence analysis thereof was performed. A total of 5 clones having different sequences were selected.

It was verified that three (3) A08 clones, twenty-one (21) Fll clones and two (2) CIO clones had identical DNA sequences, and additionally, A10 and E10 clones had different

DNA sequences (FIG. 5).

In the order of increasing the number of clones with identical sequences, Fll, A08 and CIO were selected as the final Seman3A scFv candidates.

Example 3: Production of Anti-Sema3A scFv Protein and Verification on Binding Affinity to Sema3A

The basic structure of phagemid can be confirmed in FIG. 6, and in the case of the host cell ER2537 used in the above procedures, since it suppresses the transcription stop codon (amber codon (UAG)) located in front of the phage pIH, the expression of scFv alone is not possible therein.

Accordingly, by using the expression strain (TOP10F'), which is a non-suppressor strain, the phagemid was transduced into the expression strain. After that, the expression strains into which respective phagemids were introduced without mutation were confirmed through DNA sequencing. A colony was taken from the expression strains, and inoculated in 3 ml of LB/ampicillin media, followed by culturing overnight at 37°C.

After the culturing overnight, 3 ml of the culture solution was transferred to 400 ml of media (SB/ampicillin), and then further cultured until O.D600 reached 0.5-0.7. 1 mM

IPTG as final concentration was added, followed by culturing overnight at 30°C. After the culture solution was centrifuged, the expression hosts were lysed in 40 ml of TES solution and then added with 60 ml of 0.2X TES, thereby collecting the phage particles in the periplasm. The collected supernatant was filtered through an 0.45 urn filter.

For His-tag purification, the scFv proteins present in the filtered solution were added with 1 ml of Ni-NTA beads (Qiagen) and allowed to bind thereto at room temperature for 1 hour, and then Ni-NTA beads were packed in the gravity column (Bio-rad) , followed by collecting scFv proteins using 200 mM imidazole solution.

Through SDS-PAGE and Coomassie blue staining after expression and purification of each clone, each scFv was verified to have a size of about 28 kDa, and the results were shown in FIG. 7.

The DNA sequences of each clone in the form of purified scFv are set forth in Table 1 and Table 2 below.

[Table l]

Sequence information on heavy chain FR and CDR regions of three anti-Sema3A scFv antibody fragments

Heavy chain	FR1	CDR1	FR2	CDR2	FR3	CDR3	FR4
A0 8	EVQLLESGGGL VQPGGSLRLSC AAS	GFTFS DYA	MSWVRQAPG KGLEWVSG	IYYDDS SQ	YYADSVKGRFTISRDNS KNTLYLQMNSLRAEDTA VYYC	AKNLG RFDY	WGQGTL VTVSS
CIO	EVQLLESGGGL VQPGGSLRLSC AAS	GFTFS DYA	MSWVRQAPG KGLEWVSG	IYYDDS SQ	YYADSVEGRFTISRDNS KNTLYLQMNSLRAEDTA VYYC	ARYLG LFDY	WGQGTL VTVSS
Fll	EVQLLESGGGL	GFTFS	MSWVRQAPG	IYYDSG	YYADSVKGRFTISRDNS	AKLNG	WGQGTL
VQTGGSLRLSC	DYA	KGLEWVSW	SK	KNTLYLQMNSLRAEDTA	DFDY	VTVSS

AAS

VYYC

[Table 2]

Sequence information on light chain FR and CDR regions of three anti-Sema3A scFv antibody fragments

Light chain	FR1	CDR1	FR2	CDR2	FR3	CDR3	FR4
A0 8	QSVLTQPPSASGTPG QRVTISCTGS	SSNIGS NA	VTWYQQLPGT APKLLIY	DDN	HRPSGVPDRFSGSKSGTS ASLAISGLRSEDEADYYC	GAWDDSL SAYV	FGGGTK LTVL
CIO	QSVLTQPPSASGTPG QRVTISCSGS	SSNIGN NS	VNWYQQLPGT APKLLIY	SDS	QRPSGVPDRFSGSKSGTS ASLAISGLRSEDEADYYC	GSWDYSL SAYV	FGGGTK LTVL
Fll	QSVLTQPPSASGTPG QRVTISCSGS	SSNIGN ND	VSWYQQLPGT APKLLIY	ADS	HRPSGVPDRFSGSKSGTS ASLAISGLRSEDEADYYC	GAWDSSL SGYV	FGGGTK LTVL

To determine the binding affinity to human Sema3A according to concentrations of the respective antibody protein fragments, in each 96 well coated with 200 ng of NRP1 and BSA, each scFv was treated with concentrations of 2,000 ng/ml,

1,000 ng/ml, 500 ng/ml, 250 ng/ml, 125 ng/ml, 62.5 ng/ml, 31.25 ng/ml and 15.62 ng/ml to analyze changes in the OD values .

In the case of A08, CIO and Fll scFv, it can be confirmed by changes in the OD values that the size of the binding affinities of scFv to Sema3A increases as the concentration increases, compared to BSA, and this can be confirmed in FIG.

Example 4: Verification on Abilities of Anti-Sema3A scFv to inhibit cell growth and cell migration

The binding affinities to Sema3A proteins were verified by ELISA, and then the cell proliferation assay and the cell migration assay were used in order to verify the anti-cancer abilities to Sema3A, which is substantially secreted by cells.

First, the secretion of Sema3A was verified by Sandwich ELISA. As a result, it was verified that, among the patientderived cells, 559 secreted less Sema3A, whereas 131 and 83 hyper-secreted Sema3A. The media and NPC were used as negative controls and U87-MG cells were used as a positive control (FIG. 9).

In order to perform the cell proliferation assay, 5 χ 10³ cells of 559 and 131 were treated with 50 ug/ml of anti-Sema3A scFv. The cell growth rate was measured using the EZ-Cytox cell viability assay kit (Daeil Lab. Service) on day 4 after the treatment.

559 cells secreting less Sema3A showed no change in the cell growth rate after anti-Sema3A scFv treatment, whereas 131 cells hypersecreting Sema3A showed 70% of the cell growth rate after anti-Sema3A scFv treatment as compared to the control group (FIG. 10).

In order to verify the abilities to inhibit cell migration using anti-Sema3A scFv, the cell migration assay was performed using U87-MG, 131 and 83 cells which are Sema3A-hypersecreting cells .

First, PLO(Poly-L-Ornithine) was added to a transwell(Corning) and coated at room temperature for 30 minutes, followed by air-drying. For U87-MG cells, 5*10⁴ U87-MG cells and 50 ug/ml of three species of Sema3A scFv were added to 100 ul of DMEM media without growth factor, and the solution was added to a transwell. 600 ul of DMEM culture solution containing 10% FBS (fatal bovine serum) was added to the bottom well and cultured overnight at 37°C. For 131 and 83 cells which are the patient-derived cells, l*10⁵ cells and three species of Sema3A scFv were respectively added to 100 ul NBA culture solution not containing the growth factor (EGF and bFGF), and NBA culture solution containing the growth factor was added to the bottom well and cultured overnight at 37°C.

Then, 600 ul of methanol, hematoxylin and eosin were prepared for one per transwell in a 12-well, and then the transwell was kept in methanol for one minute and then allowed to stand in hematoxylin for 5 minutes to stain the nuclei.

Next, after washing with water and wiping moisture off, the resultant was kept in eosin for 30 seconds to stain cytoplasm. It was again washed with water and wiped cleanly inside the transwell with a cotton swab. It can be observed from FIG. 11 that the nucleus was stained by hematoxylin and the cytoplasm was stained by eosin.

For U87-MG cells, when cell migration of a control not treated with Sema3A scFv antibodies was regarded as 100%, cell migration of a cell with AO8 antibody fragment was reduced to 78%, with CIO antibody fragment to 70%, with Fll antibody fragment to 74% (FIG. 11).

For patient-derived cells, 131 and 83, cell migration of a cell treated with A08 antibody fragment was reduced to 11% and 21%, with CIO antibody fragment to 19% and 44%, and Fll antibody fragment to 7% and 28%, respectively (FIGS. 12 and 13).

Three species of Sema3A antibody fragments exhibited a higher effect of inhibiting the cell migration in 131, 83 cells (patient-derived cells) than in cell line U87-MG, which showed the potential as an anti-cancer agent to inhibit cell migration of cancer cells.

Example 5: Production of IgG from Anti-Sema3A Antibody Fragment

For the conversion of anti-Sema3A antibody fragment into forms of IgG, the genes of the heavy chain seguences and light chain sequences of scFv Sema3A were transfected using Expi 293F expression system (life technologies).

In order to obtain Sema3A IgG in the culture solution, the purification was performed using AKTA protein purification system and Amicon centrifugal filter. The production amount was 118 mg/L for A08, 138 mg/L for CIO and 330 mg/L for Fll.

In order to confirm the purity of the purified anti-Sema3A antibody, the high performance liquid chromatography was introduced. Since the size of IgG is 150 kD, it corresponds to the material eluted from the marker peak at 16.388 minutes.

It was confirmed that three species of Sema3A antibodies (A08, CIO and Fll) were detected from this peak and the purity was 98%, 98.5% and 99%, respectively.

The forms of anti-IgG Sema3A according to the sizes were confirmed through SDS PAGE and Coomassie staining. Under nonreducing conditions, a band was detected at 150 kD which is the size of IgG, and under reducing conditions, the disulfide bond was broken and thus, the sizes of the heavy chain seguence and the light chain sequence were shown to be 50 kD and 25 kD, respectively (FIG. 15).

In order to confirm the binding affinity of three Sema3A antibodies to Sema3A, ELISA was performed under two concentration conditions (500 nM, 50 nM) . BSA was used as a negative control, and mouse Sema3A and human Sema3A proteins were used as an experimental group.

It was confirmed that three species of Sema3A antibodies have biding affinities to human Sema3A and mouse Sema3A, which can be seen in FIG. 16. The reason why the present antibody has a binding affinity to mouse Sema3A in addition to human Sema3A was assumed that the proteins have a low specificity between the species compared to other proteins and thus, the sequence homology between the human Sema3A and mouse Sema3A is 98% or more. Therefore, it is considered that the antibody has cross-linking abilities to human Sema3A and mouse Sema3A (FIG. 16) .

In order to measure the binding affinities of three antiSema3A antibodies to human Sema3A and mouse Sema3A, SPR analysis was performed using Biacore system.

The measurement results showed that the binding affinities to human Sema3A were A08 (KD=1.187E-9), CIO (KD=5.312E-10), and Fll (KD=5.617E-10), and the binding affinities to mouse Sema3A were A08 (KD=4.221E-9), CIO (KD=3.090E-9), and Fll (KD=3.272E-10).

Accordingly, it was confirmed that three anti-Sema3A antibodies showed cross-reactivity, and particularly Fll showed the highest binding affinities to human Sema3A and mouse Sema3A (FIG. 17).

Example 6: Verification on Abilities of Anti-Sema3A IgG to inhibit cell migration

As previously verifying abilities of anti-Sema3A scFv to inhibit cancer cell migration, the abilities of three Sema3A antibodies (A08, CIO and Fll) converted to IgG forms to inhibit cancer cell migration were re-verified. Cell migration assay was performed using U87-MG, 131 and 83 cells hypersecreting Sema3A, and 2 ug/ml of anti-Sema3A antibodies. Cell migration assay was performed by the methods such as those shown in FIG. 11 through FIG. 13 as previously described.

For U87-MG cells, A08 exhibited the highest abilities to inhibit cell migration with 50% (FIG. 18), and for 131 and 83 cells, Fll was the most effective which showed lower levels of cell migration with 74% and 52% respectively, compared to the control (FIGS. 19 and 20).

Studies that ERK signal mechanism is associated with cell migration in which Sema3A is involved in colorectal cancer (Neufeld, G et al., Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine,2012) and that Sema3A is involved in Rho/ROCK signal mechanism and ERK signal mechanism in glioblastoma (Zohrabian, V. M., Anti-cancer research , 119-123,2009) have been reported.

lxlO⁶ cells of 83 cells were treated with Fll(50 ug/ml) for 30 minutes at 37°C, followed by performing Western Blotting to confirm whether the antibody can inhibit ERK phosphorylation or not. SDS-PAGE protein electrophoresis on 8% gel was carried out, and p-ERK, ERK and β-actin were probed with the antibodies.

The results of comparison of the control group and the experimental group with Fll treatment showed that ERK and Bactin were not changed, and ERK phosphorylation was reduced (FIG. 21).

Thus, it was confirmed that anti-Sema3A antibody inhibited cell migration by inhibiting the Phosphorylation of ERK among downstream signaling molecules of Sema3A.

Example 7: Verification on abilities of anti-Sema3A IgG to inhibit cell growth

Recombinant human Sema3A was treated with 131 and 83 cells followed by observing the changes of cell growth to find out whether Sema3A was involved in cell growth of glioblastoma. As the results of cell proliferation assay using Edu, it was confirmed that the cell growth was increased by 20 % and 15% in 131 and 83 cells, respectively (FIG. 22).

Then, As the results of Fll treatment to 131 cells, it was confirmed that the cell growth was inhibited depending on the

concentration	of antibody, and	the	inhibited	cell growth	to
40% compared	to the control	was	observed	at the highest
concentration	(2uM) of antibody	(FIG.	. 23) .
Example 8	: Assessment on	Efficacies of	Anti-Sema3A	IgG

with 131 Subcutaneous Model

To confirm anti-cancer efficacy of anti-Sema3A Fll in vivo, a xenograft model was constructed using gliobalstoma 131 cells hypersecreting Sema3A.

As the results of confirmation of the sizes of the tumor after injecting with 5 mg/kg and 25 mg/kg of anti-Sema3A Fll (i.v.) for 3 weeks, it was confirmed that the tumor size was reduced to 60% in the group injected with 25 mg/kg (3 times/week) as compared to the control (FIG. 24) . Also, the changes of the tumor weight of individual groups were similarly calculated (FIG. 25).

Specific changes of the body weight by anti-Sema3A antibody injected were not confirmed (FIG. 26) . Immunofluorescence was performed in control group and Group 3 tissues (Fll 25 mg/kg, 3 times/week) which exhibited the highest efficacy, and it was confirmed that Sema3A and p-ERK were significantly reduced in the tissues of the groups treated with anti-Sema3A.

Apoptosis effects were also observed due to an increase of TUNEL positive cells as compared to the control (FIG. 27) . Many publications have reported that Sema3A is involved in TAM infiltration (Casazza A, et al. Cancer cell. 2013; 24(6):695709 / Hu ZQ, et al. Oncotarget. 2016).

Thus, to confirm this, the reduction of TAM distribution by Sema3A antibody was confirmed through staining Ibal which is a macrophage marker (FIG. 28).

Although the specific features of the present invention has been described in detail, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that this description is only for a preferred embodiment and does not limit the scope of the present invention. Thus, the substantial scope of the present invention will be defined by the appended claims and eguivalents thereof.

Claims (10)

1. [CLAIMS] [Claim l]

   An antibody to human Sema3A or its antigen binding fragment comprising:

   (a) a heavy chain variable region comprising the following heavy chain complementarity determining region(CDR)

   amino acid sequences : CDRH1 1 consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO ¹ t CDRH2 consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO 2, and CDRH3 consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO

   3; and (b) a light chain variable region comprising the following light chain CDR amino acid sequences:

   Λ CDRL1 consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO ^q r CDRL2 consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO 5, and CDRL3 consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO

   6 .
2. [Claim 2]

   An antibody to human Sema3A or its antigen binding fragment comprising:

   (a) a heavy chain variable region comprising the following heavy chain CDR amino acid sequences:

   7 CDRH1 consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO ‘ r CDRH2 consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO 8, and CDRH3 consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO

   9; and (b) a light chain variable region comprising the following light chain CDR amino acid sequences:

   CDRL1 consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO CDRL2 consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO and CDRL3 consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO

   12 .
3. [Claim 3]

   An antibody to human Sema3A or its antigen binding fragment comprising:

   (a) a heavy chain variable region comprising the following heavy chain CDR amino acid sequences:

   CDRH1 consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO CDRH2 consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO and CDRH3 consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO

   15; and (b) a light chain variable region comprising the following light chain CDR amino acid sequences:

   CDRL1 consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:

   16,

   CDRL2 consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:

   17, and

   CDRL3 consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:

   18.
4. [Claim 4]

   The antibody or its antigen claim 1, wherein the heave chain amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
5. [Claim 5]

   The antibody or its antigen claim 1, wherein the light chain amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
6. [Claim 6]

   The antibody or its antigen claim 2, wherein the heave chain amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
7. [Claim 7]

   The antibody or its antigen claim 2, wherein the light chain amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:

   binding fragment according to variable region comprises the

   19.

   binding fragment according to variable region comprises the

   20.

   binding fragment according to variable region comprises the

   21.

   binding fragment according to variable region comprises the

   22 .
8. [Claim 8]

   The antibody or its antigen binding fragment according to claim 3, wherein the heavy chain variable region comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 23.
9. [Claim 9]

   The antibody or its antigen binding fragment according to claim 3, wherein the light chain variable region comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 24.
10. [Claim 10]

    The antibody or its antigen binding fragment according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the antibody or its antigen binding fragment is cross-linked to human Sema3A and mouse

    Sema3A.

    [Claim ll]

    A nucleic acid molecule encoding a heavy chain variable region of an antibody to be cross-linked to human Sema3A and mouse Sema3A comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO :19, SEQ ID NO :21 or SEQ ID NO :23.

    [Claim 12]

    A nucleic acid molecule encoding a light chain variable region of an antibody to be cross-linked to human Sema3A and mouse Sema3A comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO :20, SEQ ID NO :22 or SEQ ID NO :24.

    [Claim 13]

    A recombinant vector comprising the nucleic acid molecule of claim 11 or 12.

    [Claim 14]

    A host cell transformed with the recombinant vector of claim 13.

    [Claim 15]

    A pharmaceutical composition for preventing and treating cancers comprising:

    (a) a pharmaceutically effective amount of the antibody or its binding fragment against a human Sema3A of any one of claims 1 to 10; and (b) a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.

    [Claim 16]

    The pharmaceutical composition according to claim 15, wherein the cancer is breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, blood cancer, bone

    cancer, pancreatic cancer, skin cancer, brain cancer, cervical cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, laryngeal cancer, colon cancer, ovarian cancer, rectal cancer, colorectal cancer, vaginal cancer, small intestine cancer, endocrine cancer, thyroid cancer, parathyroid cancer, ureter cancer, urinary tract cancer, prostate cancer, bronchial cancer, bladder cancer, kidney cancer or marrow cancer.

    [Claim 17]

    A method for preventing or treating cancers comprising administering the pharmaceutical composition of any one of claims 15 to 16 to a subject.

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    9/37

    10/37 [FIG. 9]

    11/37 [FIG. 10]

    12/37 [FIG. 11]

    13/37 [FIG. 12]

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    Control AOS C10 Fll

    14/37 [FIG. 13]

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    20/37 [FIG. 16]

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    22/37

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    23/37

    Response [FIG. 17c]

    24137 [FIG. 17d]

    25/37

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    26/37 [FIG. 17f]

    150η

    F11_mSema3A

    KD=3.272E-10(M)

    Response

    50nM

    25nM

    12.5nM

    6.25nM

    3.125nM

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    Control AOS CIO Fll . .. ^: U87-MG celt

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    28/37 [FIG. 19]

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    Control A08 CIO 'F11

    29/37 [FIG. 20]

    30/37

    31/37

    32/37 [FIG. 23]

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    33/37 [FIG. 24]

    34/37 [FIG. 25]

    35/37 [FIG. 26]

    36/37 [FIG. 27]

    37/37 [FIG. 28] <110> SAMSUNG LIFE PUBLIC WELFARE FOUNDATION <120> ANTIBODY TO BE CROSS-LINKED TO HUMAN AND MOUSE SEMA3A, AND USE THEREOF <130> PP160085 <150> KR 15/0149272 <151> 2015-10-27 <150> KR 16/0123233 <151> 2016-09-26 <160> 24

    <170> Kopatentln 2.0 <210> 1 <211> 8 <212> PRT <213> Artificial Sequence <220> <223> A08 heavy chain CDR1 <400> 1 Gly Phe Thr Phe Ser Asp Tyr Ala 1 5 <210> 2 <211> 8 <212> PRT <213> Artificial Sequence <220> <223> A08 heavy chain CDR2 <400> 2 lie Tyr Tyr Asp Asp Ser Ser Gin 1 5 <210> 3 <211> 9 <212> PRT <213> Artificial Sequence <220> <223> A08 heavy chain CDR3 <400> 3 Ala Lys Asn Leu Gly Arg Phe Asp 1 5 <210> 4 <211> 8

    <212> <213> PRT Artificial Sequence

    <22O> <223> A08 light chain CDR1

    <400> 4

    Ser Ser Asn He Gly Ser Asn Ala

    1 5 <210> <211> <212> <213> 5 3 PRT Artificial Sequence

    <220> <223> A08 light chain CDR2

    <400> 5

    Asp Asp Asn

    <210> <211> <212> <213> 6 11 PRT Artificial Sequence <220> <223> A08 light chain CDR3

    <400> 6

    Gly Ala Trp Asp Asp Ser Leu Ser Ala Tyr Val

    1 5 10 <210> <211> <212> <213> 7 8 PRT Artificial Sequence

    <220> <223> CIO heavy chain CDR1

    <400> 7

    Gly Phe Thr Phe Ser Asp Tyr Ala

    1 5 <210> <211> <212> <213> 8 8 PRT Artificial Sequence

    <220> <223> CIO heavy chain CDR2

    <400> lie Tyr 1 8 Tyr Asp Asp 5 Ser Ser Gin <210> 9 <211> 9 <212> PRT <213> Artificial Sequence <220> <223> CIO heavy chain CDR3 <400> 9 Ala Arg Tyr Leu Gly Leu Phe Asp 1 5 <210> 10 <211> 8 <212> PRT <213> Artificial Sequence <220> <223> CIO light < chain CDR1 <400> 10 Ser Ser Asn lie Gly Asn Asn Ser 1 5 <210> 11 <211> 3 <212> PRT <213> Artificial Sequence <220> <223> CIO light chain CDR2 <400> 11 Ser Asp Ser 1 <210> 12 <211> 11 <212> PRT <213> Artificial Sequence

    <220>

    <223> CIO light chain CDR3 <4OO> 12

    Gly Ser Trp Asp Tyr Ser Leu Ser Ala Tyr Val 15 10

    <210> 13 <211> 8 <212> PRT <213> Artificial Sequence <220> <223> Fll heavy chain CDR1 <400> 13 Gly Phe Thr Phe Ser Asp Tyr Ala 1 5 <210> 14 <211> 8 <212> PRT <213> Artificial Sequence <220> <223> Fll heavy chain CDR2 <400> 14 He Tyr Tyr Asp Ser Gly Ser Lys 1 5 <210> 15 <211> 9 <212> PRT <213> Artificial Sequence <220> <223> Fll heavy chain CDR3 <400> 15 Ala Lys Leu Asn Gly Asp Phe Asp 1 5 <210> 16 <211> 8 <212> PRT <213> Artificial Sequence <220> <223> Fll light chain CDR1 <400> 16 Ser Ser Asn lie Gly Asn Asn Asp 1 5 <210> 17 <211> 3 <212> PRT

    <213> Artificial Sequence <220> <223> Fll light chain CDR2 <400> 17 Ala Asp Ser 1 <210> 18 <211> 11 <212> PRT <213> Artificial Sequence <220> <223> Fll light chain CDR3

    <400> 18

    Gly Ala Trp Asp Ser Ser Leu Ser Gly Tyr Val 15 10 <210> 19 <211> 116 <212> PRT <213> Artificial Sequence <220>

    <223> Heavy chain variable region of synthetic A08 scFv A/a <400> 19

    Glu Val 1 Gin Leu Leu 5 Glu Ser Gly Gly Gly 10 Leu Val Gin Pro Gly 15 Gly Ser Leu Arg Leu Ser Cys Ala Ala Ser Gly Phe Thr Phe Ser Asp Tyr 20 25 30 Ala Met Ser Trp Val Arg Gin Ala Pro Gly Lys Gly Leu Glu Trp Val 35 40 45 Ser Gly He Tyr Tyr Asp Asp Ser Ser Gin Tyr Tyr Ala Asp Ser Val 50 55 60 Lys Gly Arg Phe Thr lie Ser Arg Asp Asn Ser Lys Asn Thr Leu Tyr 65 70 75 80 Leu Gin Met Asn Ser Leu Arg Ala Glu Asp Thr Ala Val Tyr Tyr Cys 85 90 95 Ala Lys Asn Leu Gly Arg Phe Asp Tyr Trp Gly Gin Gly Thr Leu Val 100 105 110 Thr Val Ser Ser

    <210> 20

    115 <211> 110 <212> PRT <213> Artificial Sequence <220>

    <223> Light chain variable region of synthetic A08 scFv A/a

    <400> 20 Val Leu Thr 5 Gin Pro Pro Ser Ala 10 Ser Gly Thr Pro Gly 15 Gin Gin 1 Ser Arg Val Thr lie Ser Cys Thr Gly Ser Ser Ser Asn He Gly Ser Asn 20 25 30 Ala Val Thr Trp Tyr Gin Gin Leu Pro Gly Thr Ala Pro Lys Leu Leu 35 40 45 lie Tyr Asp Asp Asn His Arg Pro Ser Gly Val Pro Asp Arg Phe Ser 50 55 60 Gly Ser Lys Ser Gly Thr Ser Ala Ser Leu Ala He Ser Gly Leu Arg 65 70 75 80 Ser Glu Asp Glu Ala Asp Tyr Tyr Cys Gly Ala Trp Asp Asp Ser Leu 85 90 95 Ser Ala Tyr Val Phe Gly Gly Gly Thr Lys Leu Thr Val Leu 100 105 110 <210> 21 <211> 116 <212> PRT <213> Artificial Sequence <220> <223> Heavy chain variable region of synthetic CIO scFv A/a <400> 21 Glu Val Gin Leu Leu Glu Ser Gly Gly Gly Leu Val Gin Pro Gly Gly 1 5 10 15 Ser Leu Arg Leu Ser Cys Ala Ala Ser Gly Phe Thr Phe Ser Asp Tyr 20 25 30 Ala Met Ser Trp Val Arg Gin Ala Pro Gly Lys Gly Leu Glu Trp Val 35 40 45 Ser Gly He Tyr Tyr Asp Asp Ser Ser Gin Tyr Tyr Ala Asp Ser Val 50 55 60 Glu Gly Arg Phe Thr He Ser Arg Asp Asn Ser Lys Asn Thr Leu Tyr 65 70 75 80 Leu Gin Met Asn Ser Leu Arg Ala Glu Asp Thr Ala Val Tyr Tyr Cys 85 90 95 Ala Arg Tyr Leu Gly Leu Phe Asp Tyr Trp Gly Gin Gly Thr Leu Val 100 105 110

    Thr Val Ser Ser 115 <210> 22 <211> 110 <212> PRT <213> Artificial Sequence <220>

    <223> Light chain variable region of synthetic CIO scFv A/a

    <400> 22 Val Leu Thr 5 Gin Pro Pro Ser Ala 10 Ser Gly Thr Pro Gly 15 Gin Gin 1 Ser Arg Val Thr lie Ser Cys Ser Gly Ser Ser Ser Asn lie Gly Asn Asn 20 25 30 Ser Val Asn Trp Tyr Gin Gin Leu Pro Gly Thr Ala Pro Lys Leu Leu 35 40 45 lie Tyr Ser Asp Ser Gin Arg Pro Ser Gly Val Pro Asp Arg Phe Ser 50 55 60 Gly Ser Lys Ser Gly Thr Ser Ala Ser Leu Ala He Ser Gly Leu Arg 65 70 75 80 Ser Glu Asp Glu Ala ASp Tyr Tyr Cys Gly Ser Trp Asp Tyr Ser Leu 85 90 95 Ser Ala Tyr Val Phe Gly Gly Gly Thr Lys Leu Thr Val Leu 100 105 110 <210> 23 <211> 116 <212> PRT <213> Artificial Sequence <220> <223> Heavy chain variable region of synthetic Fll scFv A/a <400> 23 Glu Val Gin Leu Leu Glu Ser Gly Gly Gly Leu Val Gin Thr Gly Gly 1 5 10 15 Ser Leu Arg Leu Ser Cys Ala Ala Ser Gly Phe Thr Phe Ser Asp Tyr 20 25 30 Ala Met Ser Trp Val Arg Gin Ala Pro Gly Lys Gly Leu Glu Trp Val 35 40 45 Ser Trp He Tyr Tyr Asp Ser Gly Ser Lys Tyr Tyr Ala Asp Ser Val 50 55 60 Lys Gly Arg Phe Thr He Ser Arg Asp Asn Ser Lys Asn Thr Leu Tyr 65 70 75 80

    Leu Gin Met Asn Ser Leu Arg Ala Glu Asp Thr Ala Val Tyr Tyr Cys 85 90 95

    Ala Lys Leu Asn Gly Asp Phe Asp Tyr Trp Gly Gin Gly Thr Leu Val 100 105 110 Thr Val Ser Ser

    115 <210> 24 <211> 110 <212> PRT <213> Artificial Sequence <220>

    <223> Light chain variable region of synthetic Fll scFv A/a

    <400> 24 Val Leu Thr Gin 5 Pro Pro Ser Ala 10 Ser Gly Thr Pro Gly 15 Gin Gin 1 Ser Arg Val Thr He Ser Cys Ser Gly Ser Ser Ser Asn He Gly Asn Asn 20 25 30 Asp Val Ser Trp Tyr Gin Gin Leu Pro Gly Thr Ala Pro Lys Leu Leu 35 40 45 lie Tyr Ala Asp Ser His Arg Pro Ser Gly Val Pro Asp Arg Phe Ser 50 55 60 Gly Ser Lys Ser Gly Thr Ser Ala Ser Leu Ala lie Ser Gly Leu Arg 65 70 75 80 Ser Glu Asp Glu Ala Asp Tyr Tyr Cys Gly Ala Trp Asp Ser Ser Leu 85 90 95 Ser Gly Tyr Val Phe Gly Gly Gly Thr Lys Leu Thr Val Leu 100 105 110