US20080267971A1 - Antibodies Directed to Angiopoietin-2 and Uses Thereof - Google Patents

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  • the invention relates to monoclonal antibodies against Angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2) and uses of such antibodies. More specifically, the invention relates to fully human monoclonal antibodies directed to Ang-2 and uses of these antibodies. Aspects of the invention also relate to hybridomas or other cell lines expressing such antibodies. The described antibodies are useful as diagnostics and for the treatment of diseases associated with the activity and/or overproduction of Ang-2.
  • Ang-2 Angiopoietin-2
  • Angiogenesis is the process of forming new capillaries from preexisting blood vessels and is an essential component of embryogenesis, normal physiological growth, repair, and tumor expansion. Although a variety of factors can modulate endothelial cell (EC) responses in vitro and blood vessel growth in vivo, only vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) family members and the angiopoietins are believed to act almost exclusively on vascular ECs. Yancopoulos et al., Nature 407:242-48 (2000).
  • angiopoietins were discovered as ligands for the Ties, a family of tyrosine kinases that is selectively expressed within the vascular endothelium. Yancopoulos et al., Nature 407:242-48 (2000). There are now four definitive members of the angiopoietin family. Angiopoietin-3 and -4 (Ang-3 and Ang-4) may represent widely diverged counterparts of the same gene locus in mouse and man. Kim et al., FEBS Let, 443:353-56 (1999); Kim et al., J Biol Chem 274:26523-28 (1999). Ang-1 and Ang-2 were originally identified in tissue culture experiments as agonist and antagonist, respectively.
  • Ang-1 was shown to support EC survival and to promote endothelium integrity, Davis et al., Cell 87:1161-69 (1996); Kwak et al., FEBS Lett 448:249-53 (1999); Suri et al., Science 282:468-71 (1998); Thurston et al., Science 286: 2511-14 (1999); Thurston et al., Nat. Med. 6:460-63 (2000), whereas Ang-2 had the opposite effect and promoted blood vessel destabilization and regression in the absence of the survival factors VEGF or basic fibroblast growth factor. Maisonpierre et al., Science 277:55-60 (1997). However, many studies of Ang-2 function have suggested a more complex situation.
  • Ang-2 might be a complex regulator of vascular remodeling that plays a role in both vessel sprouting and vessel regression. Supporting such roles for Ang-2, expression analyses reveal that Ang-2 is rapidly induced, together with VEGF, in adult settings of angiogenic sprouting, whereas Ang-2 is induced in the absence of VEGF in settings of vascular regression. Holash et al., Science 284:1994-98 (1999); Holash et al., Oncogene 18:5356-62 (1999). Consistent with a context-dependent role, Ang-2 binds to the same endothelial-specific receptor, Tie-2, which is activated by Ang-1, but has context-dependent effects on its activation. Maisonpierre et al., Science 277:55-60 (1997).
  • Ang-2 can also induce Tie2 activation and promote formation of capillary-like structures.
  • Mochizuki et al. J. Cell. Sci. 115:175-83 (2002).
  • Use of a 3-D spheroidal coculture as an in vitro model of vessel maturation demonstrated that direct contact between ECs and mesenchymal cells abrogates responsiveness to VEGF, whereas the presence of VEGF and Ang-2 induced sprouting.
  • Korff et al. Faseb J 15:447-57 (2001). Etoh et al.
  • Ang-2 promotes endothelial cell death and vessel regression without endogenous VEGF.
  • Lobov et al. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99:11205-10 (2002).
  • Vajkoczy et al. demonstrated that multicellular aggregates initiate vascular growth by angiogenic sprouting via the simultaneous expression of VEGFR-2 and Ang-2 by host and tumor endothelium. Vajkoczy et al., J. Clin. Invest. 109:777-85 (2002).
  • This model illustrated that the established microvasculature of growing tumors is characterized by a continuous remodeling, putatively mediated by the expression of VEGF and Ang-2. Vajkoczy et al., J. Clin. Invest. 109:777-85 (2002).
  • Knock-out mouse studies of Tie-2 and Angiopoietin-1 show similar phenotypes and suggest that Angiopoietin-1 stimulated Tie-2 phosphorylation mediates remodeling and stabilization of developing vessel, promoting blood vessel maturation during angiogenesis and maintenance of endothelial cell-support cell adhesion (Dumont et al., Genes & Development, 8:1897-1909 (1994); Sato, Nature, 376:70-74 (1995); (Thurston, G. et al., 2000 Nature Medicine: 6, 460-463)).
  • Angiopoietin-1 The role of Angiopoietin-1 is thought to be conserved in the adult, where it is expressed widely and constitutively (Hanahan, Science, 277:48-50 (1997); Zagzag, et al., Exp Neurology, 159:391-400 (1999)).
  • Angiopoietin-2 expression is primarily limited to sites of vascular remodeling where it is thought to block the constitutive stabilizing or maturing function of Angiopoietin-1, allowing vessels to revert to, and remain in, a plastic state which may be more responsive to sprouting signals (Hanahan, 1997; Holash et al., Oncogene 18:5356-62 (1999); Maisonpierre, 1997).
  • Angiopoietin-2 expression in pathological angiogenesis have found many tumor types to show vascular Angiopoietin-2 expression (Maisonpierre et al., Science 277:55-60 (1997)). Functional studies suggest Angiopoietin-2 is involved in tumor angiogenesis and associate Angiopoietin-2 overexpression with increased tumor growth in a mouse xenograft model (Ahmad, et al., Cancer Res., 61:1255-1259 (2001)). Other studies have associated Angiopoietin-2 overexpression with tumor hypervascularity (Etoh, et al., Cancer Res. 61:2145-53 (2001); Tanaka et al., Cancer Res. 62:7124-29 (2002)).
  • Angiopoietin-1, Angiopoietin-2 and/or Tic-2 have been proposed as possible anti-cancer therapeutic targets.
  • U.S. Pat. No. 6,166,185, U.S. Pat. No. 5,650,490 and U.S. Pat. No. 5,814,464 each disclose anti-Tie-2 ligand and receptor antibodies.
  • Studies using soluble Tie-2 were reported to decrease the number and size of tumors in rodents (Lin, 1997; Lin 1998).
  • Siemester et al. (1999) generated human melanoma cell lines expressing the extracellular domain of Tie-2, injected these into nude nice and reported soluble Tie-2 to result in significant inhibition of tumor growth and tumor angiogenesis.
  • Patent Application Publication No. 2003/0124129 A1 Study of the effect of focal expression of Angiopoietin-2 has shown that antagonizing the Angiopoietin-1/Tie-2 signal loosens the tight vascular structure thereby exposing ECs to activating signals from angiogenesis inducers, e.g. VEGF (Hanahan, 1997). This pro-angiogenic effect resulting from inhibition of Angiopoietin-1 indicates that anti-Angiopoietin-1 therapy would not be an effective anti-cancer treatment.
  • angiogenesis inducers e.g. VEGF (Hanahan, 1997.
  • Ang-2 is expressed during development at sites where blood vessel remodeling is occurring. Maisonpierre et al., Science 277:55-60 (1997). In adult individuals, Ang-2 expression is restricted to sites of vascular remodeling as well as in highly vascularized tumors, including glioma, Osada et al., Int. J. Oncol. 18:305-09 (2001); Koga et al., Cancer Res. 61:6248-54 (2001), hepatocellular carcinoma, Tanaka et al, J. Clin. Invest. 103:341-45 (1999), gastric carcinoma, Etoh, et al., Cancer Res. 61:2145-53 (2001); Lee et al, Int. J. Oncol.
  • Gale et al. Dev. Cell 3:411-23 (2002). They showed that the developmentally programmed regression of the hyaloid vasculature in the eye does not occur in the Ang-2 ⁇ / ⁇ mice and their retinal blood vessels fail to sprout out from the central retinal artery. Gale et al., Dev. Cell 3:411-23 (2002). They also found that deletion of Ang-2 results in profound defects in the patterning and function of the lymphatic vasculature. Gale et al., Dev. Cell 3:411-23 (2002). Genetic rescue with Ang-1 corrects the lymphatic, but not the angiogenesis defects. Gale et al., Dev. Cell 3:411-23 (2002).
  • soluble Tie2 when delivered either as recombinant protein or in a viral expression vector, inhibited in vivo growth of murine mammary carcinoma and melanoma in mouse models. Lin et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95:8829-34 (1998); Lin et al., J. Clin. Invest. 100:2072-78 (1997). Vascular densities in the tumor tissues so treated were greatly reduced. In addition, soluble Tie2 blocked angiogenesis in the rat corneal stimulated by tumor cell conditioned media. Lin et al., J. Clin. Invest. 100:2072-78 (1997).
  • RNA aptamer that specifically binds and inhibits Ang-2 significantly inhibited neovascularization induced by bFGF in the rat corneal micropocket angiogenesis model.
  • Embodiments of the invention relate to targeted binding agents that specifically bind to Angiopoietin-2 and therein inhibit tumor angiogenesis and reduce tumor growth.
  • Mechanisms by which this can be achieved can include and are not limited to either inhibition of binding of Ang-2 to its receptor Tie2, inhibition of Ang-2 induced Tie2 signaling, or increased clearance of Ang-2, therein reducing the effective concentration of Ang-2.
  • the targeted binding agent is a fully human antibody that binds to Ang-2 and prevents Ang-2 binding to Tie2.
  • Yet another embodiment of the invention is a fully human monoclonal antibody that binds to Ang-2 and Ang-1, and also inhibits Ang-2 induced Tie2 phosphorylation.
  • the antibody may bind Ang-2 with a K d of less than 100 pM, 30 pM, 20 pM, 10 pM or 5 pM.
  • the antibody may comprise a heavy chain amino acid sequence having a complementarity determining region (CDR) with one of the sequences shown in Table 11. It is noted that those of ordinary skill in the art can readily accomplish CDR determinations. See for example, Kabat et al., Sequences of Proteins of Immunological Interest , Fifth Edition, NIH Publication 91-3242, Bethesda Md. (1991), vols. 1-3.
  • CDR complementarity determining region
  • One embodiment of the invention comprises fully human monoclonal antibodies 3.3.2 (ATCC Accession Number PTA-7258), 3.1-9.3 (ATCC Accession Number PTA-7260) and 5.88.3 (ATCC Accession Number PTA-7259) which specifically bind to Ang-2, as discussed in more detail below.
  • Yet another embodiment is an antibody that binds to Ang-2 and comprises a light chain amino acid sequence having a CDR comprising one of the sequences shown in Table 12.
  • the antibody is a fully human monoclonal antibody.
  • a further embodiment is an antibody that binds to Ang-2 and comprises a heavy chain amino acid sequence having one of the CDR sequences shown in Table 11 and a light chain amino acid sequence having one of the CDR sequences shown in Table 12.
  • the antibody is a fully human monoclonal antibody.
  • a further embodiment of the invention is an antibody that cross-competes for binding to Ang-2 with the fully human antibodies of the invention, preferably an antibody comprising a heavy chain amino acid sequence having one of the CDR sequences shown in Table 11 and a light chain amino acid sequence having one of the CDR sequences shown in Table 12.
  • a further embodiment of the invention is an antibody that binds to the same epitope on Ang-2 as a fully human antibodies of the invention, preferably an antibody comprising a heavy chain amino acid sequence having one of the CDR sequences shown in Table 11 and a light chain amino acid sequence having one of the CDR sequences shown in Table 12.
  • the antibodies provided herein can also include a heavy chain complementarity determining region 2 (CDR2) corresponding to canonical class 3, a light chain complementarity determining region 1 (CDR1) corresponding to canonical class 2, a light chain complementarity determining region 2 (CDR2) corresponding to canonical class 1, and a light chain complementarity determining region 3 (CDR3) corresponding to canonical class 1.
  • the invention further provides methods for assaying the level of Angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2) in a patient sample, comprising contacting an anti-Ang-2 antibody with a biological sample from a patient, and detecting the level of binding between said antibody and Ang-2 in said sample.
  • the biological sample is blood.
  • compositions including an antibody or functional fragment thereof, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
  • Still further embodiments of the invention include methods of effectively treating an animal suffering from an angiogenesis-related disease, including selecting an animal in need of treatment for a neoplastic or non-neoplastic disease, and administering to said animal a therapeutically effective dose of a fully human monoclonal antibody that specifically binds to Angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2).
  • Ang-2 Angiopoietin-2
  • Treatable angiogenesis-related diseases can include neoplastic diseases, such as, melanoma, small cell lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, glioma, hepatocellular (liver) carcinoma, thyroid tumor, gastric (stomach) cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, bladder cancer, lung cancer, glioblastoma, endometrial cancer, kidney cancer, colon cancer, pancreatic cancer, esophageal carcinoma, head and neck cancers, mesothelioma, sarcomas, biliary (cholangiocarcinoma), small bowel adenocarcinoma, pediatric malignancies and epidermoid carcinoma.
  • neoplastic diseases such as, melanoma, small cell lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, glioma, hepatocellular (liver) carcinoma, thyroid tumor, gastric (stomach) cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, bladder cancer, lung cancer, glioblast
  • Additional embodiments of the invention include methods of inhibiting Angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2) induced angiogenesis in an animal. These methods include selecting an animal in need of treatment for Ang-2 induced angiogenesis, and administering to said animal a therapeutically effective dose of a fully human monoclonal antibody wherein said antibody specifically binds to Ang-2.
  • Ang-2 Angiopoietin-2
  • Treatable angiogenesis-related diseases can include neoplastic diseases, such as, melanoma, small cell lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, glioma, hepatocellular (liver) carcinoma, thyroid tumor, gastric (stomach) cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, bladder cancer, lung cancer, glioblastoma, endometrial cancer, kidney cancer, colon cancer, pancreatic cancer, esophageal carcinoma, head and neck cancers, mesothelioma, sarcomas, cholangiocarcinoma, small bowel adenocarcinoma, pediatric malignancies and epidermoid carcinoma.
  • neoplastic diseases such as, melanoma, small cell lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, glioma, hepatocellular (liver) carcinoma, thyroid tumor, gastric (stomach) cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, bladder cancer, lung cancer, glioblastoma,
  • the antibodies described herein can be used for the preparation of a medicament for the effective treatment of Angiopoietin-2 induced angiogenesis in an animal, wherein said monoclonal antibody specifically binds to Angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2).
  • Embodiments of the invention described herein relate to monoclonal antibodies that bind Ang-2 and affect Ang-2 function.
  • Other embodiments relate to fully human anti-Ang-2 antibodies and anti-Ang-2 antibody preparations with desirable properties from a therapeutic perspective, including high binding affinity for Ang-2, the ability to neutralize Ang-2 in vitro and in vivo, and the ability to inhibit Ang-2 induced angiogenesis.
  • antibodies described herein bind to Ang-2 with very high affinities (Kd).
  • Kd very high affinities
  • a human, rabbit, mouse, chimeric or humanized antibody that is capable of binding Ang-2 with a I(d less than, but not limited to, 10 ⁇ , 10 ⁇ 6 , 10 ⁇ 7 , 10 ⁇ 8 , 10 ⁇ 9 , 10 ⁇ 10 , 10 ⁇ 11 , 10 ⁇ 12 , 10 ⁇ 13 or 10 ⁇ 14 M, or any range or value therein.
  • Affinity and/or avidity measurements can be measured by KinExA® and/or BIACOR®, as described herein.
  • one embodiment described herein includes isolated antibodies, or fragments of those antibodies, that bind to Ang-2.
  • the antibodies can advantageously be, for example, polyclonal, oligoclonal, monoclonal, chimeric, humanized, and/or fully human antibodies.
  • Embodiments of the invention described herein also provide cells for producing these antibodies.
  • Another embodiment of the invention is a fully human antibody that binds to other Angiopoietin-2 family members including, but not limited to, Angiopoietin-1, Angiopoietin-3, and Angiopoietin-4.
  • a further embodiment herein is an antibody that cross-competes for binding to Tie2 with Ang-2 with the fully human antibodies of the invention.
  • the antibody binds to and neutralizes Angiopoietin-2, and also binds to and neutralizes, Angiopoietin-1.
  • the anti-Ang-2 antibody may be a full-length antibody (e.g., having an intact human Fc region) or an antibody fragment (e.g., a Fab, Fab′ or F(ab′) 2 ).
  • the antibody may be manufactured from a hybridoma that secretes the antibody, or from a recombinantly produced cell that has been transformed or transfected with a gene or genes encoding the antibody.
  • embodiments of the invention include isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding any of the antibodies described herein, vectors having isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding anti-Ang-2 antibodies or a host cell transformed with any of such nucleic acid molecules.
  • one embodiment of the invention is a method of producing an anti-Ang-2 antibody by culturing host cells under conditions wherein a nucleic acid molecule is expressed to produce the antibody followed by recovering the antibody.
  • embodiments of the invention also include any nucleic acid molecule which encodes an antibody or fragment of an antibody of the invention including nucleic acid sequences optimized for increasing yields of antibodies or fragments thereof when transfected into host cells for antibody production.
  • a further embodiment herein includes a method of producing high affinity antibodies to Ang-2 by immunizing a mammal with human Ang-2, or a fragment thereof, and one or more orthologous sequences or fragments thereof.
  • Ang-2 is expressed at elevated levels in angiogenesis-related diseases, such as neoplastic diseases. Inhibition of the biological activity of Ang-2 can prevent Ang-2 induced angiogenesis and other desired effects.
  • Another embodiment of the invention includes a method of diagnosing diseases or conditions in which an antibody prepared as described herein is utilized to detect the level of Ang-2 in a patient sample.
  • the patient sample is blood or blood serum.
  • methods for the identification of risk factors, diagnosis of disease, and staging of disease is presented which involves the identification of the overexpression of Ang-2 using anti-Ang-2 antibodies.
  • Another embodiment of the invention includes a method for diagnosing a condition associated with the expression of Ang-2 in a cell by contacting the serum or a cell with an anti-Ang-2 antibody, and thereafter detecting the presence of Ang-2.
  • Preferred conditions include angiogenesis-related diseases including, but not limited to, neoplastic diseases, such as, melanoma, small cell lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, glioma, hepatocellular (liver) carcinoma, glioblastoma, and carcinoma of the thyroid, stomach, prostate, breast, ovary, bladder, lung, uterus, kidney, colon, and pancreas, salivary gland, and colorectum.
  • neoplastic diseases such as, melanoma, small cell lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, glioma, hepatocellular (liver) carcinoma, glioblastoma, and carcinoma of the thyroid, stomach, prostate, breast, ovary, bladder, lung, uterus, kidney, colon, and
  • the invention includes an assay kit for detecting Angiopoietin-2 and Angiopoietin family members in mammalian tissues, cells, or body fluids to screen for angiogenesis-related diseases.
  • the kit includes an antibody that binds to Angiopoietin-2 and a means for indicating the reaction of the antibody with Angiopoietin-2, if present.
  • the antibody is a monoclonal antibody.
  • the antibody that binds Ang-2 is labeled.
  • the antibody is an unlabeled primary antibody and the kit further includes a means for detecting the primary antibody.
  • the means includes a labeled second antibody that is an anti-immunoglobulin.
  • the antibody is labeled with a marker selected from the group consisting of a fluorochrome, an enzyme, a radionuclide and a radiopaque material.
  • Yet another embodiment includes methods for treating diseases or conditions associated with the expression of Ang-2 in a patient, by administering to the patient an effective amount of an anti-Ang-2 antibody.
  • the anti-Ang-2 antibody can be administered alone, or can be administered in combination with additional antibodies or chemotherapeutic drug or radiation therapy.
  • a monoclonal, oligoclonal or polyclonal mixture of Ang-2 antibodies that block angiogenesis can be administered in combination with a drug shown to inhibit tumor cell proliferation directly.
  • the method can be performed in vivo and the patient is preferably a human patient.
  • the method concerns the treatment of angiogenesis-related diseases including, but not limited to, neoplastic diseases, such as, melanoma, small cell lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, glioma, hepatocellular (liver) carcinoma, glioblastoma, and carcinoma of the thyroid, stomach, prostate, breast, ovary, bladder, lung, uterus, kidney, colon, and pancreas, salivary gland, and colorectum.
  • neoplastic diseases such as, melanoma, small cell lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, glioma, hepatocellular (liver) carcinoma, glioblastoma, and carcinoma of the thyroid, stomach, prostate, breast, ovary, bladder, lung, uterus, kidney, colon, and pancreas, salivary gland, and colorectum.
  • the invention provides an article of manufacture including a container.
  • the container includes a composition containing an anti-Ang-2 antibody, and a package insert or label indicating that the composition can be used to treat angiogenesis-related diseases characterized by the overexpression of Ang-2.
  • the anti-Ang-2 antibody is administered to a patient, followed by administration of a clearing agent to remove excess circulating antibody from the blood.
  • an anti-Ang-2 antibody in the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of diseases such as angiogenesis-related diseases.
  • the angiogenesis-related diseases include carcinoma, such as breast, ovarian, stomach, endometrial, salivary gland, lung, kidney, colon, colorectum, esophageal, thyroid, pancreatic, prostate and bladder cancer.
  • the angiogenesis-related diseases include, but are not limited to, neoplastic diseases, such as, melanoma, small cell lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, glioma, hepatocellular (liver) carcinoma, sarcoma, head and neck cancers, mesothelioma, biliary (cholangiocarcinoma), small bowel adenocarcinoma, pediatric malignancies and glioblastoma.
  • neoplastic diseases such as, melanoma, small cell lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, glioma, hepatocellular (liver) carcinoma, sarcoma, head and neck cancers, mesothelioma, biliary (cholangiocarcinoma), small bowel adenocarcinoma, pediatric malignancies and glioblastoma.
  • Ang-2 is an important “on-switch” of angiogenesis. Accordingly, antagonizing this molecule is expected to inhibit pathophysiological procedures, and thereby act as a potent therapy for various angiogenesis-dependent diseases. Besides solid tumors and their metastases, haematologic malignancies, such as leukemias, lymphomas and multiple myeloma, are also angiogenesis-dependent. Excessive vascular growth contributes to numerous non-neoplastic disorders. These non-neoplastic angiogenesis-dependent diseases include: atherosclerosis, haemangioma, haemangioendothelioma, angiofibroma, vascular malformations (e.g.
  • HHT Hereditary Hemorrhagic Teleangiectasia
  • warts warts, pyogenic granulomas, excessive hair growth, Kaposis' sarcoma, scar keloids, allergic oedema, psoriasis, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, follicular cysts, ovarian hyperstimulation, endometriosis, respiratory distress, ascites, peritoneal sclerosis in dialysis patients, adhesion formation result from abdominal surgery, obesity, rheumatoid arthritis, synovitis, osteomyelitis, pannus growth, osteophyte, hemophilic joints, inflammatory and infectious processes (e.g.
  • hepatitis hepatitis, pneumonia, glomerulonephritis
  • asthma nasal polyps
  • liver regeneration pulmonary hypertension
  • retinopathy of prematurity diabetic retinopathy
  • age-related macular degeneration leukomalacia
  • neovascular glaucoma corneal graft neovascularization
  • trachoma thyroiditis, thyroid enlargement, and lymphoproliferative disorders.
  • FIG. 1 is a Western Blot showing that Ang-2 mAbs inhibit Ang-2-induced phosphorylation of Tie2 ectopically expressed in HEK293F cells.
  • FIG. 2 is a line graph of the dose-response relationship of anti-Ang-2 monoclonal antibodies on the inhibition of Ang-2 induced Tie2 phosphorylation.
  • FIG. 3 is a line graph showing inhibition of both Ang-1 (top graph) and Ang-2 (bottom graph) binding to Tie2 in a dose-dependent manner using mAb 3.19.3 or Tie2/Fc.
  • FIG. 4 is a Western blot showing inhibition of Angiopoietin-1 stimulated phosphorylation of Tie-2 on Eahy 926 endothelial cells by mAb 3.19.3. Inhibition of Angiopoietin-1 induced Tie-2 phosphorylation is observed in this system. The antibody concentrations are shown in nM.
  • FIG. 5 is a line graph showing inhibition of Angiopoietin-1 stimulated phosphorylation of Tie-2 on Eahy 926 endothelial cells by mAb 3.19.3.
  • the IC50 99 nM.
  • the x axis is the concentration of mAb 3.19.3 and the y axis indicates the response.
  • FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of the protein structure of human Ang-2 and Ang-2 443 .
  • the upper numbers denote amino acid sequences (diagram taken from Injune et al., (2000) JBC 275: 18550).
  • FIG. 7 displays the amino acid sequence of a Mouse/Human chimeric molecule (SEQ ID NO: 1).
  • the human residues (cloned as StuI-TfiI fragment) 310-400 are underlined.
  • FIG. 8 is an amino acid sequence comparison of human Ang-1 (SEQ ID NO: 2), human Ang-2 (SEQ ID NO: 3), and mouse Ang-2 (SEQ ID NO: 4) proteins.
  • the fusion points of Ang-2 chimeric molecules and point mutations are noted in bold.
  • FIG. 9 is an amino acid sequence comparison of mouse Ang-1 (SEQ ID NO: 5), human Ang-1 (SEQ ID NO: 2), mouse Ang-2 (SEQ ID NO: 4), and human Ang-2 (SEQ ID NO: 3).
  • the arrowhead shows the cleavage site for hydrophobic leader sequences.
  • the arrows define the limits of the coiled-coil and fibrinogen like domains.
  • the solid circles show the conserved cysteine residues (image taken from Maisonpierre et al., 1997 , Science 277:55).
  • FIG. 10 is a line graph demonstrating mouse cross-reactivity in a dose-response relationship. Monoclonal antibody clones 5.2.1, 5.28.1, 3.19.3, and 3.31.2 are shown.
  • FIG. 11 is a line graph showing inhibition of both human (black triangles) and mouse (black squares) Ang-2 binding to human Tie2 in a dose-dependent manner using mAb 3.19.3.
  • FIG. 12 is a bar graph analysis of the effect of antibodies on MCF-7 cell-induced angiogenesis.
  • FIG. 12A shows the effect of anti-Ang-2 antibodies on the number of blood vessels ends where the x axis indicates the experimental groups and the y axis indicates the mean number of vessel ends (+/ ⁇ SD).
  • FIG. 12B demonstrates the effect of anti-Ang-2 antibodies on blood vessel length where the x axis indicates the experimental groups and the y axis indicates the mean vessel length (+/ ⁇ SD).
  • FIG. 13 is a line graph showing the anti-tumor effect of the anti-Ang-2 monoclonal antibody clone 3.19.3, as tested in a mouse xenograft model of human skin epidermoid carcinoma using the A431 cell line.
  • the x axis indicates the number of days post tumor cell implantation and the y axis indicates the mean tumor volume+/ ⁇ SEM in cm 3 .
  • the Solid black triangles represent the post implantation tumor volume measurements of mice injected with anti-Ang-2 monoclonal antibody clone 3.19.3; the solid black circles represent the post implantation tumor volume measurements of mice injected with an isotype control antibody PK16.3.1.
  • FIG. 14A is a line graph showing prevention of tumor growth in the human colon adenocarcinoma LoVo xenograft model with tumor size indicated for mice treated with 0.5, 2, and 10 mg/kg or isotype control indicated.
  • the x axis indicates the number of days post tumor cell implantation and the y axis indicates the mean tumor volume +/ ⁇ SEM in cm 3 .
  • FIG. 14B is a line graph showing tumor growth inhibitory effect of the mAb in a human colon adenocarcinoma SW480 xenograft model.
  • FIG. 15A is a line graph showing prevention of tumor growth in the HT29 xenograft model.
  • the x axis indicates the number of days post tumor cell implantation, and the y axis indicates the mean tumor volume +/ ⁇ SEM in cm3.
  • FIG. 15B is a line graph showing prevention of tumor growth in the Calu-6 xenograft model with tumor size indicated for mice treated with 10 mg/kg of mAb clone 3.3.2 or 3.19.3 or with isotype control antibody.
  • FIG. 15C is a bar graph indicating the density of CD31+ staining in tumors from MDA-MB-231 tumor-bearing mice treated with either IgG control or 10 mg/kg 3.19.3 mAb. Results from both threshold and manual grid counting methods are shown.
  • Embodiments of the invention described herein relate to monoclonal antibodies that bind to Ang-2.
  • the antibodies bind to Ang-2 and inhibit the binding of Ang-2 to its receptor, Tie2.
  • Other embodiments of the invention include fully human anti-Ang-2 antibodies, and antibody preparations that are therapeutically useful.
  • Such anti-Ang-2 antibody preparations preferably have desirable therapeutic properties, including strong binding affinity for Ang-2, the ability to neutralize Ang-2 in vitro, and the ability to inhibit Ang-2-induced angiogenesis in vivo.
  • One embodiment of the invention includes an antibody that binds to and neutralizes Ang-2, but does not bind to Ang-1. In another embodiment, the antibody binds to both Ang-2 and Ang-1, but only neutralizes Ang-2. In another embodiment, the antibody binds to both Ang-2 and Ang-1, and neutralizes binding of both Ang-1 and Ang-2 to Tie2.
  • Embodiments of the invention also include isolated binding fragments of anti-Ang-2 antibodies.
  • the binding fragments are derived from fully human anti-Ang-2 antibodies.
  • Exemplary fragments include Fv, Fab′ or other well know antibody fragments, as described in more detail below.
  • Embodiments of the invention also include cells that express fully human antibodies against Ang-2. Examples of cells include hybridomas, or recombinantly created cells, such as Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, variants of CHO cells (for example DG44) and NS0 cells that produce antibodies against Ang-2. Additional information about variants of CHO cells can be found in Andersen and Reilly (2004) Current Opinion in Biotechnology 15, 456-462 which is incorporated herein in its entirety by reference.
  • embodiments of the invention include methods of using these antibodies for treating diseases.
  • Anti-Ang-2 antibodies are useful for preventing Ang-2 mediated Tie2 signal transduction, thereby inhibiting angiogenesis.
  • the mechanism of action of this inhibition may include inhibition of Ang-2 from binding to its receptor, Tie2, inhibition of Ang-2 induced Tie2 signaling, or enhanced clearance of Ang-2 therein lowering the effective concentration of Ang-2 for binding to Tie-2.
  • neoplastic diseases such as, melanoma, small cell lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, glioma, hepatocellular (liver) carcinoma, glioblastoma, and cancers and tumors of the thyroid, stomach, prostate, breast, ovary, bladder, lung, uterus, kidney, colon, and pancreas, salivary gland, and colorectal.
  • neoplastic diseases such as, melanoma, small cell lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, glioma, hepatocellular (liver) carcinoma, glioblastoma, and cancers and tumors of the thyroid, stomach, prostate, breast, ovary, bladder, lung, uterus, kidney, colon, and pancreas, salivary gland, and colorectal.
  • kits for specifically determining the quantity of Ang-2 in a biological sample.
  • the assay kit can include anti-Ang-2 antibodies along with the necessary labels for detecting such antibodies.
  • These diagnostic assays are useful to screen for angiogenesis-related diseases including, but not limited to, neoplastic diseases, such as, melanoma, small cell lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, glioma, hepatocellular (liver) carcinoma, glioblastoma, and carcinoma of the thyroid, stomach, prostate, breast, ovary, bladder, lung, uterus, kidney, colon, and pancreas, salivary gland, and colorectum.
  • neoplastic diseases such as, melanoma, small cell lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, glioma, hepatocellular (liver) carcinoma, glioblastoma, and carcinoma of the thyroid, stomach, prostate, breast, ovary, bladder, lung, uterus, kidney, colon, and pancreas, salivary gland
  • an antagonist of the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2 wherein the antagonist does not bind to the ATP-binding site of Tie-2.
  • an antagonist of the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2 wherein the antagonist binds to Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2.
  • an antagonist of the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2 wherein the antagonist is not a compound.
  • an antagonist of the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2 wherein the Angiopoietin-1 antagonist activity and the Angiopoietin-2 antagonist activity is comprised within one molecule.
  • an antagonist of the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2 wherein the antagonist may bind to:
  • the antagonist of the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2 may bind to Angiopoietin-1 and/or Angiopoietin-2 and/or Tie-2 and thereby prevent Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2 mediated Tie-2 signal transduction, thereby inhibiting angiogenesis.
  • the mechanism of action of this inhibition may include;
  • Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2 sufficient to antagonize the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2.
  • antagonism of the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2 include, but are not limited to, inhibition of binding of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2 to the receptor Tie-2, inhibition of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2 induced Tie-2 signaling, or increased clearance of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2, therein reducing the effective concentration of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2.
  • an antagonist of the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2 wherein the antagonist is an antibody.
  • the antibody is able to antagonize the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and/or Angiopoietin-2 in vitro and in vivo.
  • the antibody is a polyclonal or monoclonal antibody. More preferably the antibody is a monoclonal antibody and more preferably the antibody is a fully human monoclonal antibody. Most preferably the antibody is the fully human monoclonal antibody 3.19.3.
  • an antibody which binds to the same epitope or epitopes as fully human monoclonal antibody 3.19.3.
  • a fully human antibody that binds to Angiopoietin-1 and prevents Angiopoietin-1 binding to Tie-2.
  • Yet another embodiment of the invention is a fully human monoclonal antibody that binds to Angiopoietin-1 and inhibits Angiopoietin-1 induced Tie-2 phosphorylation.
  • the antibody binds Angiopoietin-1 with a K d of less than 1 nanomolar (nM). More preferably, the antibody binds with a Kd less than 500 picomolar (pM). More preferably, the antibody binds with a Kd less than 100 picomolar (pM).
  • the antibody binds with a Kd less than 30 picomolar (pM). More preferably, the antibody binds with a K d of less than 20 pM. Even more preferably, the antibody binds with a K d of less than 10 or 5 pM.
  • a fully human antibody that binds to Angiopoietin-2 and prevents Angiopoietin-2 binding to Tie-2.
  • Yet another embodiment of the invention is a fully human monoclonal antibody that binds to Angiopoietin-2 and inhibits Angiopoietin-2 induced Tie-2 phosphorylation.
  • the antibody binds Angiopoietin-2 with a K d of less than 1 nanomolar (nM). More preferably, the antibody binds with a Kd less than 500 picomolar (pM). More preferably, the antibody binds with a Kd less than 100 picomolar (pM).
  • the antibody binds with a Kd less than 30 picomolar (pM). More preferably, the antibody binds with a K d of less than 20 pM. Even more preferably, the antibody binds with a K d of less than 10 or 5 pM.
  • a hybridoma that produces the light chain and/or the heavy chain of antibody as described hereinabove.
  • the hybridoma produces the light chain and/or the heavy chain of a fully human monoclonal antibody. More preferably the hybridoma produces the light chain and/or the heavy chain of the fully human monoclonal antibody 3.19.3, 3.3.2 or 5.88.3.
  • the hybridoma produces an antibody which binds to the same epitope or epitopes as fully human monoclonal antibody 3.19.3, 3.3.2 or 5.88.3.
  • nucleic acid molecule encoding the light chain or the heavy chain of the antibody as described hereinabove.
  • a nucleic acid molecule encoding the light chain or the heavy chain of a fully human monoclonal antibody More preferably there is provided a nucleic acid molecule encoding the light chain or the heavy chain of the fully human monoclonal antibody 3.19.3.
  • a vector comprising a nucleic acid molecule or molecules as described hereinabove, wherein the vector encodes a light chain and/or a heavy chain of an antibody as defined hereinabove.
  • a host cell comprising a vector as described hereinabove.
  • the host cell may comprise more than one vector.
  • one embodiment of the invention is a method of producing an antibody by culturing host cells under conditions wherein a nucleic acid molecule is expressed to produce the antibody, followed by recovery of the antibody.
  • an antibody comprising transfecting at least one host cell with at least one nucleic acid molecule encoding the antibody as described hereinabove, expressing the nucleic acid molecule in said host cell and isolating said antibody.
  • a method of antagonising the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2 comprising administering an antagonist as described hereinabove.
  • the method may include selecting an animal in need of treatment for disease-related angiogenesis, and administering to said animal a therapeutically effective dose of an antagonist of the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2.
  • a method of antagonising the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2 comprising administering an antibody as described hereinabove.
  • the method may include selecting an animal in need of treatment for disease-related angiogenesis, and administering to said animal a therapeutically effective dose of an antibody which antagonises the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2.
  • a method of treating disease-related angiogenesis in a mammal comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of an antagonist of the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2.
  • the method may include selecting an animal in need of treatment for disease-related angiogenesis, and administering to said animal a therapeutically effective dose of an antagonist of the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2.
  • a method of treating disease-related angiogenesis in a mammal comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of an antibody which antagonizes the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2.
  • the method may include selecting an animal in need of treatment for disease-related angiogenesis, and administering to said animal a therapeutically effective dose of an antibody which antagonises the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2.
  • the antibody can be administered alone, or can be administered in combination with additional antibodies or chemotherapeutic drug or radiation therapy.
  • a method of treating cancer in a mammal comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of an antagonist of the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2.
  • the method may include selecting an animal in need of treatment for cancer, and administering to said animal a therapeutically effective dose of an antagonist which antagonises the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2.
  • the antagonist can be administered alone, or can be administered in combination with additional antibodies or chemotherapeutic drug or radiation therapy.
  • a method of treating cancer in a mammal comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of an antibody which antagonizes the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2.
  • the method may include selecting an animal in need of treatment for cancer, and administering to said animal a therapeutically effective dose of an antibody which antagonises the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2.
  • the antibody can be administered alone, or can be administered in combination with additional antibodies or chemotherapeutic drug or radiation therapy.
  • an antagonist of the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2 for the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment of disease-related angiogenesis.
  • an antibody which antagonizes the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2 for the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment of disease-related angiogenesis.
  • the present invention is particularly suitable for use in antagonizing Angiopoietin-1 or Angiopoietin-2, in patients with a tumour which is dependent alone, or in part, on a Tie-2 receptor.
  • kits for detecting Angiopoietin-1 and/or Angiopoietin-2 in mammalian tissues, cells, or body fluids to screen for angiogenesis-related diseases includes an antibody that binds to Angiopoietin-1 and/or Angiopoietin-1 and a means for indicating the reaction of the antibody with Angiopoietin-1 and/or Angiopoietin-2, if present.
  • the antibody may be a monoclonal antibody.
  • the antibody that binds Angiopoietin-2 is labeled.
  • the antibody is an unlabeled primary antibody and the kit further includes a means for detecting the primary antibody.
  • the means includes a labeled second antibody that is an anti-immunoglobulin.
  • the antibody is labeled with a marker selected from the group consisting of a fluorochrome, an enzyme, a radionuclide and a radio-opaque material.
  • Embodiments of the invention include the specific anti-Ang-2 antibodies listed below in Table 1. This table reports the identification number of each anti-Ang-2 antibody, along with the SEQ ID number of the corresponding heavy chain and light chain genes.
  • Each antibody has been given an identification number that includes either two or three numbers separated by one or two decimal points. For most of the antibodies, only two identification numbers, separated by one decimal point, are listed.
  • nucleic acid and amino acid sequences of antibody 5.35 are identical to the sequences of antibody 5.35.1, 5.35.2, and 5.35.3.
  • Standard techniques are used for recombinant DNA, oligonucleotide synthesis, and tissue culture and transformation (e.g., electroporation, lipofection). Enzymatic reactions and purification techniques are performed according to manufacturer's specifications or as commonly accomplished in the art or as described herein. The foregoing techniques and procedures are generally performed according to conventional methods well known in the art and as described in various general and more specific references that are cited and discussed throughout the present specification. See e.g., Sambrook et al. Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual (3rd ed., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. (2001)), which is incorporated herein by reference.
  • An antagonist may be a polypeptide, nucleic acid, carbohydrate, lipid, small molecular weight compound, an oligonucleotide, an oligopeptide, RNA interference (RNAi), antisense, a recombinant protein, an antibody, or conjugates or fusion proteins thereof.
  • RNAi RNA interference
  • antisense see Opalinska J B, Gewirtz A M. (Sci STKE. 2003 Oct. 28; 2003(206):pe47.)
  • Disease-related angiogenesis may be any abnormal, undesirable or pathological angiogenesis, for example tumor-related angiogenesis.
  • Angiogenesis-related diseases include, but are not limited to, non-solid tumors such as leukaemia, multiple myeloma or lymphoma, and also solid tumors such as melanoma, small cell lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, glioma, hepatocellular (liver) carcinoma, glioblastoma, carcinoma of the thyroid, bile duct, bone, gastric, brain/CNS, head and neck, hepatic, stomach, prostate, breast, renal, testicular, ovarian, skin, cervical, lung, muscle, neuronal, oesophageal, bladder, lung, uterine, vulval, endometrial, kidney, colorectal, pancreatic, pleural/peritoneal membranes, salivary gland, and epidermoid tumors.
  • a compound refers to any small molecular weight compound with a molecular weight of less than about 2000 Daltons.
  • Ang-2 refers to the molecule Angiopoietin-2.
  • neutralizing when referring to an antibody relates to the ability of an antibody to eliminate, or significantly reduce, the activity of a target antigen. Accordingly, a “neutralizing” anti-Ang-2 antibody is capable of eliminating or significantly reducing the activity of Ang-2.
  • a neutralizing Ang-2 antibody may, for example, act by blocking the binding of Ang-2 to its receptor Tie2. By blocking this binding, the Tie2 mediated signal transduction is significantly, or completely, eliminated. Ideally, a neutralizing antibody against Ang-2 inhibits angiogenesis.
  • isolated polynucleotide shall mean a polynucleotide that has been isolated from its naturally occurring environment. Such polynucleotides may be genomic, cDNA, or synthetic. Isolated polynucleotides preferably are not associated with all or a portion of the polynucleotides they associate with in nature. The isolated polynucleotides may be operably linked to another polynucleotide that it is not linked to in nature. In addition, isolated polynucleotides preferably do not occur in nature as part of a larger sequence.
  • isolated protein means a protein that has been isolated from its naturally occurring environment. Such proteins may be derived from genomic DNA, cDNA, recombinant DNA, recombinant RNA, or synthetic origin or some combination thereof, which by virtue of its origin, or source of derivation, the “isolated protein” (1) is not associated with proteins found in nature, (2) is free of other proteins from the same source, e.g. free of murine proteins, (3) is expressed by a cell from a different species, or (4) does not occur in nature.
  • polypeptide is used herein as a generic term to refer to native protein, fragments, or analogs of a polypeptide sequence. Hence, native protein, fragments, and analogs are species of the polypeptide genus.
  • Preferred polypeptides in accordance with the invention comprise the human heavy chain immunoglobulin molecules and the human kappa light chain immunoglobulin molecules, as well as antibody molecules formed by combinations comprising the heavy chain immunoglobulin molecules with light chain immunoglobulin molecules, such as the kappa or lambda light chain immunoglobulin molecules, and vice versa, as well as fragments and analogs thereof.
  • Preferred polypeptides in accordance with the invention may also comprise solely the human heavy chain immunoglobulin molecules or fragments thereof.
  • naturally-occurring refers to the fact that an object can be found in nature.
  • a polypeptide or polynucleotide sequence that is present in an organism (including viruses) that can be isolated from a source in nature and which has not been intentionally modified by man in the laboratory or otherwise is naturally-occurring.
  • operably linked refers to positions of components so described that are in a relationship permitting them to function in their intended manner.
  • a control sequence “operably linked” to a coding sequence is connected in such a way that expression of the coding sequence is achieved under conditions compatible with the control sequences.
  • control sequence refers to polynucleotide sequences that are necessary either to effect or to affect the expression and processing of coding sequences to which they are connected. The nature of such control sequences differs depending upon the host organism; in prokaryotes, such control sequences generally include promoter, ribosomal binding site, and transcription termination sequence; in eukaryotes, generally, such control sequences may include promoters, enhancers, introns, transcription termination sequences, polyadenylation signal sequences, and 5′ and ′3 untranslated regions.
  • control sequences is intended to include, at a minimum, all components whose presence is essential for expression and processing, and can also include additional components whose presence is advantageous, for example, leader sequences and fusion partner sequences.
  • polynucleotide as referred to herein means a polymeric form of nucleotides of at least 10 bases in length, either ribonucleotides or deoxynucleotides or a modified form of either type of nucleotide, or RNA-DNA hetero-duplexes.
  • the term includes single and double stranded forms of DNA.
  • oligonucleotide includes naturally occurring, and modified nucleotides linked together by naturally occurring, and non-naturally occurring linkages.
  • Oligonucleotides are a polynucleotide subset generally comprising a length of 200 bases or fewer.
  • oligonucleotides are 10 to 60 bases in length and most preferably 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, or 20 to 40 bases in length.
  • Oligonucleotides are usually single stranded, e.g. for probes; although oligonucleotides may be double stranded, e.g. for use in the construction of a gene mutant.
  • Oligonucleotides can be either sense or antisense oligonucleotides.
  • nucleotides includes deoxyribonucleotides and ribonucleotides.
  • modified nucleotides referred to herein includes nucleotides with modified or substituted sugar groups and the like.
  • oligonucleotide linkages includes oligonucleotides linkages such as phosphorothioate, phosphorodithioate, phosphoroselenoate, phosphorodiselenoate, phosphoroanilothioate, phosphoraniladate, phosphoroamidate, and the like. See e.g., LaPlanche et al. Nucl. Acids Res.
  • oligonucleotide can include a label for detection, if desired.
  • the term “selectively hybridize” referred to herein means to detectably and specifically bind.
  • Polynucleotides, oligonucleotides and fragments thereof selectively hybridize to nucleic acid strands under hybridization and wash conditions that minimize appreciable amounts of detectable binding to nonspecific nucleic acids.
  • High stringency conditions can be used to achieve selective hybridization conditions as known in the art and discussed herein.
  • the nucleic acid sequence homology between the polynucleotides, oligonucleotides, or antibody fragments and a nucleic acid sequence of interest will be at least 80%, and more typically with preferably increasing homologies of at least 85%, 90%, 95%, 99%, and 100%.
  • Two amino acid sequences are “homologous” if there is a partial or complete identity between their sequences. For example, 85% homology means that 85% of the amino acids are identical when the two sequences are aligned for maximum matching. Gaps (in either of the two sequences being matched) are allowed in maximizing matching; gap lengths of 5 or less are preferred with 2 or less being more preferred. Alternatively and preferably, two protein sequences (or polypeptide sequences derived from them of at least about 30 amino acids in length) are homologous, as this term is used herein, if they have an alignment score of at more than 5 (in standard deviation units) using the program ALIGN with the mutation data matrix and a gap penalty of 6 or greater. See Dayhoff, M.
  • the two sequences or parts thereof are more preferably homologous if their amino acids are greater than or equal to 50% identical when optimally aligned using the ALIGN program. It should be appreciated that there can be differing regions of homology within two orthologous sequences. For example, the functional sites of mouse and human orthologues may have a higher degree of homology than non-functional regions.
  • polynucleotide sequence is homologous (i.e., is identical, not strictly evolutionarily related) to all or a portion of a reference polynucleotide sequence, or that a polypeptide sequence is identical to a reference polypeptide sequence.
  • the term “complementary to” is used herein to mean that the complementary sequence is homologous to all or a portion of a reference polynucleotide sequence.
  • the nucleotide sequence “TATAC” corresponds to a reference sequence “TATAC” and is complementary to a reference sequence “GTATA”.
  • a “reference sequence” is a defined sequence used as a basis for a sequence comparison.
  • a reference sequence may be a subset of a larger sequence, for example, as a segment of a full-length cDNA or gene sequence given in a sequence listing or may comprise a complete cDNA or gene sequence.
  • a reference sequence is at least 18 nucleotides or 6 amino acids in length, frequently at least 24 nucleotides or 8 amino acids in length, and often at least 48 nucleotides or 16 amino acids in length.
  • two polynucleotides or amino acid sequences may each (1) comprise a sequence (i.e., a portion of the complete polynucleotide or amino acid sequence) that is similar between the two molecules, and (2) may further comprise a sequence that is divergent between the two polynucleotides or amino acid sequences
  • sequence comparisons between two (or more) molecules are typically performed by comparing sequences of the two molecules over a “comparison window” to identify and compare local regions of sequence similarity.
  • a “comparison window”, as used herein, refers to a conceptual segment of at least about 18 contiguous nucleotide positions or about 6 amino acids wherein the polynucleotide sequence or amino acid sequence is compared to a reference sequence of at least 18 contiguous nucleotides or 6 amino acid sequences and wherein the portion of the polynucleotide sequence in the comparison window may include additions, deletions, substitutions, and the like (i.e., gaps) of 20 percent or less as compared to the reference sequence (which does not comprise additions or deletions) for optimal alignment of the two sequences.
  • Optimal alignment of sequences for aligning a comparison window may be conducted by the local homology algorithm of Smith and Waterman Adv. Appl. Math.
  • sequence identity means that two polynucleotide or amino acid sequences are identical (i.e., on a nucleotide-by-nucleotide or residue-by-residue basis) over the comparison window.
  • percentage of sequence identity is calculated by comparing two optimally aligned sequences over the window of comparison, determining the number of positions at which the identical nucleic acid base (e.g., A, T, C, G, U, or I) or amino acid residue occurs in both sequences to yield the number of matched positions, dividing the number of matched positions by the total number of positions in the comparison window (i.e., the window size), and multiplying the result by 100 to yield the percentage of sequence identity.
  • substantially identical denotes a characteristic of a polynucleotide or amino acid sequence, wherein the polynucleotide or amino acid comprises a sequence that has at least 85 percent sequence identity, preferably at least 90 to 95 percent sequence identity, more preferably at least 99 percent sequence identity, as compared to a reference sequence over a comparison window of at least 18 nucleotide (6 amino acid) positions, frequently over a window of at least 24-48 nucleotide (8-16 amino acid) positions, wherein the percentage of sequence identity is calculated by comparing the reference sequence to the sequence which may include deletions or additions which total 20 percent or less of the reference sequence over the comparison window.
  • the reference sequence may be a subset of a larger sequence.
  • Examples of unconventional amino acids include: 4-hydroxyproline, ⁇ -carboxyglutamate, ⁇ -N,N,N-trimethyllysine, ⁇ -N-acetyllysine, O-phosphoserine, N-acetylserine, N-formylmethionine, 3-methylhistidine, 5-hydroxylysine, ⁇ -N-methylarginine, and other similar amino acids and imino acids (e.g., 4-hydroxyproline).
  • the left-hand direction is the amino terminal direction and the right-hand direction is the carboxy-terminal direction, in accordance with standard usage and convention.
  • the left-hand end of single-stranded polynucleotide sequences is the 5′ end; the left-hand direction of double-stranded polynucleotide sequences is referred to as the 5′ direction.
  • the direction of 5′ to 3′ addition of nascent RNA transcripts is referred to as the transcription direction; sequence regions on the DNA strand having the same sequence as the RNA and which are 5′ to the 5′ end of the RNA transcript are referred to as “upstream sequences”; sequence regions on the DNA strand having the same sequence as the RNA and which are 3′ to the 3′ end of the RNA transcript are referred to as “downstream sequences”.
  • the term “substantial identity” means that two peptide sequences, when optimally aligned, such as by the programs GAP or BESTFIT using default gap weights, share at least 80 percent sequence identity, preferably at least 90 percent sequence identity, more preferably at least 95 percent sequence identity, and most preferably at least 99 percent sequence identity.
  • residue positions that are not identical differ by conservative amino acid substitutions.
  • Conservative amino acid substitutions refer to the interchangeability of residues having similar side chains.
  • a group of amino acids having aliphatic side chains is glycine, alanine, valine, leucine, and isoleucine; a group of amino acids having aliphatic-hydroxyl side chains is serine and threonine; a group of amino acids having amide-containing side chains is asparagine and glutamine; a group of amino acids having aromatic side chains is phenylalanine, tyrosine, and tryptophan; a group of amino acids having basic side chains is lysine, arginine, and histidine; and a group of amino acids having sulfur-containing side chains is cysteine and methionine.
  • Preferred conservative amino acids substitution groups are: valine-leucine-isoleucine, phenylalanine-tyrosine, lysine-arginine, alanine-valine, glutamic-aspartic, and asparagine-glutamine.
  • amino acid sequences of antibodies or immunoglobulin molecules are contemplated as being encompassed by the present invention, providing that the variations in the amino acid sequence maintain at least 75%, more preferably at least 80%, 90%, 95%, and most preferably 99% sequence identity to the antibodies or immunoglobulin molecules described herein.
  • conservative amino acid replacements are contemplated. Conservative replacements are those that take place within a family of amino acids that have related side chains.
  • More preferred families are: serine and threonine are an aliphatic-hydroxy family; asparagine and glutamine are an amide-containing family; alanine, valine, leucine and isoleucine are an aliphatic family; and phenylalanine, tryptophan, and tyrosine are an aromatic family.
  • Structural and functional domains can be identified by comparison of the nucleotide and/or amino acid sequence data to public or proprietary sequence databases.
  • computerized comparison methods are used to identify sequence motifs or predicted protein conformation domains that occur in other proteins of known structure and/or function. Methods to identify protein sequences that fold into a known three-dimensional structure are known. Bowie et al. Science 253:164 (1991).
  • sequence motifs and structural conformations that may be used to define structural and functional domains in accordance with the antibodies described herein.
  • Preferred amino acid substitutions are those which: (1) reduce susceptibility to proteolysis, (2) reduce susceptibility to oxidation, (3) alter binding affinity for forming protein complexes, (4) alter binding affinities, and (4) confer or modify other physicochemical or functional properties of such analogs.
  • Analogs can include various muteins of a sequence other than the naturally-occurring peptide sequence. For example, single or multiple amino acid substitutions (preferably conservative amino acid substitutions) may be made in the naturally-occurring sequence (preferably in the portion of the polypeptide outside the domain(s) forming intermolecular contacts.
  • a conservative amino acid substitution should not substantially change the structural characteristics of the parent sequence (e.g., a replacement amino acid should not tend to break a helix that occurs in the parent sequence, or disrupt other types of secondary structure that characterizes the parent sequence).
  • Examples of art-recognized polypeptide secondary and tertiary structures are described in Proteins, Structures and Molecular Principles (Creighton, Ed., W. H. Freeman and Company, New York (1984)); Introduction to Protein Structure (C. Branden and J. Tooze, eds., Garland Publishing, New York, N.Y. (1991)); and Thornton et al. Nature 354:105 (1991), which are each incorporated herein by reference.
  • polypeptide fragment refers to a polypeptide that has an amino-terminal and/or carboxy-terminal deletion, but where the remaining amino acid sequence is identical to the corresponding positions in the naturally-occurring sequence deduced, for example, from a full-length cDNA sequence. Fragments typically are at least 5, 6, 8 or 10 amino acids long, preferably at least 14 amino acids long, more preferably at least 20 amino acids long, usually at least 50 amino acids long, and even more preferably at least 70 amino acids long.
  • analog refers to polypeptides which are comprised of a segment of at least 25 amino acids that has substantial identity to a portion of a deduced amino acid sequence and which has at least one of the following properties: (1) specific binding to a Ang-2, under suitable binding conditions, (2) ability to block appropriate Ang-2 binding, or (3) ability to inhibit Ang-2 activity.
  • polypeptide analogs comprise a conservative amino acid substitution (or addition or deletion) with respect to the naturally-occurring sequence.
  • Analogs typically are at least 20 amino acids long, preferably at least 50 amino acids long or longer, and can often be as long as a full-length naturally-occurring polypeptide.
  • Peptide analogs are commonly used in the pharmaceutical industry as non-peptide drugs with properties analogous to those of the template peptide. These types of non-peptide compound are termed “peptide mimetics” or “peptidomimetics”. Fauchere, J. Adv. Drug Res. 15:29 (1986); Veber and Freidinger TINS p. 392 (1985); and Evans et al. J. Med. Chem. 30:1229 (1987), which are incorporated herein by reference. Such compounds are often developed with the aid of computerized molecular modeling. Peptide mimetics that are structurally similar to therapeutically useful peptides may be used to produce an equivalent therapeutic or prophylactic effect.
  • peptidomimetics are structurally similar to a paradigm polypeptide (i.e., a polypeptide that has a biochemical property or pharmacological activity), such as human antibody, but have one or more peptide linkages optionally replaced by a linkage selected from the group consisting of: —CH 2 NH—, —CH 2 S—, —CH 2 —CH 2 —, —CH ⁇ CH—(cis and trans), —COCH 2 —, —CH(OH)CH 2 —, and —CH 2 SO—, by methods well known in the art.
  • a paradigm polypeptide i.e., a polypeptide that has a biochemical property or pharmacological activity
  • linkages optionally replaced by a linkage selected from the group consisting of: —CH 2 NH—, —CH 2 S—, —CH 2 —CH 2 —, —CH ⁇ CH—(cis and trans), —COCH 2 —, —CH(OH)CH 2 —
  • Systematic substitution of one or more amino acids of a consensus sequence with a D-amino acid of the same type may be used to generate more stable peptides.
  • constrained peptides comprising a consensus sequence or a substantially identical consensus sequence variation may be generated by methods known in the art (Rizo and Gierasch Ann. Rev. Biochem. 61:387 (1992), incorporated herein by reference); for example, by adding internal cysteine residues capable of forming intramolecular disulfide bridges which cyclize the peptide.
  • antibody refers to a polypeptide or group of polypeptides that are comprised of at least one binding domain that is formed from the folding of polypeptide chains having three-dimensional binding spaces with internal surface shapes and charge distributions complementary to the features of an antigenic determinant of an antigen.
  • An antibody typically has a tetrameric form, comprising two identical pairs of polypeptide chains, each pair having one “light” and one “heavy” chain. The variable regions of each light/heavy chain pair form an antibody binding site.
  • a “targeted binding agent” is an antibody, or binding fragment thereof, that preferentially binds to a target site.
  • the targeted binding agent is specific for only one target site. In other embodiments, the targeted binding agent is specific for more than one target site.
  • the targeted binding agent may be a monoclonal antibody and the target site may be an epitope.
  • Binding fragments of an antibody are produced by recombinant DNA techniques, or by enzymatic or chemical cleavage of intact antibodies. Binding fragments include Fab, Fab′, F(ab′) 2 , Fv, and single-chain antibodies. An antibody other than a “bispecific” or “bifunctional” antibody is understood to have each of its binding sites identical. An antibody substantially inhibits adhesion of a receptor to a counter-receptor when an excess of antibody reduces the quantity of receptor bound to counter-receptor by at least about 20%, 40%, 60% or 80%, and more usually greater than about 85% (as measured in an in vitro competitive binding assay).
  • An antibody may be oligoclonal, a polyclonal antibody, a monoclonal antibody, a chimeric antibody, a CDR-grafted antibody, a multi-specific antibody, a bi-specific antibody, a catalytic antibody, a chimeric antibody, a humanized antibody, a fully human antibody, an anti-idiotypic antibody and antibodies that can be labeled in soluble or bound form as well as fragments, variants or derivatives thereof, either alone or in combination with other amino acid sequences provided by known techniques.
  • An antibody may be from any species.
  • the term antibody also includes binding fragments of the antibodies of the invention; exemplary fragments include Fv, Fab, Fab′, single stranded antibody (svFC), dimeric variable region (Diabody) and disulphide stabilized variable region (dsFv).
  • epitopic determinants includes any protein determinant capable of specific binding to an immunoglobulin or T-cell receptor.
  • Epitopic determinants usually consist of chemically active surface groupings of molecules such as amino acids or sugar side chains and may, but not always, have specific three-dimensional structural characteristics, as well as specific charge characteristics.
  • An antibody is said to specifically bind an antigen when the dissociation constant is ⁇ 1 ⁇ M, preferably ⁇ 100 nM and most preferably ⁇ 10 nM.
  • agent is used herein to denote a chemical compound, a mixture of chemical compounds, a biological macromolecule, or an extract made from biological materials.
  • Ang-2 polypeptide refers to a portion of an Ang-2 polypeptide that has a biological or an immunological activity of a native Ang-2 polypeptide.
  • Biological when used herein refers to a biological function that results from the activity of the native Ang-2 polypeptide.
  • a preferred Ang-2 biological activity includes, for example, Ang-2 induced angiogenesis.
  • mammal when used herein refers to any animal that is considered a mammal. Preferably, the mammal is human.
  • Digestion of antibodies with the enzyme, papain results in two identical antigen-binding fragments, known also as “Fab” fragments, and a “Fc” fragment, having no antigen-binding activity but having the ability to crystallize.
  • Digestion of antibodies with the enzyme, pepsin results in the a F(ab′) 2 fragment in which the two arms of the antibody molecule remain linked and comprise two-antigen binding sites.
  • the F(ab′) 2 fragment has the ability to crosslink antigen.
  • Fv when used herein refers to the minimum fragment of an antibody that retains both antigen-recognition and antigen-binding sites.
  • Fab when used herein refers to a fragment of an antibody that comprises the constant domain of the light chain and the CH1 domain of the heavy chain.
  • mAb refers to monoclonal antibody.
  • “Liposome” when used herein refers to a small vesicle that may be useful for delivery of drugs that may include the Ang-2 polypeptide of the invention or antibodies to such an Ang-2 polypeptide to a mammal.
  • Label or “labeled” as used herein refers to the addition of a detectable moiety to a polypeptide, for example, a radiolabel, fluorescent label, enzymatic label chemiluminescent labeled or a biotinyl group.
  • Radioisotopes or radionuclides may include 3 H, 14 C, 15 N, 35 S, 90 Y, 99 Tc, 11 In, 111 In, 131 I
  • fluorescent labels may include rhodamine, lanthanide phosphors or FITC and enzymatic labels may include horseradish peroxidase, ⁇ -galactosidase, luciferase, alkaline phosphatase.
  • pharmaceutical agent or drug refers to a chemical compound or composition capable of inducing a desired therapeutic effect when properly administered to a patient.
  • Other chemistry terms herein are used according to conventional usage in the art, as exemplified by The McGraw - Hill Dictionary of Chemical Terms (Parker, S., Ed., McGraw-Hill, San Francisco (1985)), (incorporated herein by reference).
  • substantially pure means an object species is the predominant species present (i.e., on a molar basis it is more abundant than any other individual species in the composition), and preferably a substantially purified fraction is a composition wherein the object species comprises at least about 50 percent (on a molar basis) of all macromolecular species present. Generally, a substantially pure composition will comprise more than about 80 percent of all macromolecular species present in the composition, more preferably more than about 85%, 90%, 95%, and 99%. Most preferably, the object species is purified to essential homogeneity (contaminant species cannot be detected in the composition by conventional detection methods) wherein the composition consists essentially of a single macromolecular species.
  • patient includes human and veterinary subjects.
  • Human antibodies avoid some of the problems associated with antibodies that possess murine or rat variable and/or constant regions.
  • the presence of such murine or rat derived proteins can lead to the rapid clearance of the antibodies or can lead to the generation of an immune response against the antibody by a patient.
  • fully human antibodies can be generated through the introduction of functional human antibody loci into a rodent, other mammal or animal so that the rodent, other mammal or animal produces fully human antibodies.
  • XenoMouse® strains of mice that have been engineered to contain up to but less than 1000 kb-sized germline configured fragments of the human heavy chain locus and kappa light chain locus. See Mendez et al. Nature Genetics 15:146-156 (1997) and Green and Jakobovits J. Exp. Med. 188:483-495 (1998).
  • the XenoMouse® strains are available from Abgenix, Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).
  • minilocus In an alternative approach, others, including GenPharm International, Inc., have utilized a “minilocus” approach. In the minilocus approach, an exogenous Ig locus is mimicked through the inclusion of pieces (individual genes) from the Ig locus. Thus, one or more V H genes, one or more D H genes, one or more J H genes, a mu constant region, and usually a second constant region (preferably a gamma constant region) are formed into a construct for insertion into an animal. This approach is described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,545,807 to Surani et al. and U.S. Pat. Nos.
  • Kirin has also demonstrated the generation of human antibodies from mice in which, through microcell fusion, large pieces of chromosomes, or entire chromosomes, have been introduced. See European Patent Application Nos. 773 288 and 843 961, the disclosures of which are hereby incorporated by reference. Additionally, KMTM-mice, which are the result of cross-breeding of Kirin's Tc mice with Medarex's minilocus (Humab) mice have been generated. These mice possess the human IgH transchromosome of the Kirin mice and the kappa chain transgene of the Genpharm mice (Ishida et al., Cloning Stem Cells, (2002) 4:91-102).
  • Human antibodies can also be derived by in vitro methods. Suitable examples include but are not limited to phage display (CAT, Morphosys, Dyax, Biosite/Medarex, Xoma, Symphogen, Alexion (formerly Proliferon), Affimed) ribosome display (CAT), yeast display, and the like.
  • mice were prepared through the utilization of the XenoMouse® technology, as described below. Such mice, then, are capable of producing human immunoglobulin molecules and antibodies and are deficient in the production of murine immunoglobulin molecules and antibodies. Technologies utilized for achieving the same are disclosed in the patents, applications, and references disclosed in the background section herein. In particular, however, a preferred embodiment of transgenic production of mice and antibodies therefrom is disclosed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/759,620, filed Dec. 3, 1996 and International Patent Application Nos. WO 98/24893, published Jun. 11, 1998 and WO 00/76310, published Dec. 21, 2000, the disclosures of which are hereby incorporated by reference. See also Mendez et al. Nature Genetics 15:146-156 (1997), the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference.
  • XenoMouse® lines of mice are immunized with an antigen of interest (e.g. Ang-2), lymphatic cells (such as B-cells) are recovered from the hyper-immunized mice, and the recovered lymphocytes are fused with a myeloid-type cell line to prepare immortal hybridoma cell lines.
  • lymphatic cells such as B-cells
  • myeloid-type cell line to prepare immortal hybridoma cell lines.
  • These hybridoma cell lines are screened and selected to identify hybridoma cell lines that produced antibodies specific to the antigen of interest.
  • Provided herein are methods for the production of multiple hybridoma cell lines that produce antibodies specific to Ang-1 and Ang-2. Further, provided herein are characterization of the antibodies produced by such cell lines, including nucleotide and amino acid sequence analyses of the heavy and light chains of such antibodies.
  • B cells can be directly assayed.
  • CD19+ B cells can be isolated from hyperimmune XenoMouse® mice and allowed to proliferate and differentiate into antibody-secreting plasma cells.
  • Antibodies from the cell supernatants are then screened by ELISA for reactivity against the Ang-2 immunogen.
  • the supernatants might also be screened for immunoreactivity against fragments of Ang-2 to further map the different antibodies for binding to domains of functional interest on Ang-2.
  • the antibodies may also be screened against Ang-1, Ang-3 or Ang-4, other related human chemokines and against the rat, the mouse, and non-human primate, such as Cynomolgus monkey, orthologues of Ang-2, the last to determine species cross-reactivity.
  • B cells from wells containing antibodies of interest may be immortalized by various methods including fusion to make hybridomas either from individual or from pooled wells, or by infection with EBV or transfection by known immortalizing genes and then plating in suitable medium.
  • single plasma cells secreting antibodies with the desired specificities are then isolated using an Ang-1 or Ang-2-specific hemolytic plaque assay (see for example Babcook et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.
  • Cells targeted for lysis are preferably sheep red blood cells (SRBCs) coated with the Ang-2 antigen.
  • SRBCs sheep red blood cells coated with the Ang-2 antigen.
  • a plaque In the presence of a B-cell culture containing plasma cells secreting the immunoglobulin of interest and complement, the formation of a plaque indicates specific Ang-1/Ang-2-mediated lysis of the sheep red blood cells surrounding the plasma cell of interest.
  • the single antigen-specific plasma cell in the center of the plaque can be isolated and the genetic information that encodes the specificity of the antibody is isolated from the single plasma cell.
  • RT-PCR reverse-transcription followed by PCR
  • Such cloned DNA can then be further inserted into a suitable expression vector, preferably a vector cassette such as a pcDNA, more preferably such a pcDNA vector containing the constant domains of immunoglobulin heavy and light chain.
  • a suitable expression vector preferably a vector cassette such as a pcDNA, more preferably such a pcDNA vector containing the constant domains of immunoglobulin heavy and light chain.
  • the generated vector can then be transfected into host cells, e.g., HEK293 cells, CHO cells, and cultured in conventional nutrient media modified as appropriate for inducing transcription, selecting transformants, or amplifying the genes encoding the desired sequences.
  • antibodies produced by the fused hybridomas were human IgG2 heavy chains with fully human kappa or lambda light chains.
  • Antibodies described herein possess human IgG4 heavy chains as well as IgG2 heavy chains.
  • Antibodies can also be of other human isotypes, including IgG1.
  • the antibodies possessed high affinities, typically possessing a Kd of from about 10 ⁇ 6 through about 10 ⁇ 12 M or below, when measured by solid phase and solution phase techniques.
  • Antibodies possessing a KD of at least 10 ⁇ 11 M are preferred to inhibit the activity of Ang-1 and/or Ang-2.
  • antibodies can be expressed in cell lines other than hybridoma cell lines. Sequences encoding particular antibodies can be used to transform a suitable mammalian host cell. Transformation can be by any known method for introducing polynucleotides into a host cell, including, for example packaging the polynucleotide in a virus (or into a viral vector) and transducing a host cell with the virus (or vector) or by transfection procedures known in the art, as exemplified by U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,399,216, 4,912,040, 4,740,461, and 4,959,455 (which patents are hereby incorporated herein by reference). The transformation procedure used depends upon the host to be transformed.
  • Methods for introducing heterologous polynucleotides into mammalian cells include dextran-mediated transfection, calcium phosphate precipitation, polybrene mediated transfection, protoplast fusion, electroporation, encapsulation of the polynucleotide(s) in liposomes, and direct microinjection of the DNA into nuclei.
  • Mammalian cell lines available as hosts for expression are well known in the art and include many immortalized cell lines available from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), including but not limited to Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, HeLa cells, baby hamster kidney (BHK) cells, monkey kidney cells (COS), human hepatocellular carcinoma cells (e.g., Hep G2), human epithelial kidney 293 cells, and a number of other cell lines. Cell lines of particular preference are selected through determining which cell lines have high expression levels and produce antibodies with constitutive Ang-2 binding properties.
  • ATCC American Type Culture Collection
  • antibodies and methods herein relate to the treatment of symptoms resulting from Angiopoietin-1 and/or Angiopoietin-2 induced angiogenesis.
  • a pharmaceutical composition comprising an antagonist of the biological activity of Angiopoietin-1 and Angiopoietin-2, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
  • the antagonist comprises an antibody.
  • a pharmaceutical composition comprising an antagonist of the biological activity of Angiopoietin-2, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
  • the antagonist comprises an antibody.
  • Anti-Ang-2 antibodies are useful in the detection of Ang-2 in patient samples and accordingly are useful as diagnostics for disease states as described herein. In addition, based on their ability to significantly neutralize Ang-2 activity (as demonstrated in the Examples below), anti-Ang-2 antibodies have therapeutic effects in treating symptoms and conditions resulting from Ang-2 expression. In specific embodiments, the antibodies and methods herein relate to the treatment of symptoms resulting from Ang-2 induced angiogenesis.
  • angiogenesis-related diseases including neoplastic diseases, such as, melanoma, small cell lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, glioma, hepatocellular (liver) carcinoma, thyroid tumor, gastric (stomach) cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, bladder cancer, lung cancer, glioblastoma, endometrial cancer, kidney cancer, colon cancer, and pancreatic cancer.
  • neoplastic diseases such as, melanoma, small cell lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, glioma, hepatocellular (liver) carcinoma, thyroid tumor, gastric (stomach) cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, bladder cancer, lung cancer, glioblastoma, endometrial cancer, kidney cancer, colon cancer, and pancreatic cancer.
  • Embodiments of the invention include sterile pharmaceutical formulations of anti-Ang-2 antibodies or antibodies which bind to both Ang-1 and Ang-2 that are useful as treatments for diseases. Such formulations would inhibit the binding of Ang-2 or Ang-1 and Ang-2 to its receptor Tie2, thereby effectively treating pathological conditions where, for example, serum or tissue Ang-1 and/or Ang-2 is abnormally elevated.
  • Anti-Ang-2 antibodies preferably possess adequate affinity to potently neutralize Ang-2, and preferably have an adequate duration of action to allow for infrequent dosing in humans.
  • Anti-Ang-1/Ang-2 antibodies preferably possess adequate affinity to potently neutralize Ang-1 and Ang-2, and preferably have an adequate duration of action to allow for infrequent dosing in humans. A prolonged duration of action will allow for less frequent and more convenient dosing schedules by alternate parenteral routes such as subcutaneous or intramuscular injection.
  • Sterile formulations can be created, for example, by filtration through sterile filtration membranes, prior to or following lyophilization and reconstitution of the antibody.
  • the antibody ordinarily will be stored in lyophilized form or in solution.
  • Therapeutic antibody compositions generally are placed into a container having a sterile access port, for example, an intravenous solution bag or vial having an adapter that allows retrieval of the formulation, such as a stopper pierceable by a hypodermic injection needle.
  • the route of antibody administration is in accord with known methods, e.g., injection or infusion by intravenous, intraperitoneal, intracerebral, intramuscular, intraocular, intraarterial, intrathecal, inhalation or intralesional routes, or by sustained release systems as noted below.
  • the antibody is preferably administered continuously by infusion or by bolus injection.
  • an effective amount of antibody to be employed therapeutically will depend, for example, upon the therapeutic objectives, the route of administration, and the condition of the patient. Accordingly, it is preferred that the therapist titer the dosage and modify the route of administration as required to obtain the optimal therapeutic effect. Typically, the clinician will administer antibody until a dosage is reached that achieves the desired effect. The progress of this therapy is easily monitored by conventional assays or by the assays described herein.
  • Antibodies can be prepared in a mixture with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
  • This therapeutic composition can be administered intravenously or through the nose or lung, preferably as a liquid or powder aerosol (lyophilized).
  • the composition may also be administered parenterally or subcutaneously as desired.
  • the therapeutic composition should be sterile, pyrogen-free and in a parenterally acceptable solution having due regard for pH, isotonicity, and stability. These conditions are known to those skilled in the art.
  • dosage formulations of the compounds described herein are prepared for storage or administration by mixing the compound having the desired degree of purity with physiologically acceptable carriers, excipients, or stabilizers.
  • Such materials are non-toxic to the recipients at the dosages and concentrations employed, and include buffers such as TRIS HCl, phosphate, citrate, acetate and other organic acid salts; antioxidants such as ascorbic acid; low molecular weight (less than about ten residues) peptides such as polyarginine, proteins, such as serum albumin, gelatin, or immunoglobulins; hydrophilic polymers such as polyvinylpyrrolidinone; amino acids such as glycine, glutamic acid, aspartic acid, or arginine; monosaccharides, disaccharides, and other carbohydrates including cellulose or its derivatives, glucose, mannose, or dextrins; chelating agents such as EDTA; sugar alcohols such as mannitol or sorbitol; counterions such as sodium and/or nonionic surfactants such as TWEEN, PLURONICS or polyethyleneglycol.
  • buffers such as TRIS HCl, phosphate, citrate, a
  • Sterile compositions for injection can be formulated according to conventional pharmaceutical practice as described in Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy (20 th ed, Lippincott Williams & Wilkens Publishers (2003)). For example, dissolution or suspension of the active compound in a vehicle such as water or naturally occurring vegetable oil like sesame, peanut, or cottonseed oil or a synthetic fatty vehicle like ethyl oleate or the like may be desired. Buffers, preservatives, antioxidants and the like can be incorporated according to accepted pharmaceutical practice.
  • sustained-release preparations include semipermeable matrices of solid hydrophobic polymers containing the polypeptide, which matrices are in the form of shaped articles, films or microcapsules.
  • sustained-release matrices include polyesters, hydrogels (e.g., poly(2-hydroxyethyl-methacrylate) as described by Langer et al., J. Biomed Mater. Res ., (1981) 15:167-277 and Langer, Chem. Tech ., (1982) 12:98-105, or poly(vinylalcohol)), polylactides (U.S. Pat. No.
  • Sustained-released compositions also include preparations of crystals of the antibody suspended in suitable formulations capable of maintaining crystals in suspension. These preparations when injected subcutaneously or intraperitonealy can produce a sustained release effect.
  • Other compositions also include liposomally entrapped antibodies. Liposomes containing such antibodies are prepared by methods known per se: U.S. Pat. No. DE 3,218,121; Epstein et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA , (1985) 82:3688-3692; Hwang et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.
  • the dosage of the antibody formulation for a given patient will be determined by the attending physician taking into consideration various factors known to modify the action of drugs including severity and type of disease, body weight, sex, diet, time and route of administration, other medications and other relevant clinical factors.
  • Therapeutically effective dosages may be determined by either in vitro or in vivo methods.
  • an effective amount of the antibodies, described herein, to be employed therapeutically will depend, for example, upon the therapeutic objectives, the route of administration, and the condition of the patient. Accordingly, it is preferred for the therapist to titer the dosage and modify the route of administration as required to obtain the optimal therapeutic effect.
  • a typical daily dosage might range from about 0.001 mg/kg to up to 100 mg/kg or more, depending on the factors mentioned above.
  • the clinician will administer the therapeutic antibody until a dosage is reached that achieves the desired effect. The progress of this therapy is easily monitored by conventional assays or as described herein.
  • compositions and methods herein will be administered with suitable carriers, excipients, and other agents that are incorporated into formulations to provide improved transfer, delivery, tolerance, and the like.
  • suitable carriers, excipients, and other agents that are incorporated into formulations to provide improved transfer, delivery, tolerance, and the like.
  • formulations include, for example, powders, pastes, ointments, jellies, waxes, oils, lipids, lipid (cationic or anionic) containing vesicles (such as LipofectinTM), DNA conjugates, anhydrous absorption pastes, oil-in-water and water-in-oil emulsions, emulsions carbowax (polyethylene glycols of various molecular weights), semi-solid gels, and semi-solid mixtures containing carbowax.
  • any of the foregoing mixtures may be appropriate in treatments and therapies in accordance with the present invention, provided that the active ingredient in the formulation is not inactivated by the formulation and the formulation is physiologically compatible and tolerable with the route of administration.
  • the active ingredient in the formulation is not inactivated by the formulation and the formulation is physiologically compatible and tolerable with the route of administration.
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  • anti-angiogenic treatment may be applied as a sole therapy or may involve, in addition to the compounds of the invention, conventional surgery or radiotherapy or chemotherapy.
  • chemotherapy may include one or more of the following categories of anti tumor agents:
  • cytostatic agents such as antioestrogens (for example tamoxifen, toremifene, raloxifene, droloxifene and iodoxyfene), oestrogen receptor down regulators (for example fulvestrant), antiandrogens (for example bicalutamide, flutamide, nilutamide and cyproterone acetate), LHRH antagonists or LHRH agonists (for example goserelin, leuprorelin and buserelin), progestogens (for example megestrol acetate), aromatase inhibitors (for example as anastrozole, letrozole, vorazole and exemestane) and inhibitors of 5* reductase such as finasteride;
  • antioestrogens for example tamoxifen, toremifene, raloxifene, droloxifene and iodoxyfene
  • agents which inhibit cancer cell invasion for example metalloproteinase inhibitors like marimastat and inhibitors of urokinase plasminogen activator receptor function;
  • inhibitors of growth factor function include growth factor antibodies, growth factor receptor antibodies (for example the anti erbb2 antibody trastuzumab [HerceptinTM] and the anti erbb1 antibody cetuximab [C225]), farnesyl transferase inhibitors, tyrosine kinase inhibitors and serine/threonine kinase inhibitors, for example inhibitors of the epidermal growth factor family (for example EGFR family tyrosine kinase inhibitors such as N (3 chloro 4 fluorophenyl) 7 methoxy 6 (3 morpholinopropoxy)quinazolin 4 amine (gefitinib, AZD1839), N (3 ethynylphenyl) 6,7 bis (2 methoxyethoxy)quinazolin 4 amine (erlotinib, OSI 774) and 6 acrylamido N (3 chloro 4 fluorophenyl) 7 (3 morpholino
  • antiangiogenic agents such as those which inhibit the effects of vascular endothelial growth factor, (for example the anti vascular endothelial cell growth factor antibody bevacizumab [AvastinTM], anti-vascular endothelial growth factor receptor antibodies such anti-KDR antibodies and anti-flt1 antibodies, compounds such as those disclosed in International Patent Applications WO 97/22596, WO 97/30035, WO 97/3285, WO 98/13354, WO0/47212 and WO01/32651) and compounds that work by other mechanisms (for example linomide, inhibitors of integrin avb3 function and angiostatin);
  • vascular endothelial growth factor for example the anti vascular endothelial cell growth factor antibody bevacizumab [AvastinTM], anti-vascular endothelial growth factor receptor antibodies such anti-KDR antibodies and anti-flt1 antibodies, compounds such as those disclosed in International Patent Applications WO 97/22596, WO
  • vascular damaging agents such as Combretastatin A4 and compounds disclosed in International Patent Applications WO 99/02166, WO 00/40529, WO 00/41669, WO 01/92224, WO 02/04434 and WO 02/08213;
  • antisense therapies for example those which are directed to the targets listed above, such as ISIS 2503, an anti ras antisense;
  • gene therapy approaches including for example approaches to replace aberrant genes such as aberrant p53 or aberrant BRCA1 or BRCA2, GDEPT (gene directed enzyme pro drug therapy) approaches such as those using cytosine deaminase, thymidine kinase or a bacterial nitroreductase enzyme and approaches to increase patient tolerance to chemotherapy or radiotherapy such as multi drug resistance gene therapy; and
  • immunotherapy approaches including for example ex vivo and in vivo approaches to increase the immunogenicity of patient tumour cells, such as transfection with cytokines such as interleukin 2, interleukin 4 or granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor, approaches to decrease T cell anergy, approaches using transfected immune cells such as cytokine transfected dendritic cells, approaches using cytokine transfected tumour cell lines and approaches using anti idiotypic antibodies.
  • cytokines such as interleukin 2, interleukin 4 or granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor
  • the anti-angiogenic treatments of the invention are combined with agents which inhibit the effects of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), (for example the anti-vascular endothelial cell growth factor antibody bevacizumab (Avastin®), anti-vascular endothelial growth factor receptor antibodies such anti-KDR antibodies and anti-flt1 antibodies, compounds such as those disclosed in International Patent Applications WO 97/22596, WO 97/30035, WO 97/3285, WO 98/13354, WO00/47212 and WO01/32651) and compounds that work by other mechanisms (for example linomide, inhibitors of integrin avb3 function and angiostatin);
  • the anti-angiogenic treatments of the invention are combined agents which inhibit the tyrosine kinase activity of the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor, KDR (for example AZD2171 or AZD6474).
  • AZD2171 may be found in Wedge et al (2005) Cancer Research. 65(10):4389-400. Additional details on AZD6474 may be found in Ryan & Wedge (2005) British Journal of Cancer. 92 Suppl 1:S6-13. Both publications are herein incorporated by reference in their entireties.
  • the fully human antibodies 3.19.3, 3.3.2 or 5.88.3 are combined alone or in combination with AvastinTM, AZD2171 or AZD6474.
  • Such conjoint treatment may be achieved by way of the simultaneous, sequential or separate dosing of the individual components of the treatment.
  • Such combination products employ the compounds of this invention, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, within the dosage range described hereinbefore and the other pharmaceutically active agent within its approved dosage range.
  • Ang-2 Recombinant human Ang-2 obtained from R&D Systems, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minn. Cat. No. 623-AM/CF) was used as an antigen. Monoclonal antibodies against Ang-2 were developed by sequentially immunizing XenoMouse® mice (XenoMouse strains XMG2 and XMG4 (3C-1 strain), Abgenix, Inc. Fremont, Calif.). XenoMouse animals were immunized via footpad route for all injections. The total volume of each injection was 50 ⁇ l per mouse, 25 ⁇ l per footpad.
  • the first injection was with 2.35 ⁇ g recombinant human Ang-2 (rhAng-2, cat#623-AM/CF; lot #BN023202A) in pyrogen-free Dulbecco's PBS (DPBS) and admixed 1:1 v/v with 10 ⁇ g CpG (15 ⁇ l of ImmunEasy Mouse Adjuvant, catalog #303101; lot #11553042; Qiagen) per mouse.
  • DPBS Dulbecco's PBS
  • Anti-Ang-2 antibody titers in the serum from immunized XenoMouse mice were determined by ELISA. Briefly, recombinant Ang-2 (1 ⁇ g/ml) was coated onto Costar Labcoat Universal Binding Polystyrene 96-well plates (Corning, Acton, Mass.) overnight at four degrees in Antigen Coating Buffer (0.1 M Carbonate Buffer, pH 9.6 NaHCO 3 8.4 g/L). The next day, the plates were washed 3 times with washing buffer (0.05% Tween 20 in 1 ⁇ PBS) using a Biotek plate washer.
  • Antigen Coating Buffer 0.1 M Carbonate Buffer, pH 9.6 NaHCO 3 8.4 g/L
  • the plates were then blocked with 200 ⁇ l/well blocking buffer (0.5% BSA, 0.1% Tween 20, 0.01% Thimerosal in 1 ⁇ PBS) and incubated at room temperature for 1 h. After the one-hour blocking, the plates were washed 3 times with washing buffer using a Biotek plate washer. Sera from either Ang-2 immunized XenoMouse mice or na ⁇ ve XenoMouse animals were titrated in 0.5% BSA/PBS buffer at 1:3 dilutions in duplicate from a 1:100 initial dilution. The last well was left blank. These plates were incubated at room temperature for 2 hr, and the plates were then washed 3 times with washing buffer using a Biotek plate washer.
  • TMB chromogenic substrate BioFx BSTP-0100-01
  • the ELISA was stopped by the addition of Stop Solution (650 nM Stop reagent for TMB (BioFx BSTP-0100-01), reconstituted with 100 ml H 2 O per bottle).
  • Stop Solution 650 nM Stop reagent for TMB (BioFx BSTP-0100-01)
  • the specific titer of each XenoMouse animal was determined from the optical density at 650 nm and is shown in Tables 2 and 3 below. The titer value is the reciprocal of the greatest dilution of sera with an OD reading two-fold that of background. Therefore, the higher the number, the greater was the humoral immune response to Ang-2.
  • Immunized mice were sacrificed by cervical dislocation, and the draining lymph nodes harvested and pooled from each cohort.
  • the lymphoid cells were dissociated by grinding in DMEM to release the cells from the tissues and the cells were suspended in DMEM. The cells were counted, and 0.9 ml DMEM per 100 million lymphocytes added to the cell pellet to resuspend the cells gently but completely.
  • Using 100 ⁇ l of CD90+ magnetic beads per 100 million cells the cells were labeled by incubating the cells with the magnetic beads at 4° C. for 15 minutes.
  • the magnetically labeled cell suspension containing up to 10 8 positive cells (or up to 2 ⁇ 10 9 total cells) was loaded onto a LS+ column and the column washed with DMEM. The total effluent was collected as the CD90-negative fraction (most of these cells were expected to be B cells).
  • the fusion was performed by mixing washed enriched B cells from above and nonsecretory myeloma P3X63Ag8.653 cells purchased from ATCC, cat.# CRL 1580 (Kearney et al, J. Immunol. 123, 1979, 1548-1550) at a ratio of 1:1.
  • the cell mixture was gently pelleted by centrifugation at 800 ⁇ g. After complete removal of the supernatant, the cells were treated with 2-4 mL of Pronase solution (CalBiochem, cat. #53702; 0.5 mg/ml in PBS) for no more than 2 minutes.
  • Electro-cell fusion was performed using a fusion generator (model ECM2001, Genetronic, Inc., San Diego, Calif.).
  • the fusion chamber size used was 2.0 ml, using the following instrument settings:
  • Alignment condition voltage: 50 V, time: 50 sec.
  • the cell suspensions were carefully removed from the fusion chamber under sterile conditions and transferred into a sterile tube containing the same volume of Hybridoma Culture Medium (DMEM, JRH Biosciences), 15% FBS (Hyclone), supplemented with L-glutamine, pen/strep, OPI (oxaloacetate, pyruvate, bovine insulin) (all from Sigma) and IL-6 (Boehringer Mannheim).
  • DMEM Hybridoma Culture Medium
  • FBS Hybridoma Culture Medium
  • OPI oxaloacetate, pyruvate, bovine insulin
  • IL-6 Boehringer Mannheim
  • Hybridoma Selection Medium Hybridoma Culture Medium supplemented with 0.5 ⁇ HA (Sigma, cat. # A9666)
  • Hybridoma Selection Medium supplemented with 0.5 ⁇ HA (Sigma, cat. # A9666)
  • the cells were mixed gently and pipetted into 96-well plates and allowed to grow. On day 7 or 10, one-half the medium was removed, and the cells re-fed with Hybridoma Selection Medium.
  • ELISA plates (Fisher, Cat. No. 12-565-136) were coated with 50 ⁇ l/well of human Ang-2 (2 ⁇ g/ml) in Coating Buffer (0.1 M Carbonate Buffer, pH 9.6, NaHCO 3 8.4 g/L), then incubated at 4° C. overnight. After incubation, the plates were washed with Washing Buffer (0.05% Tween 20 in PBS) 3 times. 200 ⁇ l/well Blocking Buffer (0.5% BSA, 0.1% Tween 20, 0.01% Thimerosal in 1 ⁇ PBS) were added and the plates incubated at room temperature for 1 hour.
  • Coating Buffer 0.1 M Carbonate Buffer, pH 9.6, NaHCO 3 8.4 g/L
  • TMSK-0100-01 were added and the plates allowed to develop for about 10 minutes (until negative control wells barely started to show color). 50 ⁇ l/well stop solution (TMB Stop Solution, (BioFX Lab. Cat. No. STPR-0100-01) was then added and the plates read on an ELISA plate reader at 450 nm. There were 185 fully human IgG kappa antibodies against Ang-2.
  • All antibodies that bound in the ELISA assay were counter screened for binding to Ang-1 by ELISA in order to exclude those that cross-reacted with Ang-1.
  • the ELISA plates (Fisher, Cat. No. 12-565-136) were coated with 50 ⁇ l/well of recombinant Ang-1 (2 ⁇ g/ml, obtained from R&D Systems, Cat. #293-AN-025/CF) in Coating Buffer (0.1 M Carbonate Buffer, pH 9.6, NaHCO 3 8.4 g/L), then incubated at 4° C. overnight. Under the experimental conditions described here, when the recombinant Ang-1 molecule was immobilized on the ELISA plate, no antibodies were found to bind to Ang-1.
  • the counter screening described here has technical limitations.
  • the antibodies derive from line materials, but not a cloned hybridoma. Binding signals from a particular clone, which only account for a minor percentage of the line, may fall below the detection sensitivity threshold.
  • Ang-2 exerts its biological effect by binding to the Tie2 receptor.
  • Monoclonal antibodies that inhibited Ang-2/Tie2 binding were identified by a competitive binding assay using a modified ELISA.
  • the mAbs used were products of micro-purification from 50 ml of exhaustive supernatants of the hybridoma pools that were specific for Ang-2 (see Example 3).
  • 96-well Nunc ImmplatesTM were coated with 100 ⁇ l of recombinant human Tie2/Fc fusion protein (R&D Systems, Inc., Cat. No. 313-TI-100) at 4 ⁇ g/ml by incubating overnight at 4° C.
  • PBS Phosphate Buffer Saline
  • SkanTM Washer 300 station SkanTM Washer 300 station
  • ABX-blocking buffer 0.5% BSA, 0.1% Tween, 0.01% Thimerosal in PBS
  • Biotinylated recombinant human Ang-2 (R&D Systems, Inc. Cat. No. BT623) at 100 ng/ml was added in each well with or without the anti Ang-2 mAbs at 100 ⁇ g/ml. The plates were incubated at room temperature for two hours before the unbound molecules were washed off. Bound biotinylated Ang-2 was then detected using 100 ⁇ l/well of Streptavidin-HRP conjugate at 1:200 by incubating at room temperature for half an hour. After washing twice, the bound Streptavidin was detected by HRP substrate (R&D Systems, Cat. No. DY998).
  • the plates were incubated for 30 minutes before 450 stop solution (100 ⁇ l/well, BioFX, Cat# BSTP-0100-01) was added to terminate the reaction.
  • 450 stop solution 100 ⁇ l/well, BioFX, Cat# BSTP-0100-01
  • the light absorbance at 450 nm was determined by a Spectramax Plus reader.
  • Soluble recombinant Tie2/Fc fusion protein at 10-fold molar excess to Ang-2 was used as a positive control. At this concentration, Tie2/Fc inhibited binding of Ang-2 to immobilized Tie2 by 80%. With this as an arbitrary criterion, 74 out of 175 Ang-2 binding mAbs showed inhibitory activity. For the convenience of operation, the top 27 neutralizers were selected for subsequent hybridoma cloning.
  • Each hybridoma was cloned using a limited dilution method by following standard procedures. Three sister clones were collected from each hybridoma. For each clone, the supernatant was tested using ELISA binding to human Ang-2 and counter binding to Ang-1, as described above, to ensure that each antibody was only specific for Ang-2. Concentrations of IgG in the exhaustive supernatants were determined, and one clone with the highest yield among the three sister clones from each hybridoma was selected for IgG purification. 0.5 to 1 mg of IgG was purified from each supernatant for further characterization.
  • the titer was determined for purified mAbs from the top 27 candidates using a competitive binding assay. Each concentration of the mAb was tested in duplicate. The concentration-response relationship was found by curve fitting using Graphpad PrismTM graphic software (non-linear, Sigmoid curve). The maximal inhibition (efficacy) and IC 50 (potency) were calculated by the software. Ten monoclonal antibodies that exhibited both relative high efficacy and potency were selected for further investigation. The efficacy and potency of these 10 mAbs are listed in Table 4.
  • Luminex beads were coupled with mouse anti-huIgG (Pharmingen#555784) following the protein coupling protocol provided on the Luminex website. Pre-coupled beads were prepared for coupling to primary unknown antibody using the following procedure, protecting the beads from light. Individual tubes were used for each unknown supernatant.
  • the filter plate was pre-wetted by adding 200 ⁇ l wash buffer per well, which was then aspirated. 50 ⁇ l of each bead was added to each well of the filter plate. Samples were washed once by adding 100 ⁇ l/well wash buffer and aspirating. Antigen and controls were added to the filter plate at 50 ⁇ l/well. The plate was covered, incubated in the dark for 1 hour on a shaker, and then samples were washed 3 times: A secondary unknown antibody was then added at 50 ⁇ l/well. A concentration of 0.1 ⁇ g/ml was used for the primary antibody. The plate was then incubated in the dark for 2 hours at room temperature on a shaker, and then samples were washed 3 times. 50 ⁇ l/well of biotinylated mouse anti-human IgG (Pharmingen #555785) diluted at 1:500 was added, and samples were incubated in the dark for 1 hour with shaking at room temperature.
  • the label-free surface plasmon resonance (SPR), or Biacore was utilized to measure the antibody affinity to the antigen.
  • SPR surface plasmon resonance
  • a high-density goat anti-human antibody surface over a CM5 Biacore chip was prepared using routine amine coupling. All the purified mAbs were diluted to approximately 8 ⁇ g/ml in HBS-P running buffer containing 100 ⁇ g/ml BSA and 10 mg/mL carboxymethyldextran. Each mAb was captured on a separate surface using a 42-second contact time, and a 5-minute wash for stabilization of the mAb baseline.
  • Ang-2 was injected at 90.9 nM over all surfaces for one minute, followed by a 10-minute dissociation. Double-referenced binding data was prepared by subtracting the signal from a control flow cell and subtracting the baseline drift of a buffer injected just prior to the Ang-2 injection. Ang-2 binding data for each mAb were normalized for the amount of in mAb captured on each surface, and the normalized, drift-corrected responses for the 27 mAbs were determined. Data were fit globally to a 1:1 interaction model to determine the binding kinetics. The kinetic analysis results of Ang-2 binding at 25° C. are listed in the table below. The mAbs are ranked from highest to lowest affinity.
  • Dissociation data is normally measured 4-6 hours for high-resolution kinetic experiments with mAbs having sub-100 pM affinities.
  • the maximum dissociation time that can be measured without drift artifacts from a captured mAb surface is 20 minutes. Almost negligible signal decay is measured over such a relatively short time with high affinity mAbs so the k d estimate may vary by as much as two orders of magnitude.
  • mAbs 5.16, 5.35, and 5.41 were diluted to approximately 8 ⁇ g/ml in 10 mM sodium acetate, pH 5.0. Each diluted mAB was then immobilized on a different flow cell surface (CM5 Biacore chip) using routine amine coupling.
  • CM5 Biacore chip flow cell surface
  • the cross-reactivity of antibodies to Ang-1 was further investigated by measuring the affinity of the mAbs to Ang-1. Instead of immobilizing Ang-1, as described in ELISA-based counter-binding (Example 3), Ang-2 mAbs were immobilized to the CM5 Biacore chips, and Ang-1 in solution was injected for the determination of the on-rate and off-rate. Six mAbs, including 3.3.2, 3.31.2, 5.16.3, 5.86.1, 5.88.3, and 3.19.3, were tested in this experiment as described below to determine how strongly they cross-reacted with Ang-1.
  • mAb 3.19.3 was diluted to 12.5 ⁇ g/ml in 10 mM sodium acetate, pH 4.0. The mAb was then immobilized on flow cells 1-3 (CM5 Biacore chip) using routine amine coupling, leaving flow cell 4 as the reference flow cell.
  • mAb 3.19.3 was diluted to 12.5 ⁇ g/ml in 10 mM sodium acetate, pH 4.0. The mAb was then immobilized on flow cells 1-3 (CM5 Biacore chip) using routine amine coupling, leaving flow cell 4 as the reference flow cell.
  • mAb 3.19.3 did not bind to Ang-1 in the ELISA-based binding assay (Example 3), when Ang-1 was immobilized on the ELISA plate.
  • the likely explanation for this discrepancy is that when Ang-1 was immobilized on the surface of plastics, a subtle epitope critical for the binding of mAb 3.19.3 was not exposed appropriately.
  • Ang-1 was in the liquid phase, such as in the Biacore experimental conditions, this epitope became accessible to mAb 3.19.3 and binding occurred.
  • the KinExA instrument method used for the analysis of these solutions consisted of a bead packing step in which the PMMA beads were packed into a glass capillary, and the equilibrated solutions were flowed through the bead column at 0.25 mL/min for 6 min (1.5 mL) in duplicate. Subsequently, a fluorescently labeled Cy-5 goat anti-human (Fc specific) polyclonal antibody at 3.4 nM was flowed through the bead pack for 1 min at 0.5 mL/min to label the mAb with free binding sites captured on the beads. The fluorescence emission from the bead pack was measured at 670 nm with excitation at 620 nm.
  • the resulting fluorescence measurements were converted into “% free nab binding site” versus total antigen concentration using the accompanying KinExA software package (version 1.0.3, Sapidyne, Inc.).
  • the resulting K D -controlled titration curve was fit with the KinExA software to a 1:1 equilibrium isotherm with a drift correction factor included.
  • the value of the K D that fit the data optimally was 86.4 pM with low and high 95% confidence limits at 64.3 pM and 98.7 pM, respectively.
  • a mAb-controlled titration curve was not performed.
  • Tie2 is an endothelial cell specific receptor tyrosine kinase.
  • Ang-1 induces Tie2 phosphorylation
  • Ang-2 inhibits the receptor phosphorylation induced by Ang-1.
  • Tie2 is expressed ectopically, such as in fibroblasts
  • Ang-2 is also able to induce Tie2 phosphorylation under certain conditions, including but not limited to, prolonged exposure to Angiopoietin-2 or exposure to high concentrations of Angiopoietin-2.
  • Ang-2 induced Tie2 phosphorylation also occurs when the receptor is expressed in HEK293F cells.
  • Plasmid vector pORK/pBS-SK having a Tie2 cDNA was obtained from the ATCC (Cat. No. 69003, Genbank sequence BC033514). The accuracy of the cDNA was confirmed by nucleotide sequencing.
  • a 3.9 kb fragment containing a 3375 bp cDNA that encodes human Tie2 was removed from the vector by EcoRI digestion. This fragment was subcloned in the proper orientation into a pCR3.1 vector digested with EcoRI following standard procedures. The selected plasmid was amplified and purified by standard protocols.
  • the Tie2 containing construct obtained by the above procedures was transfected into HEK293F cells by the calcium phosphate transfection method.
  • 1 ⁇ 10 6 HEK293F cells were grown in 100 mm tissue culture dishes coated with 1% gelatin at 37° C. with 5% CO 2 . The cells were fed with fresh media for 2-3 hours before transfection. 10 ⁇ g of the plasmid DNA was dissolved in 248 mM calcium phosphate solution. Transfection was performed using standard procedures. Stable transfectants were selected by incubation in 0.5 mg/ml G418. Stable transfectants expressing Tie2 were identified by FACS analysis using mouse anti-Tie2 mAb (R&D Cat. No. MAB313) and a goat anti-mouse IgG-PE conjugate antibody (Caltag, Cat. No. M30004-4) for detection.
  • HEK 293F/Tie-2 transfectants were grown in 60 mm cell culture dishes at a density of 2 ⁇ 10 6 cells/plate with complete medium at 37° C. with 5% CO 2 until they reached sub-confluency. The complete medium in each plate was replaced with 2 ml of serum free medium. The cells were incubated for an additional 16 hours. Subsequently, the medium was replaced again with 2 ml of serum-free medium. After an additional 2-hr incubation, the cells were treated with 0.1 mM sodium orthovanadate (Sigma, Cat. No. S 6508) for 20 minutes.
  • the cells were treated with Ang-2 (2 ⁇ g/ml) in the presence or absence of mAbs at 100 ⁇ g/ml. Treatments were performed in duplicate. A negative control without Ang-2 treatment was included.
  • Cells were rinsed with ice-cold TBS containing vanadate and lysed with 300 ⁇ l/plate of cooled NP-40 lysis buffer (50 mM Hepes, pH7.2, supplemented with 0.15M NaCl, 10% glycerol, 10 mM pyrophosphate, 50 mM NaF, 1% NP40, 100 U/ml aprotinin, 1 mM PMSF, 0.1 mM orthovanadate, 10 ⁇ M leupeptin and 10 ⁇ M pepstatin A), while putting the plates on ice for 10 minutes.
  • the treated cells were scraped from the plates into a microtube pre-chilled on ice.
  • the cell lysates were sonicated briefly and centrifuged at 12,000 ⁇ g for 10 minutes at 4° C. in a tabletop microfuge. Supernatants were collected into fresh microtubes, and 1-5 ⁇ g of anti-Tie2 mAb (R&D Systems, Inc.) were added to the supernatant, followed by gentle rocking for 2 hours at 4° C. 50 ⁇ l of ImmunoPure Immobilized Protein A (PIERCE Cat. No. 20333) was added to the mixture, and incubated for at least 3 hours at 4° C. on a rocking platform. Complexes were collected by centrifugation at 12,000 ⁇ g for 10 minutes.
  • the complexes were washed twice with the lysis buffer by centrifuging (12,000 ⁇ g, 4° C.) for 4 minutes.
  • the pellets were re-suspended in 50 ⁇ l of 2 ⁇ electrophoresis sample buffer (Invitrogen, Cat. No. LC-2676) with 1 mM of ⁇ -mercaptoethanol or DTT, and boiled for 5 minutes before being centrifuged (12,000 ⁇ g, 4° C.) for 5 minutes.
  • the supernatants were transferred to fresh tubes.
  • SDS-PAGE gel e.g., 4-20% Tris-Glycine gel, Invitrogen, Cat. No. EC 6025. Electrophoreses was performed in Tris-Glycine buffer system. After electrophoresis, the gel was blotted onto a PVDF membrane (Invitrogen, Cat. No. LC 2005) following a standard protocol. Tyrosine phosphorylation was probed with 4G10 anti-phosphotyrosine antibody at 1 ⁇ g/ml (Upstate, Cat. No. 05-321) by incubation for 1 hour at room temperature with shaking, and followed by washing with 1 ⁇ TBST (TBS with 0.1% of Tween-20) three times.
  • 4G10 anti-phosphotyrosine antibody at 1 ⁇ g/ml (Upstate, Cat. No. 05-321) by incubation for 1 hour at room temperature with shaking, and followed by washing with 1 ⁇ TBST (TBS with 0.1% of Tween-20) three times.
  • the bound antibodies were detected by incubation with horseradish peroxidase-conjugated goat anti-mouse IgG (Santa Cruz, Cat. No. sc-2302) at 1:10,000 dilution for 1 hour at room temperature, followed by the enhance chemiluminescence reaction using SuperSignal West Dura Extended Duration Substrate system (PIERCE Cat. No. 34075). Subsequently, the blot was stripped with Restore Western Blot Stripping Buffer (PIERCE, Cat. No. 21059) and re-probed with specific antibodies against RTK to verify the quality of sample loading.
  • the concentration-response relationship was found by curve fitting using Graphpad PrismTM graphic software (non-linear, Sigmoid curve).
  • the maximal inhibition (efficacy) and IC 50 (potency) were calculated as shown in FIG. 2 .
  • the EC50 was calculated as shown in below in Table 9.
  • mAb 3.19.3 Inhibits Angiopoietin-1 Binding to Tie-2 and Ang-1 Induced Tie2 Phosphorylation
  • mAb 3.19.3 cross-reacts with human Ang-1 (examples 8 and 9). However, initial experiments indicated that mAb 3.19.3 did not inhibit Tie2 phosphorylation induced by Ang-1. The discrepancy may be explained by the following: (1) high concentration of Ang-1, which is far above physiological concentration, may be required to generate robust Tie2 phosphorylation signal; or (2) Ecotopic expression of Tie2 in HEK293 may alter the conformation of Tie2, and thus change its susceptibility to different ligands. To test there hypotheses mAb 3.19.3 was tested in a binding assay where low concentration of Ang-1 or Ang-2 (3 nM) bound to cell surface Tie2.
  • HEK293F/Tie2 transfectants were allowed to grow until 95% confluent in culture flasks before being harvested.
  • Cell suspension of 4 million cells/mL in FACS Buffer were prepared, and then aliquoted to a 96-well polypropylene plate with 50 ul per well.
  • the mAb 3.19.3 with indicated concentrations were added into the cell suspension.
  • solutions of recombinant human Ang-1 and Ang-2 were added into the cell suspension, followed by incubation at room temperature for 2 hours. Cells were washed by centrifuging the plate at 1,200 rpm for 5 minutes, removing the supernatant by aspirating, and resuspending the cells with 200 ul per well of FACS Buffer.
  • the cells were then suspended with 100 ul of mouse Anti-6 ⁇ -Histidine antibody diluted to 2 ug/ml in FACS Buffer, and incubated at room temperature for 30 minutes. After washing, the cells were suspended in 100 ul of PE-conjugated goat anti-mouse-IgG, which was diluted 1:100 in FACS Buffer, for incubation at room temperature for 30 minutes. The volume of the samples were brought to 300 ul with FACS Buffer, and measured with FACS Calibur.
  • the inhibitory activity of the mAb 3.19.3 on Ang-1 induced Tie2 phosphorylation was quantified as follows.
  • the mAb showed an obvious increasing inhibition of Tie-2 phosphorylation with increasing antibody concentration, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 .
  • a plot of the dose response curve led to the calculation of an IC50 of 99 nM.
  • EA.hy926/B3 cells were seeded into 6 well plates using 2.5 ⁇ 105 EA.hy 926 cells/well in 2 ml volume DMEM; HAT; 10% FCS and incubated for 3 days under standard mammalian cell growth conditions.
  • the growth medium was replaced with 2 mls of DMEM (with no FCS) and the cells serum-starved for a total of 2 hours.
  • Test compounds were diluted in DMEM; 1% FCS to twice the desired final concentration. After 1 hour 40 minutes of the serum starvation, the medium was removed from the cells and replaced with 1 ml of test compound dilutions. Similarly, non-compound treated controls were also progressed to provide samples that represent 100% ligand stimulation standards.
  • the 6 well plate(s) were then cooled by placing on an ice cold metal plate (itself kept on ice).
  • the cell medium was removed and the cell layer washed with 5 ml of cold PBS; 1 mM orthovanadate.
  • One ml of ice cold lysis buffer (20 mM Tris pH 7.6, 150 mM NaCl, 50 mM NaF, 0.1% SDS, 1% NP40, 0.5% DOC, 1 mM orthovanadate, 1 mM EDTA, 1 mM PMSF, 30 ⁇ l/ml Aprotinin, 10 ⁇ g/ml Pepstatin, 10 ⁇ g/ml Leupeptin) was added to each well and left on ice for 10-20 minutes.
  • the cells were scraped off the plate using a cell lifter and the whole lysate solution transfer to a 1.5 ml Eppendorf tube and kept on ice. The samples were then spun for 3 minutes at 13000 rpm at 4° C. and all subsequent steps carried out at 4° C.
  • each lysate 50 ⁇ l of each lysate were kept for the BCA Protein assay (Pierce, Cat. No. 23225) (in low protein binding polypropylene microtiter plates from Greiner). The protein concentration was determined using the standard assay conditions supplied with the kit. A further 800 ⁇ l of each sample lysate was transferred to a fresh 2 ml Eppendorf tube in preparation for the immunoprecipitation (IP). 15 ⁇ l (3 mg) of anti P—Y (Santa Cruz Cat. No. E2203) were added to the lysates and left to incubate for 2 hours at 4° C. before adding 600 ⁇ l of the Magnabind beads (goat anti mouse IgG, Pierce Cat. No. 21354).
  • BCA Protein assay Pierce, Cat. No. 23225
  • IP immunoprecipitation
  • the Magnabind beads were prepared as follows: The required volume was transferred into 15 ml conical tubes. Tubes were then placed in the presence of a magnetic field and the liquid was removed. Fresh PBS was added using the original volume, and the beads were re-suspended. This process was repeated twice. The lysate-containing solution was then mixed with the beads and the tubes left to rotate overnight at 4° C. on a rotor mixer.
  • the samples were analyzed using PAGE/SDS gels using 4-12% BisTris NuPAGE/MOPS gels with 15 wells (Novex). The total 12 ⁇ l of each immunoprecipitate was loaded per slot. The gels were run at 200 V/120 mA/25 Watts for 55 minutes and then the samples western blotted onto nitrocellulose membrane for 1 hr 30 min at 50 V/250 mA. All blots were then treated with 5% Marvel in PBS-Tween for 1 hour at room temperature and then washed with PBS-Tween
  • Rabbit anti Tie-2 antibody (Santa Cruz Cat. No. C1303) was diluted 1:500 in 0.5% Marvel/PBS-Tween and 12.5 mls added to each blot and left at 4° C. overnight. The blots were then washed with PBS-Tween and goat anti rabbit-POD (Dako Cat. No. P 0448) (1:5000 dilution in 0.5% Marvel/PBS-Tween) added to each blot and left for 1 hour at room temperature. The blots were washed with PBS-Tween and each blot developed for 10 minutes using 12.5 mLs (equal volumes of solution A and B) of Supersignal (PIERCE Cat. No. 34080).
  • FIG. 4 is a Western blot showing the results of this assay. In this system, inhibition of Angiopoietin-1 stimulated phosphorylation of Tie-2 by mAb 3.19.3 was observed.
  • FIG. 5 is a graphical representation of these values, and shows that the IC50 for inhibition of Angiopoietin-1 stimulated Tie-2 phosphorylation is 99 nM.
  • variable heavy chains and the variable light chains of the antibodies were sequenced to determine their DNA sequences.
  • the complete sequence information for the anti-Ang-2 antibodies is provided in the sequence listing with nucleotide and amino acid sequences for each gamma and kappa chain combination.
  • the variable heavy sequences were analyzed to determine the VH family, the D-region sequence and the J-region sequence.
  • the sequences were then translated to determine the primary amino acid sequence and compared to the germline VH, D and J-region sequences to assess somatic hypermutations.
  • Table 11 is a table comparing the antibody heavy chain regions to their cognate germ line heavy chain region.
  • Table 12 is a table comparing the antibody kappa light chain regions to their cognate germ line light chain region.
  • variable (V) regions of immunoglobulin chains are encoded by multiple germ line DNA segments, which are joined into functional variable regions (V H DJ H or V K J K ) during B-cell ontogeny.
  • V H DJ H or V K J K functional variable regions
  • amino acid sequences among the sister clones collected from each hybridoma are identical.
  • the heavy chain and light chain sequences for mAb 3.19.3 are identical to the sequences shown in Tables 11 and 12 for mAbs 3.19 and 3.19.1.
  • Chothia, et al. have described antibody structure in terms of “canonical classes” for the hypervariable regions of each immunoglobulin chain ( J Mol Biol. 1987 Aug. 20; 196(4):901-17).
  • the atomic structures of the Fab and VL fragments of a variety of immunoglobulins were analyzed to determine the relationship between their amino acid sequences and the three-dimensional structures of their antigen binding sites.
  • Chothia, et al. found that there were relatively few residues that, through their packing, hydrogen bonding or the ability to assume unusual phi, psi or omega conformations, were primarily responsible for the main-chain conformations of the hypervariable regions. These residues were found to occur at sites within the hypervariable regions and in the conserved beta-sheet framework.
  • the CDRs of each antibody described above were analyzed to determine their canonical class.
  • canonical classes have only been assigned for CDR1 and CDR2 of the antibody heavy chain, along with CDR1, CDR2 and CDR3 of the antibody light chain.
  • Table 13 summarizes the results of the analysis.
  • the Canonical Class data is in the form of *HCDR1-HCDR2-LCDR1-LCDR2-LCDR3, wherein “HCDR” refers to the heavy chain CDR and “LCDR” refers to the light chain CDR.
  • a canonical class of 1-3-2-1-5 refers to an antibody that has a HCDR1 that falls into canonical class 1, a HCDR2 that falls into canonical class 3, a LCDR1 that falls into canonical class 2, a LCDR2 that falls into canonical class 1, and a LCDR3 that falls into canonical class 5.
  • Table 14 is an analysis of the number of antibodies per class. The number of antibodies having the particular canonical class designated in the left column is shown in the right column.
  • the binding domain of 27 antibodies neutralizing the activity of Ang-2 was analyzed.
  • Recombinant Human Ang-2 was purchased from R&D systems (623-AN).
  • Goat anti-human Ang-2 polyclonal antibodies (R&D systems AF623) were selected for their ability to recognize rhAng-2 in direct ELISA and Western blots.
  • the polyclonal antibodies were biotinylated for detection with HRP conjugated-Streptavidin
  • Antibodies 27 hybridoma derived human anti Ang-2 antibodies were selected based on their ability to inhibit binding of rhAng-2 to its receptor. The antibodies are listed below in Table 15.
  • Hybridoma code OD650 in inibition assay 1 x5.56 0.0863 2 x3.38 0.0792 3 x3.19 0.0633 4 x3.28* 0.0588 5 x3.3 0.0558 6 x3.31* 0.0516 7 x5.88* 0.0874 8 x5.49* 0.0856 9 x5.101 0.0824 10 x5.41* 0.0776 11 x5.108* 0.0688 12 x5.62 0.0650 13 x5.39 0.0519 14 x5.16* 0.0500 15 x5.83 0.0484 16 x5.54 0.0440 17 x5.14 0.0430 18 x5.86 0.0419 19 x5.78 0.0984 20 x5.103* 0.1013 21 x5.28 0.0821 22 x5.40 0.0691 23 x5.35* 0.0663 24 x6.3 0.0617 25 x5.13 0.0744 26 x5.2 0.0690 27 x5.52 0.0627
  • RhAng-2 (R&D systems) was spotted on nitrocellulose membrane in its native or reduced form, using Bio-Dot Microfiltration unit. All human monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) raised against human Ang-2 had bound to non-reduced Ang-2, but not to reduced form, indicating that all mAbs recognize conformational epitopes, which are apparently destroyed upon reduction of the protein.
  • Ang-2 To better understand the structural basis for interaction of mAbs with Ang-2, a set of chimeric Ang1/Ang-2 molecules were used. This approach takes advantage of the fact that members of the angiogenic family are structurally related. Although Ang-2 and Ang1 show only 60% homology in their protein sequence, both share the same modular structure composed of an amino terminal coiled-coil domain and a carboxyl terminal fibrinogen like-domain.
  • Ang-2 cDNAs Two alternatively spliced forms of human Ang-2 cDNAs were amplified from human umbilical vein endothelial cell line (HUVEC). PCR amplification of HUVEC cDNA using Ang-2 specific primers revealed both the full length Ang-2 (1491 bp) and a 1330 base pain variant Ang-2 443 (Injune et al., (2000) JBC 275: 18550). Ang-2 443 is a variant generated by alternative splicing of exon B and missing part of the coiled-coil domain (amino-acids 96-148). Both Ang-2 cDNAs were cloned into pCR3.1 expression vector and expressed in 293F cells as shown in FIG. 6 .
  • Human Ang-1 cDNA was obtained by RT-PCR using total RNA extracted from human breast cell line MDA-MB-231. A 1.5 Kb cDNA was cloned into pCR3.1 expression vector and expression was detected in the supernatant of transiently transfected 293F cells.
  • Binding of the 27 mAbs to supernatants generated from transient transfection of Ang-2 and Ang1 cDNAs was tested using antibody capture ELISA.
  • Ang-2, Ang-2 443 and Ang-1 were bound to an ELISA plate coated with goat polyclonal antibodies against human Ang-2 or Ang-1 (respectively).
  • the binding of the top 27 human monoclonal antibodies was detected with a HRP-conjugated goat anti-human antibody, followed by colorimetric horseradish peroxidase substrate (Enhanced K-Blue TMB substrate Neogen Corporation).
  • the absorbance of each well of the ELISA plates was measured at 450 nm on a microplate autoreader.
  • 293F human embryonic kidney cells were maintained in 10% fetal bovine serum in Dulbecco's modified eagles medium supplemented with penicillin and streptomycin. 293F cells were transiently transfected using Calcium phosphate. At 72 hours, the medium was harvested and filtered for ELISA and Western Blot analysis.
  • the Amino acid joining points are at the following positions:
  • the difference of one amino acid is due to the presence of 497 residues in the human Ang-1 compared to 496 residues in the human Ang-2. All constructs were expressed in 293F cells, and detected by goat anti-human polyclonal antibodies against Ang-1 and Ang-2. The top 27 antibodies were tested for their ability to bind chimeric Ang-1/2 molecules. All 27 antibodies showed a similar pattern of binding to the Ang-1/2BsmI construct only. The results of these experiments indicate that the binding domain for all antibodies is between residues 117-496, most likely in the fibrinogen binding domain, where the epitope is disrupted in the SspI fusion Ang proteins around amino acid 353.
  • Mouse and human Ang-2 are more similar, having about 85% sequence homology.
  • Mouse Ang-2 cDNA cloned in the pCMCsport expression vector was purchased from Invitrogen. The 27 selected antibodies were tested for their immunoreactivity with recombinant mouse Ang-2. Six out of the 27 cross reacted with mouse Ang-2 with 100% of their immunoreactivity on human Ang-2, indicating that the murine antigen retains most of the immunoreactivity of human Ang-2 (Data are summarized in Table 16).
  • the human-Mouse chimeric system was chosen for epitope mapping based on the findings that most antibodies bind specifically to the human Ang-2 antigen and do not cross react with mouse Ang-2.
  • Various cDNA constructs of Ang-2 were generated and cloned into a mammalian expression vector.
  • Antibodies that cross reacted with mouse Ang-2 were expected to show 100% reactivity and could not be mapped using Mouse/human chimeric constructs.
  • FIG. 9 is an amino acid sequence comparison of mouse Ang-1 (SEQ ID NO: 5), human Ang-1 (SEQ ID NO: 2), mouse Ang-2 (SEQ ID NO: 4), and human Ang-2 (SEQ ID NO: 3).
  • the arrowhead shows the cleavage site for hydrophobic leader sequences.
  • the arrows define the limits of the coiled-coil and fibrinogen like domains.
  • the solid circles show the conserved cysteine residues (image taken from Maisonpierre et al., 1997 , Science 277:55).
  • sequence analysis of IgH and IgL sequences was accomplished using sequence analysis software tools, and by alignment of VH genes to a germ line database.
  • the software also evaluates D elements, reading frame, N region insertion, P nucleotide addition, nucleotide loss and CDR3 length.
  • Analysis of 27 individual antibodies specific to CR64 yielded only 7 germline VH genes, 10 of them from the same VH1 family. Selection of neutralizing antibodies showed that antibodies expressing same Ig V H and in some cases same V H DJ H rearrangements and that pairs of H and L chain were conserved.
  • V H , V K and complementary determining region (CDR) structures by different monoclonal antibodies is linked to the fact that all Ang-2 neutralizing activity is restricted to the fibrinogen like domain, and is in agreement with work published by Procopio et al (1999 , JBC 274: 30196), showing that the effect of Ang-2 on Tie2 is linked to the Fibrinogen-like domain.
  • the epitope mapping data indicates that the monoclonal antibodies bind Ang-2 through a broad interface that includes most of the fibrinogen like domain.
  • mice Ang-2 expression vector was constructed, and eukaryotic cells were transfected transiently to produce mouse Ang-2.
  • Mouse Angiopoietin-2 (mAng-2) expression construct was obtained from Research Genetics, a distributor of the I.M.A.G.E consortium (see world wide web at image.llnl.gov).
  • Mouse Ang-2 cDNA GenBank Accession No. BC027216, IMAGE:3494566 was derived from the library NCI_CGAP_Lu29, which is a lung tumor library.
  • the cDNA was cloned into the pCMV-SPORT6 expression vector (Invitrogen Carlsbad, Calif.) through SalI(5′) and NotI(3′) sites and contained the full length mouse Ang-2 (mAng-2) open reading frame of 496 amino acids, as well as the 5′ and 3′ untranslated flanking regions for a total of 2471 base pairs.
  • mAng-2 mouse Ang-2
  • mAng-2 plasmid Ten ⁇ g of the above mAng-2 plasmid was transfected into HEK293F cells using the calcium phosphate method. Approximately, 1 ⁇ 10 6 HEK293F cells were seeded on a 10 cm tissue culture plate on the previous day. The medium was changed after 5 hours or overnight transfection and the cells were grown for another 2-3 days before the supernatants containing the secreted mAng-2 protein were collected. The expression of mAng-2 was confirmed by ELISA using a polyclonal antibody obtained from R&D Systems (catalog No. AF623).
  • 96-well Nunc Immplates were coated with conditioned-medium collected from HEK293F/mouse Ang-2 transfectants, 100 ⁇ l in each well. The plates were incubated at 4° C. overnight, followed by washing four times using Phosphate Buffer Saline with a Skan Washer 300 station (SKATRON). The wells were blocked by 100 ⁇ l of ABX-block buffer (0.5% BSA, 0.1% Tween, 0.01% Thimerosal in PBS) for 1 hour. Anti-Ang-2 in Abs with appropriate concentrations and diluted in the blocking buffer were added into the wells with a volume of 100 ⁇ l/well, and incubated at room temperature for at least 1 hour.
  • ABX-block buffer 0.5% BSA, 0.1% Tween, 0.01% Thimerosal in PBS
  • the mAbs and each of their dilutes were tested in duplicate. After washing twice, the bound mAbs were detected by goat anti-human Fc-HPPO-conjugated antibody (Caltag, Code H10507) at 1/1,000 dilution at room temperature for an hour.
  • To set up the detecting chromagenic reaction 100 ⁇ l of TMB substrate (TMB-microwell, BioFX, Cat. No. TMSK-1000-01) was added after washing the wells three times using PBS. The plates were incubated for 30 minutes before 650 stop solution (100 ⁇ l/well, BioFX, Cat. No. BSTP-0100-01) was added to terminate the reaction. The light absorbance at 650 mm was determined by a Spectramax Plus reader.
  • the top 27 neutralizing mAbs were tested in this assay.
  • the light absorbance demonstrated that monoclonal antibodies 3.19.3, 3.38, 5.2.1, 5.52.1, 5.56.1, and 5.78.1 were capable of binding to mouse Ang-2 under the experimental conditions.
  • each binding antibody was titered by ELISA.
  • the mean OD 650 nm ( ⁇ S.D.) values were plotted against Log concentration of mAbs ( ⁇ g/ml) is shown in FIG. 10 .
  • the clones 5.2.1, 5.28.1, 3.19.3 and 3.31.2 are shown in the figure.
  • Monoclonal antibodies 5.2.1 and 3.19.3 bound mouse Ang-2 in a dose-dependent manner, reaching saturation at about 10 ⁇ g/ml ( FIG. 10 ).
  • the monoclonal antibody 3.19.3 was selected for further testing of its ability to inhibit the binding of mouse Ang-2 to human Tie2.
  • an ELISA plate was coated with 4 ⁇ g/ml of hTie2/Fc (R&D Systems, Inc.) at 100 ⁇ l/well, and the wells were blocked as routine at 4° C. overnight.
  • the recombinant mouse Ang-2 (mAng-2) in the culture supernatant of the 293T/mAng-2 transfectants described above was employed. 100 ⁇ l of mAng-2 containing supernatant with mAb 3.19.3 at various concentrations was added into the pre-coated wells, and incubated at room temperature for 1 hr.
  • recombinant human Ang-2 (R&D Systems, Inc.) mixed with the antibody was also included. Each concentration of the mAb was tested in triplicate. The bound mouse and human Ang-2 were detected using a goat anti-human Ang-2 polyclonal antibody (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, Calif.) that cross-react with mouse Ang-2, coupled with a secondary rabbit anti-goat IgG-HRP. OD650 was determined 30 min after the HRP substrate was added. It was discovered that mAb 3.19.3 inhibited binding of both human and mouse Ang-2 to human Tie2 in a dose-dependent manner ( FIG. 11 ).
  • Ang-2 is specifically expressed in angiogenic endothelial cells
  • these cells from monkeys were immunohistochemically stained with anti-Ang-2 antibodies as a way to indirectly determine whether each antibody cross-reacted with monkey Ang-2.
  • the top 10 neutralizing mAbs selected as described in Example 4 were examined in this experiment using endothelial cell-rich ovarian tissue from monkeys.
  • Completely dried 6 ⁇ m frozen monkey ( Cynomolgus macaque ) ovary tissue sections were fixed with 4° C. acetone for 5 minutes. After washing the slides three times with PBS, the endogenous peroxidase of the tissues was blocked with 0.3% of H 2 O 2 for 10 minutes. Subsequently, the tissues were washed with PBS and blocked with 10 ⁇ g/ml goat anti-human IgG Fab for 15 minutes. The tissue sections were washed again with PBS followed by treatment with 10% normal goat serum for 10 minutes.
  • each of the 10 anti-Ang-2 mAbs (10 ⁇ g/ml) were applied to the sections and incubated for 2 hours.
  • the bound Ang-2 mAbs were detected with 10 ⁇ g/ml mouse anti-human IgG for 15 minutes followed by incubation with peroxidase conjugated goat anti-mouse IgG for 30 minutes. Staining was performed using AEC-substrate system (DAKO, Cat. No. 3464) wider microscopic observation for optimal result.
  • MCF-7 cells were found to produce Ang-2 when cultured in vitro, or implanted in an immunodeficient mouse as a xenograft. When MCF-7 was incorporated into Matrigel and implanted subcutaneously into nude mice, robust vascular in growth into the gel was found.
  • a total of 0.5 mL of Matrigel containing 2 ⁇ 10 6 MCF-7 cells, with or without Ang-2 antibodies, or control agents were subcutaneously injected into the right flank of the nude mice. Five mice were used for each test group. All the mAbs tested were adjusted to a concentration of 100 ⁇ g/ml.
  • Matrigel plugs were harvested and scored for blood vessel density. For this purpose, cervical dislocation of mice under deep anesthesia was performed. The Matrigel plugs were exposed through removal of the covering skin flap. The Matrigel plugs were then removed and digital images were then recorded. The Matrigel plugs were resected carefully and cut into two parts. One part was snap frozen in TissueTek and the other fixed in buffered formalin. Both parts were then embedded in paraffin for sectioning. Three 5 to 7 ⁇ m thick sections from each mouse were cut and stained with hematoxylin and eosin. The sections were then examined under a phase contrast microscope. Representative photomicrographs were recorded [two frames (100 ⁇ and 400 ⁇ )] and endothelial cell and blood vessel infiltration was recorded.
  • the frozen Matrigel plugs were sectioned (10 ⁇ m sections) in a Cryocut microtome. Two independent sections per mouse were made and used for staining. Sections were blocked with BSA (0.1%) and then treated with monoclonal antibody reactive to mouse. CD31 conjugated to Phycoerythin (dilutions as recommended by the manufacturer). After thorough washings, sections were mounted under anti-fading reagent (Vecta Shield) and observed under a UV microscope using a red filter. Representative Digital images were captured (two images at 100 ⁇ and 200 ⁇ magnification). Nuclei were counterstained with DAPI. Immunofluorescence images of CD31 staining were analyzed by a Skeletinization program.
  • FIGS. 12A and 12B show the effect of anti-Ang-2 antibodies on the number of blood vessels ends ( FIG. 12A ) and blood vessel length ( FIG. 12B ).
  • IgG2 isotype negative control antibody PK16.1.3
  • PK16.1.3 impacted angiogenesis, although this antibody was also found to occasionally interfere with tumor growth in some xenograft models (data not shown).
  • the IgG4 isotype control antibody did not have any effect on the angiogenesis in this model.
  • clones 5.88.3, 3.3.2, 3.19.3 and 5.28.1 significantly inhibited angiogenesis (P ⁇ 0.05, t-test performed by VasculoGen), while others had lesser effects.
  • Ang-2 is expressed by endothelial cells in the tumor, and thus has been considered as a autocrine angiogenic factor.
  • Ang-2 has also been found to be expressed by many types of tumor cells in vitro and in vivo. Except 3.19.3, the mAbs tested here do not cross-react with mouse Ang-2. In this in vivo model, the mAbs only neutralized human Ang-2 produced by the MCF-7 cell, but not the mouse Ang-2. The inhibitory effect of these mAbs suggests that tumor expressed Ang-2 can be a paracrine angiogenesis factor.
  • the overall anti-angiogenic activity of the mAb was partially attributable to the neutralization of the tumor Ang-2, in addition to neutralization of vascular endothelium expressed Ang-2.
  • Anti-Ang-2 mAb clone 3.19.3 not only bound to mouse Ang-2, but also inhibited binding of mouse Ang-2 to human Tie2.
  • the anti-tumor activity of this monoclonal antibody was tested in a mouse xenograft model of human skin epidermoid carcinoma by using the A431 cell line.
  • mAb 3.19.3 significantly delayed A431 xenograft tumor growth.
  • the average tumor volume of the isotype control group reached about 1.5 cm 3 at the end of the experiment, whereas the growth rate of the treated group significantly slowed after Day 10, and was about 0.5 cm 3 at the end.
  • the volume ration of T/C is 1/3, indicating a 66% inhibition of the growth.
  • mAb 3.19.3 may not be limited to its blockage of Ang-2/Tie2 association and consequent signaling. As indicated in Example 7, this mAb is also found to bind to Ang-1 and block binding of Ang-1 to Tie2. Interestingly, the in mAb also blocks Ang-1-induced Tie2 phosphorylation. It is known that Ang-1 is involved in vessel maturation. When comparing the potency of mAb 3.19.3 for its inhibition in the binding of Ang-1 versus Ang-2 to Tie2 (Example 12), it is apparent that mAb 3.19.3 is predominantly an Ang-2 antagonist. Without being bound to any particular theory, it is possible that dual blockage of signaling from Ang-2 and Ang-1 impairs angiogenesis and consequently tumor growth.
  • Ang-2 is upregulated by angiogenic endothelial cells, and is correlated to progression of many types of tumor. It is reasonable to postulate that a monoclonal antibody that blocks binding of Ang-2/Tie2 association will be able to inhibit angiogenesis, and therefore, inhibit the tumor growth. In this experiment, the therapeutic efficacy of an anti-Ang-2 mAb was demonstrated. Since mAb 3.19.3 cross-reacts and neutralizes mouse Ang-2/Tie2 signaling, this mAb was chosen to demonstrate the in vivo efficacy of inhibiting tumor growth.
  • the anti-tumor activity of the 3.19.3 monoclonal antibody was tested in mouse xenograft models of human cancer by using 9 different tumor cell lines.
  • Colon adenocarcinoma (Lovo, SW480, Colo205, HT29, HCT116), epidermoid carcinoma (A431), lung carcinoma (Calu-6) and breast adenocarcinoma (MCF7, MDA-MB-231) cells were cultured in flasks as routine until the cells reached sub-confluence. Immunodeficient 7-10 week old female mice were employed for model development. The cells were harvested, suspended in Matrigel, and then injected subcutaneously into each mouse. The mice were then randomized into cohorts containing 10-12 mice. The mice were injected intraperitoneally with 0.5 mg of mAb 3.19.3, or isotype control antibody, and twice per week thereafter. For all experiments, isotype control antibody treatment was included.
  • mAb 3.19.3 showed significant activity in all 7 xenograft subcutaneous models tested and both orthotopic models with non-optimized dose and schedule.
  • the MDA-MB-231 tumor tissue was analyzed via CD31+ vessel staining density.
  • CD31 staining density was measured by threshold and by manual grid counting methods. Eleven tumors per group and at least 20 images per tumor were analyzed.
  • treatment of mice with 3.19.3 antibody decreased the density of CD31 staining by 40% compared to a control IgG antibody. This was statistically significant with both counting methods, threshold (p ⁇ 0.015) and manual grid counting (p ⁇ 0.00004) by 1-tailed T-test. Similar CD31+ vessel counts were made on ex-vivo tissue for the Colo205 and HCT116 xenografts. These samples also exhibited a similar significant reduction in CD31+ vessels.
  • human patients are dosed periodically with an effective amount of anti-Ang-1 and anti-Ang-2 antibody. At periodic times during the treatment, the human patients are monitored to determine whether tumor growth is inhibited. Following treatment, it is found that patients undergoing treatment with the anti-Ang-1 and anti-Ang-2 antibody in comparison to patients that are not treated have relative improvements in one or more of the following including but not limited to smaller tumors, delayed time to progression or longer time of survival.
  • An Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for the detection of Ang-1 or Ang-2 antigen in a sample may be developed.
  • wells of a microtiter plate such as a 96-well microtiter plate or a 384-well microtiter plate, are adsorbed for several hours with a first fully human monoclonal antibody directed against Ang-1 and Ang-2.
  • the immobilized antibody serves as a capture antibody for any of the antigen that may be present in a test sample.
  • the wells are rinsed and treated with a blocking agent such as milk protein or albumin to prevent nonspecific adsorption of the analyte.
  • test sample suspected of containing the antigen or with a solution containing a standard amount of the antigen.
  • a sample may be, for example, a serum sample from a subject suspected of having levels of circulating antigen considered to be diagnostic of a pathology.
  • the wells After rinsing away the test sample or standard, the wells are treated with a second fully human monoclonal anti-Ang-1 and anti-Ang-2 antibody that is labeled by conjugation with biotin. A monoclonal or mouse or other species origin might also be used.
  • the labeled anti-Ang-1 and anti-Ang-2 antibody serves as a detecting antibody.
  • the wells After rinsing away excess second antibody, the wells are treated with avidin-conjugated horseradish peroxidase (HRP) and a suitable chromogenic substrate. The concentration of the antigen in the test samples is determined by comparison with a standard curve developed from the standard samples.
  • HRP horseradish peroxidase
  • This ELISA assay provides a highly specific and very sensitive assay for the detection of the Ang-1 and Ang-2 antigen in a test sample.
  • a sandwich ELISA is developed to quantify Ang-1 and Ang-2 levels in human serum.
  • the two fully human monoclonal anti-Ang-2 antibodies from the sandwich ELISA recognizes different epitopes on the Ang-2 molecule.
  • monoclonal antibodies of mouse or other species origin may be used.
  • the ELISA could be but is not necessarily performed as follows: 50 ⁇ L of capture anti-Ang-2 antibody in coating buffer (0.1 M NaHCO 3 , pH 9.6) at a concentration of 2 ⁇ g/mL is coated on ELISA plates (Fisher). After incubation at 4° C. overnight, the plates are treated with 200 ⁇ L of blocking buffer (0.5% BSA, 0.1% Tween 20, 0.01% Thimerosal in PBS) for 1 hour at 25° C.
  • the plates are washed (3 ⁇ ) using 0.05% Tween 20 in PBS (washing buffer, WB). Normal or patient sera (Clinomics, Bioreclaimation) are diluted in blocking buffer containing 50% human serum. The plates are incubated with serum samples overnight at 4° C., washed with WB, and then incubated with 100 ⁇ L/well of biotinylated detection anti-Ang-2 antibody for 1 hour at 25° C. After washing, the plates are incubated with HRP-Streptavidin for 15 minutes, washed as before, and then treated with 100 ⁇ L/well of o-phenylenediamine in H 2 O 2 (Sigma developing solution) for color generation.
  • the reaction is stopped with 50 ⁇ L/well of H 2 SO 4 (2M) and analyzed using an ELISA plate reader at 492 nm. Concentration of Ang-2 antigen in serum samples is calculated by comparison to dilutions of purified Ang-2 antigen using a four parameter curve fitting program.

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